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  1. FTdub

    Mac ProTools Users

    How can I route iTunes to play through the digidesign soundcard? We are using the digi002 and it is dope, but any audio other than Protools can only play in the cpu's built in speaker. Do you know of a way to get those other apps to play through a digidesign soundcard that outputs to our...
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    How Often Do You Read?

    On a related topic over the course of the last 3 months I have been reading more literature as opposed to the industry, sports, entertainment rags that I used to read. I'm reading a ton of biographies, historical fiction, memoirs, and man it has increased my lyrical writing fivefold. My brain...
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    Muslim Rappers.

    Q-Tip
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    your first bought record?

    The first vinyl I bought was MC Breed- No Future in your frontin
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    What label would you wanna be signed to?

    stones throw, def jux, or rhymesayers
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    what song u heard while u smoked your first weed?

    Insane in the membrane for me
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    What it Do? What it Does? What it Did?

    Welcome bro I'm over in Funkytown, you found a dope site
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    For the DJs!!

    That looks insanely tight
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    Scartown Stick Up Nasty North

    is scartown scranton? Scrap-paper? Am I watching too much of The Office?
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    chopped and screwed

    I'm in Texas and I personally don't dig the chopped and screwed sound, but my students all want to learn to do it. I have handful of guys that are good enough now that local acts acts are payin them to chop and screw their cd's. We use either soundforge or audition. open the tracks, screw them...
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    jay dee aka J-dilla, passed away(RIP)

    damn, I knew he was sick and doin shows from a chair, but this was still unexpected. Buy donuts.
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    Go Shawty, it's ya lawsuit!

    word. Let thim canibalize themselves, and the true heads will reside underground.
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    Go Shawty, it's ya lawsuit!

    If this dude wins this suit no emcee can quote, reference, or paraphrase existing raps, or any vocals on any other record. Can of worms friends. On one hand it frightens me, on the other, this may spell the end of corporate hip hop, and thus provide a return to the bygone grass roots culture...
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    Go Shawty, it's ya lawsuit!

    January 23, 2006 A lawyer representing Lil’ Joe Wein Music has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against 50 Cent for using the line “Go shorty, it’s your birthday” at the beginning of the rapper’s 2003 hit, “In Da Club.” In the lawsuit filed in Miami federal court last week, Richard...
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    classic movies

    goonies, hoosiers, cloak and dagger, poltergeist, naked gun, red dawn
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    Audition OR Forge? and 1 other thing

    Audition is more versatile, like you said you can record vocals over tracks in it. For chopping both are good. For years I used SoundForge for chops, but I found that the selection utilities in Audition are a little smoother. I find myself accidentally losing selections in SoundForge more...
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    Who's your Fav. prod. and why?

    Blaze, Alchemist, and Madlib are real nice, but Im feelin Dilla. He can be smooth, rough, or whatever. Great basslines and filtering.
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    Reverb On Drums

    I put reverb on everything, i just vary the amount for each sound based on the depth that i want it to have in the soundscape. Snares always get the most.
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    Acid Users

    I use 4.0 religiously, but I am learning Pro Tools LE 7.0 and am considering switching over to mac. I use acid in conjunction with hardware sequencers cuz its great for fine tuning. I record all of the vocals into Acid, never a problem. I know a handful of producers that use the program...
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    Mixing a White MC

    I'm sure the vocal tone is more a function of height and weight than skin or eye color.
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