| Hip hop music beats use to be a sort of black arts for | | | | these bad boys |
| me. I spent the better half of the 1990's collecting gear | | | | - Sequencer: Let's you compose your beats...often |
| and book after book that allegedly was made to teach | | | | redundant as many samplers have one built in |
| me how to lay down some phat beats. I spent | | | | - Mixer: I'm not talking about a DJ mixer either..I'm talking |
| upwards of 10K dollars in search of the "secret | | | | about a piece of gear that will let the sampler, synth, |
| combination" of gear that would allow my creative | | | | and sequencer plug into, and the sound gets mixed into |
| juices to flow. I had only assumed that if there's | | | | a stereo source. |
| something you don't have the talent to do... just throw | | | | - Multi-Track Recorder: This is what will record the hip |
| some more money at it until it clicks. Obviously there's | | | | hop music beats. |
| some faulty logic going in here, as I'd gotten pretty far | | | | These are the basics of the "old school" hip hop music |
| in debt and still couldn't lay down a decent instrumental. | | | | beats studio. |
| Here is some of the "industry standard" gear that I had | | | | Funny thing is, these days all this gear is completely |
| accumulated. Don't get me wrong, these tools are an | | | | unneeded. As long as you have a decent computer, |
| important part of many studios... but these days most | | | | you can lay down some pretty chunky sounding beats. |
| of them are completely redundant or unnecessary. | | | | Hip hop music beats shouldn't cost your entire life |
| - Sampler: The centerpiece of creating all hip hop | | | | savings to make...how could you possibly enjoy |
| music beats | | | | cranking out some crunk while worrying that your |
| - Synthesizer: Much of the melodic lines came from | | | | latest purchase won't put food in your baby's mouth? |