What does Dr. Dre use to make beats?
Dr. Dre has been working on his album Detox for over 10 years, making it one of the most highly anticipated albums in hip hop history. The Doctor is a perfectionist, with a distinct style and sound - often copied but never outdone. Dr. Dre revealed his methods to Scratch:
Q: "Can you talk a bit about some of the equipment you use?"
Dre: "I love using the
[Akai] MPC3000. I like setting up like four or five different MPC3000's, so I don't have to keep changing disks. So I have them all lined up, and I have different drum sounds in each one, and then we use one for sequencing the keyboard."
Q: "Can tell me a bit about your process of recording drums?"
Dre: "We really take a lot of time on getting the right drum sounds. We EQ the drums before we sample them into the MPC, and then once we come up with the track, we spend a lot of time EQing the drums before we record them into Pro Tools. We take quite a bit of time to get that right, because I know it's one of the things that people like about my music. I've used the same drum sounds on a couple of different songs on one album before but you'd never be able to tell the difference because of the EQ."
Q: "You mentioned Pro Tools."
Dre: "I had Pro Tools right when it came out, but I wasn't a fan of it because I lost a little bit of my low end before they perfected it. So, I used to just use Pro Tools for sequencing the albums. But now I think they've perfected it enough for me to roll with it, so I've been using it quite a bit."
Q: "But you're still using a lot of analog keyboards, I saw a Wurlitzer in the studio, a Fender Rhodes?"
Dre: "Yeah, I love the old school sounds. ARP String Ensemble, Rhodes, old school Clavinet, the whole shit. I'm a big keyboard fan. I don't really dig working with samples because you're so limited when you sample."
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