What do they make their beats on?

[Fannypakks]

Does anyone know what program they use to make their beats on? I understand that on Ill Communication and Check Your Head they used mostly live beats. And I know Mark Nishita does a lot of keyboards and shit. But I know on Hello Nasty and To The 5 Boroughs it got a little more digital. Does ANYONE know what the beats are made on? I make beats myself and I'm interested.

[camo]

the back of old saucepans (?)

[Weezman]

the subway trains and tunnels in NY.....crazy stuff like that. (y)

they ought to come to Chicago, and experiment with our L trains! :D

[Sir SkratchaLot]

A lot of the shit on their first four albums is just strait up loops. You take the drum break of the album you're sampling and then eq it or whatever and there you have it. I'm not sure exactly what equipment they were using but its more likely than not hardware samplers and sequencers. They have money so they can probably get whatever they want as far as hardware (drum machines to generate the drums, samplers to record and playback samples from records and whatnot, and sequencers to put it all together). The common ones are the 808, the SP12, the SP1200, the MPC2000, the Korg Triton, etc., but I'm sure the Beasties had the resources to pretty much fuck around with whatever they wanted to. There's just a ton of shit out there with just drum machines, samplers, and sequencers, and when you get into effects and equalizers and compressors it gets mind boggling. I know Adrock did a lot of the beats on Hello Nasty with the SP12, just chopping stuff up and flipping more than strait looping samples. The hardware samplers and squencers are usually more hands-on and intuitive, and they also give certain sounds that are hard to reproduce.

To the Five Burroughs was put together with computer software. I think they used Pro-Tools as their main program. The advantage with the software is that its usually more advanced and gives you more options in chopping, sequencing, etc. The disadvantage is that you loose some of the sonic uniqueness of using hardware equipment and the process isn't as hands-on.

[midzi]

BEASTIE BOYS' OSCILLOSCOPE STUDIOS

Control Room A

COMPUTER, DAW, RECORDING HARDWARE:

Apple Mac G4 computer
Digidesign Pro Tools HD system
Emagic Logic Audio software

CONSOLE, MIXERS, INTERFACES:

Digidesign ProControl control surface
Neve 8058 MK I console, 28 I/O w/31102 mic preamp/EQ
Studer A80 ¼-inch 2-track tape machine

SYNTHS, MODULES, SOFTWARE, PLUG-INS, INSTRUMENTS:

Moog Music Minimoog synth
Propellerhead Reason, ReCycle software

MICS, MIC PREAMPS, EQs, COMPRESSORS, EFFECTS:

AKG C 414 mics (3)
Alesis MidiVerb 4 effects unit
dbx 160A, 166 compressor/limiter; Subharmonic Synthesizer rack unit
DeltaLab Effectron II delay
DigiTech RDS-1900 delay, TSR-24S digital multi-effects unit
Langevin Dual-Channel Electro-Optical Limiter
Lexicon Alex Digital Effects Processor
Maestro Echoplex tape delay
Manley Stereo Variable-Mu Limiter/Compressor
MXR 126 Flanger/Doubler
NCM Vocoder
EMT 162 plate reverb
PreSonus DigiMax LT 8-channel mic preamp w/ADAT Lightpipe output
Purple Audio MC77 compressor/limiter
Seven Woods Audio Ursa Major Space Station SST-206 effects unit
Summit Audio EQF-100 EQ, TPA-200B preamp
TC Electronic TC 2290 digital delay
Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1 preamp
Yamaha REV7 digital reverb, SPX90 digital effects processor

MONITORS:

Auratone speakers
Genelec 1031s, 7060A subwoofer
Yamaha NS10s

Control Room B/mixdown

Apple Mac G4 computer
dbx 902 de-essers (6)
Digidesign Pro Tools|24 Mixplus system, 888|24 I/Os
Lexicon 960L reverb
Neve 1100 mic pres (6)
Purple Audio MC77 compressor/limiter
Tapco 4400 spring reverb

from http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_future_flashback/index.html
on this site there is also an interview in which they talk about recording

[YoungRemy]

Neve 1100 mic pres (6)




"Coming down the wire to the Neve mic pre..."

"nothing sounds quite like an 808..."

"I'm a Benihana chef on the SP12..."

