Help me become Pharrell or Danger Mouse

[El Diablo]

Ikon,

"you can replicate your own version of these with an MBOX. You could probably even do some with samples and FruityLoops, but I don't reccomend it. I suggest once you get the equipments, find beats that you think are the best that are ALSO widely popular. Emulate these beats "in your own words" or in this case, with your own style."

WTF is all this BS? I am not gonna be copying other people's beats or having some POS derivative style.

Please don't bother w/ this thread if this is the kind of crap you're going to bring.

[El Diablo]

Vyse,

No. You have proven yourself to be a complete dumb-ass with your posts, and there's no room for buffoons in my organization.

[traz]

I have a friend who makes beats, and I will be picking his brain asap. I fully support this endeavour of yours El D, and I wish you the best

[Vyse]

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Vyse,

No. You have proven yourself to be a complete dumb-ass with your posts, and there's no room for buffoons in my organization.

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I would never want to join your "organization." I was asking to take bets on you failing / succeeding, with me taking the failure side.

[El Diablo]

traz: Thanks.

Vyse: Lies. You know you want in.

[PITTM]

is this really going to limited to software? you cant have a full analog double-turntable setup?

rj

[El Diablo]

RJ,

Oh dude, turntables and vinyl will most definitely be involved.

However, I think I will need software as well, and will definitely need software to become the king of mash-ups, part of this that people seem to be overlooking.

[David H]

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RJ,

Oh dude, turntables and vinyl will most definitely be involved.

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If this is the case then you have no chance of staying under $500. But since you blow your nose with money, this shouldn't be an issue.

[dibbs]

I assume you have a good computer, that's a start. You'll also need a good external sound card.

For software I'd suggest Reason, it has some awesome versatile synths and a fun semi-intuitive drum machine. You might want to pick up Recycle too, another PH program that chops up sounds and you can throw the diced pieces into Reason.

Reason can't record though (3.0 might not positive), so you'll want another program, like Sonar or Cubase, which will also perform better to compose all the pieces. As many have mentioned Protools is the industry standard but costs much more and as a beginner you'll be getting the same out of cheaper alternatives.


Here's a link to some Cakewalk (Sonar) stuff, I take it you already looked the Propellerhead stuff, you can download the demo and play with it.
http://store.cakewalk.com/b2cus/cate...x?categoryID=9

Keep in mind many pieces people make with Reason etc sound very amatuerish because they use stock sounds, but with experience you can make incredible stuff with them.

These programs can be found for free too if you know where to look.

For turntables you don't have to get Technics 1200s as for your purposes there are probably sufficient much cheaper alternatives, but they are the industry standard. I dont know if youre going this route though but if so feel free to ask for deck/mixer recommendations.

Have fun/good luck.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

my buddy at work (also a DJ with mad skillz, also appears on a Wilco album!!) has a good buddy who is the producer for this guy. He's the Jay Z of Japan! I mean that's something.

I'll hook you up, yo.