After his February Producer’s Corner feature, veteran producer and engineer Mike Dean (Scarface, Kanye West, Dogg Pound, Bun B) offered to answer YOUR questions on production.
Sporadically, the Texas native will respond via a HipHopDX column addressing several of your best questions. The more interest you show, the more it’ll happen.
Please make your questions specific, and submit them to the DX editors via our Contact Us page.
Stay up to date on Mike Dean here.
I’ve been using Fl Studio latley and it’s been going weel enough for me with the program but I can’t seem to figure out how to make a good drum line. the melodies are easy enough for me but the drum lines are brutal on me. How do I make a good drum line? Serpately I’d like to know the bpm speed I’d need to use to make a good beat to rap over.
I’ve been using FL Sudio 7 lately and it’s been going weel enough for me with the melodies but making a good drumline has been VERY hard for me. I can’t seem to wrap my mind around it. How do I make a good drum line? Also, I would like to the approximate bpm speed of a beat with a more West Side feel to it. How do I learn to mix and master at home?
Yo, what do you prefer to do first, start with the beat, then the melody, or doing the melody first, then adding a beat to it?
what software do YOU use to make beats?
How long did it take you to master your beat making and at what age did you start making beats?
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Which machine would you recommend MPC 2000 or “higher”, or RolandMV 8800. And what one live instrument would you recommend to learn.
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What’s the best way to eq a song and make everything sound professional mixing wise with something like cool edit pro 2 ?
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is it better to buy high end hardware or software when lookin for indistry quality sounds? Logic vs Protools?
On a budget of 5000 how would prioritize what you buy in order to maximize the product. The goal is to produce, record, and sell a product?
All horrible questions so far.
so answer one jackhole
“submit them to the DX editors via our Contact Us page.”
smh at you illiterate SOBs.
Nah not illiterabe, just didnt read, get a hug.
I have been using Logic Pro and I like everything it allows me to do, but for the life of me I can’t find a good sounding bass. Any suggestions?
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I love mike dean haven’t heard from him in a while. I just want to know how the hell he’s been and what projects is he working on. This man is one of the baddest in the game.
Where you at Mike Dean?, you got mad questions to answer. Anyway, should be programming my drums like boom boom pow or just go with the boom boom bap? Cuz everytime the black eyed peas do it those wiggers get paid.
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Listen, Dr., I have been trying to create a poly-synth with enough reverb so that it magically creates a digital knife that causes real life effects, and put it on a 808 based drumline beat. My goal is to get this instrumental to Lil Wayne, and when he hears it, the knife created from synth will appear and stab him, and keep stabbing him as long as the beat is playing. All I get is a plastic spork, though. Am I doing something wrong? Should I add more echo relay effects, or maybe eq the synth better? Maybe more mono layers? Pls help, I really want Lil Wayne stabbed, thanks 🙂
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