[Hello_nasty]

BEASTIE BOYS' OSCILLOSCOPE STUDIOS

Control Room A

COMPUTER, DAW, RECORDING HARDWARE:

Apple Mac G4 computer
Digidesign Pro Tools HD system
Emagic Logic Audio software

CONSOLE, MIXERS, INTERFACES:

Digidesign ProControl control surface
Neve 8058 MK I console, 28 I/O w/31102 mic preamp/EQ
Studer A80 ¼-inch 2-track tape machine

SYNTHS, MODULES, SOFTWARE, PLUG-INS, INSTRUMENTS:

Moog Music Minimoog synth
Propellerhead Reason, ReCycle software

MICS, MIC PREAMPS, EQs, COMPRESSORS, EFFECTS:

AKG C 414 mics (3)
Alesis MidiVerb 4 effects unit
dbx 160A, 166 compressor/limiter; Subharmonic Synthesizer rack unit
DeltaLab Effectron II delay
DigiTech RDS-1900 delay, TSR-24S digital multi-effects unit
Langevin Dual-Channel Electro-Optical Limiter
Lexicon Alex Digital Effects Processor
Maestro Echoplex tape delay
Manley Stereo Variable-Mu Limiter/Compressor
MXR 126 Flanger/Doubler
NCM Vocoder
EMT 162 plate reverb
PreSonus DigiMax LT 8-channel mic preamp w/ADAT Lightpipe output
Purple Audio MC77 compressor/limiter
Seven Woods Audio Ursa Major Space Station SST-206 effects unit
Summit Audio EQF-100 EQ, TPA-200B preamp
TC Electronic TC 2290 digital delay
Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1 preamp
Yamaha REV7 digital reverb, SPX90 digital effects processor

MONITORS:

Auratone speakers
Genelec 1031s, 7060A subwoofer
Yamaha NS10s

Control Room B/mixdown

Apple Mac G4 computer
dbx 902 de-essers (6)
Digidesign Pro Tools|24 Mixplus system, 888|24 I/Os
Lexicon 960L reverb
Neve 1100 mic pres (6)
Purple Audio MC77 compressor/limiter
Tapco 4400 spring reverb

from http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_future_flashback/index.html
on this site there is also an interview in which they talk about recording


Wow. Nice find. (y)

[Fannypakks]

Well thanks for the help. All that was actually useful and I did understand it.

[dirtydan11]

"Coming down the wire to the Neve mic pre..."

"nothing sounds quite like an 808..."

"I'm a Benihana chef on the SP12..."

"Head to the studio turn on the Pro Tools"

[boys_beastie]

Propellerhead Reason

yay

[Weezman]

BEASTIE BOYS' OSCILLOSCOPE STUDIOS

Control Room A

COMPUTER, DAW, RECORDING HARDWARE:

Apple Mac G4 computer
Digidesign Pro Tools HD system
Emagic Logic Audio software

CONSOLE, MIXERS, INTERFACES:

Digidesign ProControl control surface
Neve 8058 MK I console, 28 I/O w/31102 mic preamp/EQ
Studer A80 ¼-inch 2-track tape machine

SYNTHS, MODULES, SOFTWARE, PLUG-INS, INSTRUMENTS:

Moog Music Minimoog synth
Propellerhead Reason, ReCycle software

MICS, MIC PREAMPS, EQs, COMPRESSORS, EFFECTS:

AKG C 414 mics (3)
Alesis MidiVerb 4 effects unit
dbx 160A, 166 compressor/limiter; Subharmonic Synthesizer rack unit
DeltaLab Effectron II delay
DigiTech RDS-1900 delay, TSR-24S digital multi-effects unit
Langevin Dual-Channel Electro-Optical Limiter
Lexicon Alex Digital Effects Processor
Maestro Echoplex tape delay
Manley Stereo Variable-Mu Limiter/Compressor
MXR 126 Flanger/Doubler
NCM Vocoder
EMT 162 plate reverb
PreSonus DigiMax LT 8-channel mic preamp w/ADAT Lightpipe output
Purple Audio MC77 compressor/limiter
Seven Woods Audio Ursa Major Space Station SST-206 effects unit
Summit Audio EQF-100 EQ, TPA-200B preamp
TC Electronic TC 2290 digital delay
Tech 21 SansAmp PSA-1 preamp
Yamaha REV7 digital reverb, SPX90 digital effects processor

MONITORS:

Auratone speakers
Genelec 1031s, 7060A subwoofer
Yamaha NS10s

Control Room B/mixdown

Apple Mac G4 computer
dbx 902 de-essers (6)
Digidesign Pro Tools|24 Mixplus system, 888|24 I/Os
Lexicon 960L reverb
Neve 1100 mic pres (6)
Purple Audio MC77 compressor/limiter
Tapco 4400 spring reverb

from http://remixmag.com/artists/remix_future_flashback/index.html
on this site there is also an interview in which they talk about recording


all this and........


50 CUPS OF COFFEE....and you know ITS ON!!! :p :) :D (y)

[laurie_hammy]

They make there beats by gettin the boom mic out and takin out of the submarine, and recording mateing wales.

[zombievomit]

"Coming down the wire to the Neve mic pre..."

"nothing sounds quite like an 808..."

"I'm a Benihana chef on the SP12..."

you got me all rapping the latter to those verses.