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Eric Prydz laptop
I read on an interview somewhere that he mostly produces his tunes on a"crappy old laptob from 2004" with a pair of headphones.
it seems to me like he just shat on anyone needing hardware....whats his setup+plugins? what do u guys think of the fact that he can hammer out his choons with a relatively joke of a setup compared to many TA's?
i only come to mind two tracks of his which i find extremely cool but they are not very complicated so its probably possible. they are both quit muddy sounding tho so i guess he just smashed them thu an analog compressor when finished (or the label):
Smoked - Metropolis (Eric Prydz Munich NRG Mix)
Cirez D - Control Freak
Must be a pretty old school bounce fanatic. Waves don't take too much and I would think a 2004 laptop isnt that outdated as long as all you use it for is a DAW. The headphone thing might take a little getting used to.
Not that it may matter , but he maybe uses and old mac running logic to rough copy the tune and then polishes it with other goodies.
But i dont like revealing how i produce my music.Too many people judge on here and all over.Although its a small percentage , i still wouldnt be comfortable saying what i use to the general crowd.
But thats professional talk , and im an amature.
And with all the sponsers and everthing , there saying they use it but why do i need to know why its 300 monitary units and great value? bung bung!.
But i can hear refx nexus all over the place today.But im not going to judge that for a rompler for those filler sounds and to an extent you can heavily modulate the sound for your own taste and all for the reasonable price of 299!!!
Nexus , your life , Your future.
buy it
Probably true to some extent. Hi tracks focus more on simple elements that fit well together - you don't need a quad core mac pro to do it.
Check out this interview with Trentemoller.
http://allscandinavian.com/239/tren...he-last-resort/
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| it all started with a cheap laptop from a cut-price supermarket, on which Trentem�ller produced, ironically enough, the underground hit �Le Champagne�. He made his debut in 2003 with a vinyl EP on the acclaimed American house label Naked Music, and went on to be one of their best sellers. |
it's about working with ur equipment, you can make gold with anything, it's just more work usually 
if you don't have problems with the dodgy sound of jsut a laptop that's sweet, personally it annoys me a little so i prefer a bit more clarity..
friend of mine is signed to a pretty big dutch label and only uses a laptop and headphones to produce: not even a midi keyboard
i couldn't do it, but deffinitly some people can!
Since i have been using Intel Pentium 4 for like a year now i am sure that with any dual core laptop i could produce entire tracks. Thoguh i am just going to go all out when i finally upgrade computers and get a quadcore. 
my studio until about 3 months ago
did everything ive ever done on that setup up until the recent batch of remixes i did, which all i did was swap out the laptop for a mac pro desktop. i still use headphones, cant mixdown on monitors for some reason. just too used to it i guess.
im not about to compare myself to eric in anyway, he and jerome ismae are the undisputed champs of mixing down dance music...but it is totally possible to create decent sounding dance music with a really simple setup. i hear that eric only uses the plugins that come with logic and nothing else.
he's the man, id love to be a fly on the wall in his studio for a few hours.
i dont really buy into the whole analog thing personally, its really about taste in the end. analog peeps seem to defend their choice more fiercely, but i think thats because theyve usually dropped an unbelievable amount of $$$ on it.
I think your use for external stuff will depend mostly on what kind of interface you enjoy using, and what helps your workflow. Every synth has its own quirks, and I tend to think that things like the visual layout and the presets that come with a synth can "direct" you toward making certain sounds, even if you never actually use the presets in their original form.
I do fine on a computer, but I have to admit I love sitting in front of some hardware synths and making noises. I'm all software right now, but I'll probably get an analog hardware synth eventually. The filters on the analog synths I've played with just sound nicer to me, but of course "nicer" is really a matter of opinion and a matter of what kind of sound you're going for.
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| Originally posted by Blake_Jarrell my studio until about 3 months ago did everything ive ever done on that setup up until the recent batch of remixes i did, which all i did was swap out the laptop for a mac pro desktop. i still use headphones, cant mixdown on monitors for some reason. just too used to it i guess. im not about to compare myself to eric in anyway, he and jerome ismae are the undisputed champs of mixing down dance music...but it is totally possible to create decent sounding dance music with a really simple setup. i hear that eric only uses the plugins that come with logic and nothing else. he's the man, id love to be a fly on the wall in his studio for a few hours. i dont really buy into the whole analog thing personally, its really about taste in the end. analog peeps seem to defend their choice more fiercely, but i think thats because theyve usually dropped an unbelievable amount of $$$ on it. |
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| Originally posted by almar that one in the picture is a Mac?? can't really figure it out |
again, another thing that's been reiterated a thousand times....
it's now what gear you have, it's how you use it effectively.
you could have a million dollar studio and still suck and honestly i see alot of guys on either gearslutz, here etc, have thousands of dollars worth of equipment and their tracks still sound like shit.
i used to be like "omg what gear does so and so use and how does it sound so good". the answer is that person knows their setup real well and knows exactly how to utilize it in a way to make their tracks sound the way they do.
know. your. gear.
