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

[BK The Great]

Dr. Dre is in my top 10 favorite producers of all time, almost everything he does has that clean crisp sound that not mant can duplicate, his snares, bass and hi hats are second to none

 

[Palm Tree's & Blunts]

but his headphones wack


now the sony studio monitor headphones are

Are they legit?

I need to get some new headphones

 

[Ol’Otis]

Are they legit?

I need to get some new headphones

hell yeah

 

[reserved_one]

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.

You could had ended the thread after this.

 

[BK The Great]

his darker beats are just as dope too

 

[Mowgli]

Ali you mixed with Dre huh

 

[Killalex]

Check my avi

Stop it. Dre> Quick any day

 

[dakidbanks]

Aside from the beats, the vocals are crisp too

The only album I think Dre didn't do a good job mixing was that Jay Z album

 

[feelosofer]

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.

Great post.

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

I'm not a huge Dre fan but gahdamn the only word I can use is crisp. That man must have invented the EQ

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

who sound engineered jay z's American gangster album?

 

[drugxglory]

I barely heard a new instrument on "Light Speed" a few years ago after listening to it on some studio headphones i legit had
The whole song

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

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

Shyt is just loud and uncompressed

I miss real bass lines

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

who sound engineered jay z's American gangster album?

I'm pretty sure the Hitmen had a part in it, who made the best produced album LAD. Puffy and Hov said most of those samples were held for Biggie

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

I'm pretty sure the Hitmen had a part in it, who made the best produced album LAD. Puffy and Hov said most of those samples were held for Biggie

you are right as Puffy was involved exec producer. props my man.