making tunes only on hardware

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:21 pm

I work with a great friend of mine on his gear, I don't really know how to use the racks, but the writing process is pretty collaborative, and then that gear is routed through a 24 channel mixer and out to a large PA, 18"s and 15"s.. and we use those beats for backing a vocalist we work with to do live sets.

we've got 3 rack mount samplers, 3 rack mount synth banks, 3 delay boxes + a reverb box, and a yamaha drum machine and a small yamaha midi sequencer to get everything going.. dub that out on the board.. shit sounds huge on the PA

ehcsztein · Post by **ehcsztein** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:12 pm

Misk wrote: tbh, i like messing with the electribes, but i dont feel like they sound "produced" enough alone... to stand up against the dubstep of today.

But they are easy to to get sounding good on just about any PA from my experience.

I have the older ones (ER/EA/EM) and with a bit of EQing on the mixing board they can push big sound through a system. I oft push a louder cleaner sound than the DJs (both digital and vinyl.)

I am just starting to fiddle around with recording tracks and am starting to see that I need to tweak my compositions a bit for recording purposes. Digital recording is a lot less forgiving than a PA

The trick is really tuning things for the medium Live vs. Recording etc

misk · Post by **misk** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:58 pm

oh i mean, the emx and esx sound fat. they sound super fat, as in, vinyl doesnt sound as fat as this. Like, beats from the damn SOURCE! but still, theres things i can't really do on them like massive overproduced luscious pads, and crazy effects and things like that, unless i resample some nutty wobble and load it into the sampler. I'm working on a new and improved live set, so we'll see though. it's all about refining, isnt it.

ehcsztein · Post by **ehcsztein** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:02 pm

Misk wrote:it's all about refining, isnt it.

truth

kani · Post by **kani** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:54 pm

just started messing around with a old Korg Ms-20 and a Roland 808.. kinda just modulate the thing to get different sounds over a period and then go back and grab snippits to use.
MS-20 has potential, need a good sub monitor to see what that wub wub wub sound really sounds like..

crytek · Post by **crytek** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:25 pm

Misk wrote:yeah, i've been rocking the korg electribe mx and sx for a while now. both are pretty dope, although limited. But thats the best thing about hardware! You've gotta really dig deep to work out some tunes, and plan ahead, but you can make some sick stuff if you get into it. Also, the process of arranging on hardware makes you approach things from an entirely different angle.

i love it, its so minimal!

out of curiosity, what's your kit like?

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:43 pm

i really wanna get an mpc to do just this

misk · Post by **misk** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:04 am

crytek wrote:
Misk wrote:yeah, i've been rocking the korg electribe mx and sx for a while now. both are pretty dope, although limited. But thats the best thing about hardware! You've gotta really dig deep to work out some tunes, and plan ahead, but you can make some sick stuff if you get into it. Also, the process of arranging on hardware makes you approach things from an entirely different angle.

i love it, its so minimal!
out of curiosity, what's your kit like?

oh, the two newer electribes, the mx and the sx, as well as a few mixers, some turntables, the usual DJ stuff. KRK v6s (the first ones, the GOOD ones

), an intel 08 imac, an old powerbook g4, roland jv-1080 and some old roland sampler keyboard that i never use because i got it for free and its a massive beast that isnt worth breaking it out for.

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