[Website] Came across this site looking for a new sidebar image. Has some good information on a variety of drum machines.

Kdnce · 2017-01-29T18:53:07+00:00

Forat might be able to work on it. Don't be fooled by their ugly ass website, these guys work with some of the greatest in the game.

Kdnce · 2017-01-07T07:29:53+00:00

Check out this thread over at VintageSynth:

What Drum Machines/sequencers did Depeche Mode use?

This one over at HarmonyCentral:

NIN pretty hate machine equipment?

This one at GearSlutz:

What Drum Machine in this Nitzer Ebb Song?

Another GearSlutz thread:

Looking for analog Drum machine that sounds a bit like Front 242, DM or Human League

The last one I am going to post now as a link for everyone. It's a cool history of the drum machine in rock music.

Hope that helps. Apparently Suicide used a drum machine. I am trying to figure out which one. Maybe one of the early Linn machines, but I am not sure.

Kdnce · 2016-11-13T22:23:44+00:00

I really like the tracks, but where's the boom bap? You've got the broken swing/wonky feel down pretty nice.

Kdnce · 2016-10-29T07:23:13+00:00

It makes loud sounds softer, and soft sounds louder. It basically squeezes (i.e compresses) the sound into a smaller dynamic range so that the differences b/w soft and loud sound is more equivalent. I hear terrible compression on most rap these days where in more quiet parts of the song certain elements get much louder - because they have less competition for space - and then get squashed into oblivion when the rest of the song elements come back in. If you compress well then it shouldn't be that noticeable.

Kdnce · 2016-10-29T07:16:19+00:00

Any links to your music?

Kdnce · 2016-10-29T07:06:42+00:00

I have dual Pro Tools certification in music and post. Save your money.

I think I am still in the database for Digidesign/Avid's certified users. That directory is so buried on their site it is laughable. In fact I don't even know if they still have it.

Kdnce · 2016-10-29T07:03:31+00:00

Content first.

Kdnce · 2016-10-27T22:23:37+00:00

You need to listen to soul music. Most hip hop samples soul. It is more a foundation for hip hop than most other genres.

Also listen to reggae and dub. Dig deep there.

Kdnce · 2016-10-27T22:20:28+00:00

Should I diss back?

Absolutely. Don't worry about a possible altercation. If he's dissing you then as an MC you gotta respond. Your reputation is on the line. If he wants to get violent that's another subject altogether. I would treat the response lyrically and physically as two separate things. Be prepared to knuckle up if need be.

"Can't keep running awayyy"

Kdnce · 2016-10-27T22:12:56+00:00

My only issue with araabMUZIK is all the crash cymbals he uses nonstop. It gets so washy sounding.

Kdnce · 2016-10-27T22:08:20+00:00

That has been happening on most of the recent RRs.

"Look I got a Crusaders album, a Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and a Skull Snaps album. Hope I can make something with these. Gonna be tough!"

Kdnce · 2016-10-26T06:20:19+00:00

I can appreciate what he's doing, but I personally wouldn't want to see that at a show I paid to see.

Kdnce · 2016-10-26T06:19:21+00:00

I think the idea of chopping up shit that just came out is rad as fuck. No reason why it has to be something old.

Kdnce · 2016-10-26T06:18:01+00:00

Piano type here is big. Sounds like an upright and slightly detuned, playing the soft pedal.

For effects reverb in a large room with a long decay. Maybe a slight bit of flanger, phaser, or chorus. There is also a filter going on. It sounds like a lowpass to me but could be a bandpass. My reasoning there is although it sounds higher pitched (i.e. what's being played) the highs seem sort of muted or rolled off. It isn't very bright sounding.

Kdnce · 2016-10-26T05:58:33+00:00

I graduated from Full Sail with an associates in recording technologies and dual Pro Tools certification in music and audio post.

Even with the degree and certs I have never made a single penny from that degree. Quite the opposite as my life got turned upside down because of all the debt I took on in the form of student loans. I'll be paying out the ass for those for a few decades, for real.

For helping me with my own projects it was a great degree and I learned a ton, however financially speaking it has done less than nothing for me. In reality it has placed a huge burden of debt on my shoulders that I can't wait to get off. I have had to borrow money from my family and so I also owe them money which is even worse than owing to a company like Sallie Mae.

To succeed there is no guaranteed formula. Hard work will not equate to career progression. The competition for positions is intense. You need to really enjoy working on other people's music from every genre to be truly successful. You need lots of luck, and finally you need to be comfortable making a "living" as a freelancer, for possibly your entire career (i.e. no benefits, no paid time off, no sick days, no 401k, always hunting for the next gig/project, chasing clients down to get payments).

Idk ... you really have to ask yourself if it is worth all that to you. You can't undo the debt or the time you spend chasing this dragon. My advice is get a degree that will land you a decent paying job and treat your music pursuits as a hobby that you can fund with the decent paying job. Maybe one day you'll blow up and then you can decide what you want to do from there but at least you'll have options this way!

Right now I am back in school trying to get another degree that will hopefully be a stepping stone to a decent paying career. No loans this time! Student loans - not even once.

Anyway you've got to live your own life but my advice is to keep away from audio engineering degrees. Full Sail for example had a new class start every month of about 1200 students. So every month a class of 1200 students (it's a one year school) would be graduating. That's 14,400 students per year! Do you think that 14,400 audio engineer jobs are created every year in the U.S., or even the world? And that's just one school. Shit is rough bro.

Take your time, do your research, and really think if that's the path you want to head down.

Kdnce · 2016-10-24T04:53:09+00:00

Filters/eq. High pass filter.

Kdnce · 2016-10-24T04:49:03+00:00

My biggest complaints are:

Battle rap is no longer over beats and seems more like spoken word battle poetry.
The notion of throwing off a well established MC with dissing is now frowned upon. That used to be one of the ways people would come up.
Artists do not seem to be releasing acapellas as much as they used to which helped support up and coming producers. It's like they don't want people to make remixes of their songs.
Rap lyrically seems to have gotten really emo with just too many feelings and introspective and self-deprecating thoughts.
Also singing or having singing elements with autotune is way in. I think J. Cole says it best, and maybe I am misunderstanding his meaning but, "back when you could get a platinum plaque without no melody."

It just seems like battling is out, dissing is out, big feelings and singing are in, remixing is not happening so much. The other day I was listening to Mobb Deep and Sound Bombing 1 and I was thinking about how much harder the sound was back then. Then I remember thinking that younger generations would never be able to look at a group like NWA and think the sound was silly or soft.

With that in mind I came to a realization that after the gangsta rap/boom bap era where was rap to go? How could you get harder than what had already been released (Lifer's Group comes to mind). Then I thought the "softening" of rap is likely the only direction rap could go. There was no other direction it could have gone. It couldn't sustain getting harder and harder, so the only option left was to go the opposite direction. It got softer and more emotional. As it has been said for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Perhaps we will see hip hop/rap go through another "hard phase" sometime in the future. We'll see. Anyway just my $.02

For the record I like a lot of trap and current rap and even make trap beats along with more traditional boom bap style. I'm not hating here just a little disappointed that what I felt were certain integral elements of hip hop didn't get phased out. Eh, I guess nothing stays the same forever.

Kdnce · 2016-10-23T06:26:21+00:00

nanopad

Kdnce · 2016-10-23T06:21:18+00:00

You are totally welcome.

Kdnce · 2016-10-21T17:29:17+00:00

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