THINK JUST BECAUSE IM PRETTY IM SCARED TO GET MY HANDS GRITTY:
AAAAAAaaahhhh!!! YA GIRL DONE DID IT.
WHAT I SAY? 08...? THE YEAR AINT EVEN GOT IT FEET WET. I FINISHED IT. MY OWN HOME RECORDING STUDIO. EQUIPPED WITH...
- BX5A STUDIO MONITORS
- PROTOOLS MBOX2
- SHURE SM7B MICROPHONE (SUPPOSEDLY THE SAME MIC MICHAEL JACKSON USED TO RECORD THRILLER) HEY BUT DON'T GET ME TO LYING. THAT *@ SOUND GREAT, THOUGH
- FL STUDIO 7 PRODUCERS EDITION (THE MOST SLEPT PROGRAM EVER)
- WALLS FULLY PADDED WITH AURALEX SOUND ABSORPTION PANELS, BASS TRAPS, MO PADS AND THE WHOLE NINE.
- M-AUDIO 88 KEY SYNTHESIZER
- I EVEN BUILT MY OWN BOOTH WITH MY PREC...
Painful and bloody:
I made some true beat loops at the music lab at Cal State by recording a Tribe Called Quest sample onto reel to reel. Rock the reels over the playback head to find the beat break beginning and end, mark and cut with a razor, then use splice tape to loop it. Had to use a mic stand and a pencil to keep tension on the loop while I dubbed it onto a cassette. Add some bass, trippy analog electronic beeping and rap vocals and you have my first studio track in 1994, The Man with the Actual Dope. It had a sample of a TV news reporter saying "the man with the actual dope" and the vocals actually had to...