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| Originally posted by sot again, another thing that's been reiterated a thousand times.... it's now what gear you have, it's how you use it effectively. you could have a million dollar studio and still suck and honestly i see alot of guys on either gearslutz, here etc, have thousands of dollars worth of equipment and their tracks still sound like shit. i used to be like "omg what gear does so and so use and how does it sound so good". the answer is that person knows their setup real well and knows exactly how to utilize it in a way to make their tracks sound the way they do. know. your. gear. |
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| Originally posted by almar that one in the picture is a Mac?? can't really figure it out |
Whilst I agree that its not what you have but how you use it, I find it incredibly hard to believe that all prydz' tunes are made on just a crappy laptop and headphones. The production quality of some of his tracks is excellent, some of the best out there. Not in terms of complexity but in terms of power, punch, bass and warmth.
I'd suspect that he maybe sketches out the arrangement and basic sounds of each track on his laptop THEN takes it into the studio with god knows what gear to produce the final sounds we hear.
He sends his finished tracks to a mastering house. Maybe he even sends all the individual stems too, so the mastering guys can get the best result possible.
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| Originally posted by G-Con Whilst I agree that its not what you have but how you use it, I find it incredibly hard to believe that all prydz' tunes are made on just a crappy laptop and headphones. The production quality of some of his tracks is excellent, some of the best out there. Not in terms of complexity but in terms of power, punch, bass and warmth. I'd suspect that he maybe sketches out the arrangement and basic sounds of each track on his laptop THEN takes it into the studio with god knows what gear to produce the final sounds we hear. |
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| Originally posted by evo8 Dont forget that he is playing out a lot and therefore has the opportunity to test any new stuff on a big soundsystem...... Also mastering is only the finishing touches, its all in the mixdown |
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| Originally posted by G-Con I never mentioned mastering... |
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| Originally posted by derail I'd say evo8 was responding to Beyer in terms of the comment about mastering. |
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| Originally posted by derail I'd say evo8 was responding to Beyer in terms of the comment about mastering. But overall, a lot of this stuff gets really murky when it's not straight from the source. Maybe he gets his stuff sounding like that on his laptop and it goes straight into the clubs without any extra processing like mastering (there are people who believe this is impossible and will laugh at the thought). Maybe he sketches out his ideas on the laptop, then builds the tracks from the ground up in a massive studio with every bit of expensive gear imaginable, after which the stems go to some of the world's best mastering houses and the best mix is then chosen for release. In the end, as has been stated many, many times, it's about getting to know your gear and your sound. Some people can create an amazing sound with a laptop and plugins. Some people can create an amazing sound with expensive hardware. It's not about what you use, it's about the end result, the music. I don't see it as hardware vs software. I happily use both, and would find it unfortunate to be limited to one or the other because of some ideological conviction. There are so many great tools out there, both hardware and software. |
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| Eric: I would say nowadays, 80% of my tracks I make on my laptop with a pair of headphones. That's it. Or maybe 70% because I'm traveling so much, and I rarely have any time to spend in the studio. The laptop I'm using is an old crappy PC from 2004. I mean it was kind of state of the art back then; it's kind of a custom made laptop from Frost Network, which is made for making music on it basically. It's running a really old version of Logic. I think it's 5.2 or something like that. But I sort of like being limited, because then you... I don't know. Instead of trying to figure out how all the synthesizers work, you can work with a few instruments and try to make as much as possible out of that. As for my studio, I'm running a Macintosh with Logic 7, and like wavs, plugins, and I do have the Korg bundle as well. And then, I have one synthesizer I think which is a Korg MS-2000. I think it's MS-2000B. It's the new version. It's the one with the vocoder thing. Apart from that I don't have anything. It's like microphone preamps, microphones, stuff like that. But as I said before, I really like to keep the setup as small and compact as possible. It's not really what kind of fancy equipment you have, it's how you use the stuff that you actually have, you know. And I'm doing fine with the small setup I have, and I don't have any plans of getting a big show off studio. I don't need that |
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| Originally posted by G-Con Whilst I agree that its not what you have but how you use it, I find it incredibly hard to believe that all prydz' tunes are made on just a crappy laptop and headphones. The production quality of some of his tracks is excellent, some of the best out there. Not in terms of complexity but in terms of power, punch, bass and warmth. I'd suspect that he maybe sketches out the arrangement and basic sounds of each track on his laptop THEN takes it into the studio with god knows what gear to produce the final sounds we hear. |
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