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    Much Props For The Article, Fade!

    Great article i agree 100%
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    Needlez gettin down in the lab

    good video thanks for posting! I need to spend more time on you tube!
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    Focus of the Aftermath Prodution team

    wow that was a great video. Focus is extreamly talented and has a great work flow and style to making beats. Just about anyone with half a flow could sound good on that one!
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    factory or sampled drums

    "it dont matter to me... factory, sampled, internal... dont matter... they all get ran thru the eq and other filters anyway." I would have to agree here. Plus once the drums are layered the sound is different. I like to use both..
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    How long does it take for Production on a Track

    "30 minutes top. If i'm not feeling the beat within the first 5-10 minutes.... i trash that and move on to the next one." I would have to agree with this. I dont trash it but i stop save what i have and move on. It doesnt take to long for me to create the beat and melody but im a tweaker and...
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    Giving away a few Beats....

    That sounds like a good plan. I think everyone has done it at one point in time. If the mcs are talented, charismatic and know lots of people and business like this can be the best thing for you....
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    Crunk Soul Beats

    I like the mesh of styles up until then most crunk beats sounded almost the same to me
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    Club Hip Hop Vs Street and Life based themes

    I get a lot of requests on the east coast for truschool, old school, soulful story telling pete rock, premire type of beats and that really is my preference to listen to but, I make a lot of reggae, house, jazzy beats and some r&b and southern everything. I dont make too much of the clubby stuff...
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    what's good everyone

    welcome!!!
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    recommended tracks for panning examples?

    its funny you should write that i was just sitting here listening to the destineys fullfilled cd from destineys child thinking they have one heck of an engineer I think that entire cd is a great reference point. The panning and different technics used on the vocals and instruments are subtle but...
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    EEEWWWW bad breathe on dah mic

    lol ironically i had never even considered the possibility of this happening to me until i read this post and bam saturday while djing a fashion show in boston the mc practically swallowed my mic and funked it up talk about deja vu this post came right to my mind. LOL how did you clean the mic?
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    RnB Producers

    r&B generally starts with chord progression for me like you listed but sometimes its the drums first or a synth depending
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    Beat Happening By Ken Micallef

    good read!
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    RTAS for PT7 M-Powered

    I have the waves platinum and hands down i think they have the best plugins
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    what sum good effects to put on vocals?

    eq and compression if necesary, delay lightly, flanger on some r&B vocals the microphone modeler from antares works wonders with a decent mic.
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    EEEWWWW bad breathe on dah mic

    this is one of the funniest threads i have ever read on a message board lol oh my goodness. Thats too bad though.....lol
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    house music producers at illmzik?

    I just finished up a whole house/techno/dance mixed cd of tracks i created with the yamaha motif. I am also going to do a couple of house remixes for some artists soon. I mainly do soulful/deep house the motif is great for that
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    Sample BPM slower than Track BPM

    or just get acid if you are working with a sample it does all that for you automatically
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    looking to get more into syncing acapellas to my beats

    I just starting doing remixes recently on the computer. I normally just do them from my turntables by ear. My parter showed me how simple it was and how i was really spinning my wheels. 1. Get mixmiester software- it lines all your songs up by bpm and what key they start in. 2. Get Acid-...
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    Is it possible to be a Tone Deaf Producer????

    i think a producer can be slightly tone def and still make some good songs. Everyones ear is trained differently. I have worked with producers not just beatmakers but producers that have produced and put togeather great songs and song concepts. On some songs though those same producers cannot...
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