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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
Looking great, that COB light is killing it
Looking great, that COB light is killing it
Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spectrum
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No kidding, thats whats up
I did pretty much every aspect of music production, except for actually producing beats and dj'ing, but I did over my time produce about maybe 100 beats or so.. I mainly used software based sampling, and midi virtual instruments and loved my Emu-mp7 which was a sequencer with pads like a MPC. I've used MPC's but didn't own one so I never really used it a ton, but still love how drum samples really punch on a beat made with a MPC. I mainly was a recording/mixing and mastering engineer, and 2nd a lyricist, writer, rapper/performer... and then also did all the other things along the line like artist development, marketing, advertising, merchandice manufacturing like tshirt screenprinting, label making, and such, as well as artist management, live sound mixing, photography and video shooting, and a little editing and graphic design. Pretty much anything involved in music production, promotion, management and running a record label I participated in... for some reason though I never did much producing as it wasn't my strongest point, and dj'ing, which I now kick myself for since I have had hundreds of people that wanted me to dj their partys, shows, events.. I did a couple parties and underground poker tournements as the dj, but it just never was my thing.. I was more the one with the creative touch to projects to make them special like an executive producer, as well as the ear behind the mixes and final products.
Music is what brought me to cali in the first place. I had an artist I was working with in the chicago area who got signed to a label in orange county which was owned by a bunch of past star rappers and industry people. So the artist I was working with said I'm only going to cali if my engineer comes too, and so he asked me and I said yep... lets ride...
He was out there a few months before I came out and I flew out to check it all out before making the drive, everything was legit so I packed up my nice mercury sable with my belongings and music gear, and drove out to cali from IL by myself with just $500 in my pocket and nothing in the bank.. I was on a make it or break it mission
So I arrive with a car full of stuff, hardly any money and no place to even stay.. I figured oh well, I will make it happen.. So I was lucky that one of the guys that owned the label had an office in a strip mall he didn't use and said that I could sleep there till I figure things out which was nice.. the only thing was the bathroom was a public one outside of the office and got locked at night... so I became really good with a credit card in the door jam to break into the bathroom at night.. boy was that a not fun experience when nature was yelling lol
I was in heaven, Cali, free, doing music which is one of my passions and just loving life. I stil to this day can remember the first morning waking up in the office like...where the heck am I... oh yea.. and then opening the door and smelling the saline air from the ocean breeze, feeling the sunshine and being so energized to get things moving... That memory I hope never leaves me because it was such a liberating and free feeling to just have no plan, no worries and just to do what I love... and not be tied down by rent, bills, or anything other than food and thats it. I showered every day at a friends house in town, or used a local gym shower for a few months, which worked ok with me, and then just went to the studio, morning to night...
The next 2 years moved so quick for me as every day was packed with trips to and from LA, or music venues, shaking hands with literally hundreds of famous and well known industry people, being introduced as a professional with other professionals which felt really good and just life was amazing at this point... I worked with tons of popular artists and pretty much did everything I could to help launch the labels first few artists. I even back when myspace was popular had a few pages, one for my studio, one for my personal music and one for label artists and even managed to catch the attention of an A/R at Capitol records to met with me in some mansion in the hills of hollywood near the capitol building to talk about possibly signing me to the label.. I was so gassed up over all the stuff I was already doing I declined their offer to further conversation in regards to me being an artist since all the glamor and glitz and exclusiveness I already was involved with, I didn't want to sign any dotted lines and be a industry puppet... I still to this day wonder what would have happened if I did further talks with them, but I think I made the right choice
Things were great for a while until money ran low in the label and too many owners were trying to get involved and so direction was constantly changed and over a few years things fell apart. My reality of life hit me that even though I love music, I also needed more income and something which was steady so I put music to the side and started the career life of sales... well actually went back to it...
So thats my music story and how I got to Cali, and I fell in love with just about every aspect of it, except for the extremely high prices of living, and the job situation... I still dabble with music and recently met a co worker who was famous back in the early 90s and signed with Eazy-E and priority records, and we have become really good friends.. so me and him recently recorded a nice chill weed smoking song which I rapped on, and I just recently wrote a very deep song about violence in todays society and how the children need to have better, but have not officially recorded it yet, since my studio needs a new interface... my old one is amazing as far as conversion and S/N but doesn't work with modern windows... otherwise I probably would still be recording more often.. the new interface I want is about $2500 and even though I want it, its more of a hobby and not a necessity at this time so I will have to wait until its within budget again.
