How is Dr. Dre's mixing so much better than everybody else's?

[Jean Jacket]

Next Episode still sounds clean.

 

[Da King]

How does he do it?!

I was bumping 2001 today and it remains the GOAT production album

No album has ever sounded as good as that

 

[FunkDoc1112]

I think the key factor is the fluidity between Dre's composition and mixing.

If you handed him an instrumental with 15 tracks on it, he wouldn't just wave his wand and make the track come to life.. .

Dude's biggest strength, at least from the mid 90s on, is getting the most out of like 1 single instrument, drums bass and crispy hi hats. Every element of his track occupies a distinct place in the frequency spectrum, so the listener can process the minute details of every instrument.

And so he's probably one of the few producers who caters his style specifically towards sonic perfection... his primary goal is compose his beats in a way that allows for the perfect mix.

People talk about the difference between a producer and a beat maker... in hip hop, I think 99% of musicians in hip hop are beat makers.. they learn all the mixing techniques to make their beats come to life, but they see it as a secondary stage in the process. Dre is a producer first.

Exactly. I've actually been looking into this stuff myself recently. The Chronic, imo, is the best sounding hip-hop album ever. Every instrument has its own crisp range that makes everything pop out beautifully. It shines especially on Let Me Ride and Nuthin' But a G Thang. A sonic masterpiece.

Too often today in music in general, not just hip-hop, producers just want everything to be loud as fukk. There's no range or variation, just brickwalled crap. MBDTF is a great album but the piss poor mixing really holds it back.

 

[I love Latina women]

I was bumping 2001 today and it remains the GOAT production album

No album has ever sounded as good as that

I had that album on a couple of days ago, and it's amazing just how ahead of his time he was with that shyt.

It does not sound dated at all.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

These new age beat makers don't have a clue what they're doing

Shyt is just loud and uncompressed

Timbaland was talking about this a while back. A lot of these beatmakers today like Metro Boomin ain't producers, just engineers that can program some hot beats.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

The Infamous is another album with incredible mixing. I think Q-Tip had a big hand in that. The fact that he made SP-1200 drums sound that damn clear and crispy is amazing. A mix can go a long way, because the label had some wack engineers mix the radio edit for Give up the Goods and it sounds like shyt:



Same beat, same drums, same everything, but it sounds like a fukking demo. Whereas the album version BANGS:

 

[I love Latina women]

I need to buy the 2001 instrumental album again. I really wish the instrumentals for The Chronic would be released.

 

[ThaRealness]

Exactly. I've actually been looking into this stuff myself recently. The Chronic, imo, is the best sounding hip-hop album ever. Every instrument has its own crisp range that makes everything pop out beautifully. It shines especially on Let Me Ride and Nuthin' But a G Thang. A sonic masterpiece.

Too often today in music in general, not just hip-hop, producers just want everything to be loud as fukk. There's no range or variation, just brickwalled crap. MBDTF is a great album but the piss poor mixing really holds it back.

Yeah, shyt is bugged out
I don't see what Kanye was going for... He probably just rushed that shyt because he was excited to release it

 

[tonyclifton]

Yeah, shyt is bugged out
I don't see what Kanye was going for... He probably just rushed that shyt because he was excited to release it

I couldn't believe all the praise the gets , and it has nothing to do with the songs, a lot of classics tracks and whatnot

The mixing is so terrible it actually brings the album down 1.5-2 Mics for me. I also used to engineer and mix a lot back in the day so my ears are trained to bleed and get angry when the mix is off

It's so hard to talk to people about it who don't really get it or have the ear


A dre record sounds the same to some people as some mixtape shyt.

Always has me

 

[Rain]

I couldn't believe all the praise the gets , and it has nothing to do with the songs, a lot of classics tracks and whatnot

The mixing is so terrible it actually brings the album down 1.5-2 Mics for me. I also used to engineer and mix a lot back in the day so my ears are trained to bleed and get angry when the mix is off

It's so hard to talk to people about it who don't really get it or have the ear


A dre record sounds the same to some people as some mixtape shyt.

Always has me

shyt makes me not even wanna listen to it anymore. I pointed this out when it first released.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Damn, it just clicked with me. It's like I really get it now.

Enlightenment

Dap and +rep, great post, my nikka.

Dre really is the goat of this Hip Hop shyt.

start trying to make beats breh. it will change the way you hear the music. i thought all my GOATs were great before..now my mind is truly blown beyond what i thought it could be before

 

[I love Latina women]

start trying to make beats breh. it will change the way you hear the music. i thought all my GOATs were great before..now my mind is truly blown beyond what i thought it could be before

Yeah? Damn, really?

 

[Sound (∀√a) Maths]

These new age beat makers don't have a clue what they're doing

Shyt is just loud and uncompressed

From my understanding Dre doesn't compress much, if any at all. I think the current generation compresses too much! I also raise DJ Quik, Troy Hightower, MixedByAli, Russell Elevado and Bob Power.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Yeah? Damn, really?

You almost see the sounds in a way...ive only been at it for about a year and I can only imagine what Dre hears when he listens to music or sounds in general.

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

this beat..

at the lyrics though.