Yeah, I just looked up a summary of what it is and it seems like it's basically a swizz army knife of mastering tools. I think I'll start using it instead of the fruity multiband compressor.

Other than the fact that you probably have tons of hardware that I don't know how to use and you'll probably use terms that make me say, "what da fuck is dat?" lol, but I'm sure that we could make something pretty great.

scruffy said:

guess ill mention this:

remember earlier when i said youd have to spend a couple grand on studio shit to match the setup i use?  i failed to take into account depreciation.

i just ebayed it, and the workstation is depressingly cheap.

i bought the shit new for a godawful amount of money.  a cd burner with it, this being back when full feature cd burners cost like 400 bucks. 

fuckin pcs. 

Doesn't it fucking suck when that shit happens? Like when you buy a video game brand new and then a month or two later it drops $20 in price. I don't play video games much anymore, but I have noticed that that is happening a lot with video games.

That place I was talking about wasn't just a music studio, it was basically a basic studio for tons of different arts. They were also a record label too, so they might have some good equipment that they stash somewhere on Fridays since the people record for free on those days. Reserve the good shit for the people that actually make them money. Not sure though.

Yeah, I know there was this one chick who'd come in and record with 4-5 different mics and it was just her singing while playing acoustic guitar. I did notice that it was really tricky to get the mics positioned just right, if you don't you'd have too many guitar sounds in the back ground of one or too many vocals in the other, must take some skill to get them positioned right. Or perhaps not, I have no clue. I wanna learn this though, I eventually want to get to Kanye West status and start hiring full orchestra bands to play in my shit. That would be be dope. Would have to perhaps learn a few musical terms, learn to actually write music to get them to perform exactly what's needed to fit the song. It's all pipe dreams for now.

Man, you get the exact opposite of what I've got when it comes to people trying to get me to produce for them. Every time I end up getting some dude who thinks that I'm going to make them some kind of million dollar song, who can't even rap. Somebody who wants beats and expects me to contact them, what company out there randomly goes, "I think this consumer is ready for my product!!!" and just goes out and calls people? I'm not Comcast damn it, I'm pizza hut, you have to call me to make the order so I can deliver. The only person that I can say had their shit together was this dude from a punk rock band that wanted me to go to his studio to see what we could make. Unluckily I got my phone with his number in it stolen the day he wanted me to come over. I was really interested to see what we could do, perhaps get some live instrumentation to work with.

scruffy said:

i dont think i could ever write for an ensemble.  i can barely read sheet music.  hell, the most classical music training ive ever recieved was music class, back in school.  and i fuckin hated that. 

that shit would be fresh to do, though. 

Yeah, the most experience I have with music sheets is from music class in Jr. High with the snare drum. I pretty much forgot most of it too. Could probably pick it right back up pretty quickly if I tried though, just need time to jog the memory. That teacher had a pretty good sound set up in his class room, multiple mics and shit. I think he even had a machine that could listen to music and write it in sheet form, I wonder how well it actually worked.

Read on how Kanye does his music, it's all pretty interesting. Dude definitely raised the bar on hip hop production. Brings in full reputable orchestras and shit like that. I learned that he actually intentionally dumbed down his lyrics because he felt that not enough people could get into his live shows.

scruffy said:

heh.

thats like when you get offered a slot at some show that mc nondescript is putting together, then at the end of the conversation says, 'okay.  so, gimme a hundred bucks, and ill put you on!' 

whaaat?!

numbnuts, i dont pay to perform.  if youre looking to recoup off the other artists instead of tickets sales, what does that say about your worth? 

god, i hate that shit. 

I've never performed live yet. Honestly when I first got into production (which was about 4-5 years ago) I thought that people had to pay to play a gig so he probably assumed you knew nothing and tried to take advantage of you, that or he's legitimately an idiot.