Chronic over 2001 all day

The SSL/pic in OP is a mixing desk. You don’t make beats on it, you use it to mix & to run microphones through it.

The beats were probably made on MPC’s and stuff, and then dre mixed them through this

Ok so it was only mixed on it

I feel dumb

I don’t believe that’s true/possible, I can’t say I know a ton about this console but to my knowledge, making beats on them isn’t much of a thing. The synths could’ve been recorded directly into the console but the sampling had to have been done on a sampler and then they would record the tracks from the sampler into that thing to add some instrumentation and mix

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Gardner

He did GRODT too.

100%. Producers aren’t really meant to know how to use them tbh. They’re why you get an engineer or someone who’s job and life has been studying these to make it efficient

Might also have sound dated cause I heard 2001 in its entirety before the chronic.

Friend gifted me the 2001 album for my bday when it came out cause the singles were huge all over trl n s*** but I was still mostly an underground/backpack rap fan

Then started deep diving into older street rap classics around 2005, then ti king came out and I started to do d**** and was full on street/drug dealer rap after that

Fr all of this is always confusing to me

Like producers used to make beats on pro tools and all that

I think in that era where pro tools became the standard for recording (late 90s early 00) hip hop producers generally weren’t making beats on it. They made the beats in a sampler, then it would get put into a daw where the rapper would record and engineers do their thing

I remember when people used to s*** on fl studio and would use it as an insult for beats they thought was trash "this some fruity loops trash"

The shift started around the early 10s I think.

9th wonder the original fruity loops producer

Your most likely right lol but I don’t think he could’ve perfected those beats the way he did with any other console. Pretty sure they mix blockbuster movies with s*** like this.

was gonna say this but i wasn't sure if there was anyone of note before him i couldn't remember

Yea new producers like lex and all that generation probably came in the game using them and older beatmakers had to adapt

I wonder if hit boy was in the studio showing ye how to draw patterns on fl lmao

Had homies using fruity loops and Sony acid and s*** back in like 04 too

Mike Dean 100% would know

I think he started using it in 2004 so he was probably the earliest, s*** was impossible to use back then

And GRODT is well made af too so I’m not surprised. Some of the production on their would prob sound super dated if the mixing wasn’t so great

You can make beats on it but it’s a pain to use for that so yea they were probably sample based producers or they had gear in the studio to record on and bounce the audio on pro tools

I'm checking his credit list and most of the albums and singles I've heard are very well mastered and clean. You are definitely right

some producers swear by pro tools. they got midi and stuff now too. i can barely do easy easy s*** in pro tools so i bet the learning curve for actually making good stuff is rough

Well yeah, I’m sure it was a big part of the mixing. The mastering engineer probably deserves a lot of credit too

I wonder what was used for Compton, because I think that sounds even better than the Chronics

Yeah I know, you can make beats on it but it’s not a beat friendly daw and in that era everyone seemed to be making beats on hardware, samplers and keyboards whether you look at Kanye, Timbaland, Dilla, etc

the only producers who still pro tools for beats are the ones who grew up using it lol. most of them would admit that abelton and fl studio are better for making beats though.