No kidding, thats whats up
I did pretty much every aspect of music production, except for actually producing beats and dj'ing, but I did over my time produce about maybe 100 beats or so.. I mainly used software based sampling, and midi virtual instruments and loved my Emu-mp7 which was a sequencer with pads like a MPC. I've used MPC's but didn't own one so I never really used it a ton, but still love how drum samples really punch on a beat made with a MPC. I mainly was a recording/mixing and mastering engineer, and 2nd a lyricist, writer, rapper/performer... and then also did all the other things along the line like artist development, marketing, advertising, merchandice manufacturing like tshirt screenprinting, label making, and such, as well as artist management, live sound mixing, photography and video shooting, and a little editing and graphic design. Pretty much anything involved in music production, promotion, management and running a record label I participated in... for some reason though I never did much producing as it wasn't my strongest point, and dj'ing, which I now kick myself for since I have had hundreds of people that wanted me to dj their partys, shows, events.. I did a couple parties and underground poker tournements as the dj, but it just never was my thing.. I was more the one with the creative touch to projects to make them special like an executive producer, as well as the ear behind the mixes and final products. Music is what brought me to cali in the first place. I had an artist I was working with in the chicago area who got signed to a label in orange county which was owned by a bunch of past star rappers and industry people. So the artist I was working with said I'm only going to cali if my engineer comes too, and so he asked me and I said yep... lets ride...
He was out there a few months before I came out and I flew out to check it all out before making the drive, everything was legit so I packed up my nice mercury sable with my belongings and music gear, and drove out to cali from IL by myself with just $500 in my pocket and nothing in the bank.. I was on a make it or break it mission
So I arrive with a car full of stuff, hardly any money and no place to even stay.. I figured oh well, I will make it happen.. So I was lucky that one of the guys that owned the label had an office in a strip mall he didn't use and said that I could sleep there till I figure things out which was nice.. the only thing was the bathroom was a public one outside of the office and got locked at night... so I became really good with a credit card in the door jam to break into the bathroom at night.. boy was that a not fun experience when nature was yelling
lol I was in heaven, Cali, free, doing music which is one of my passions and just loving life. I stil to this day can remember the first morning waking up in the office like...where the heck am I... oh yea.. and then opening the door and smelling the saline air from the ocean breeze, feeling the sunshine and being so energized to get things moving... That memory I hope never leaves me because it was such a liberating and free feeling to just have no plan, no worries and just to do what I love... and not be tied down by rent, bills, or anything other than food and thats it. I showered every day at a friends house in town, or used a local gym shower for a few months, which worked ok with me, and then just went to the studio, morning to night...
The next 2 years moved so quick for me as every day was packed with trips to and from LA, or music venues, shaking hands with literally hundreds of famous and well known industry people, being introduced as a professional with other professionals which felt really good and just life was amazing at this point... I worked with tons of popular artists and pretty much did everything I could to help launch the labels first few artists. I even back when myspace was popular had a few pages, one for my studio, one for my personal music and one for label artists and even managed to catch the attention of an A/R at Capitol records to met with me in some mansion in the hills of hollywood near the capitol building to talk about possibly signing me to the label.. I was so gassed up over all the stuff I was already doing I declined their offer to further conversation in regards to me being an artist since all the glamor and glitz and exclusiveness I already was involved with, I didn't want to sign any dotted lines and be a industry puppet... I still to this day wonder what would have happened if I did further talks with them, but I think I made the right choice
Things were great for a while until money ran low in the label and too many owners were trying to get involved and so direction was constantly changed and over a few years things fell apart. My reality of life hit me that even though I love music, I also needed more income and something which was steady so I put music to the side and started the career life of sales... well actually went back to it...
So thats my music story and how I got to Cali, and I fell in love with just about every aspect of it, except for the extremely high prices of living, and the job situation... I still dabble with music and recently met a co worker who was famous back in the early 90s and signed with Eazy-E and priority records, and we have become really good friends.. so me and him recently recorded a nice chill weed smoking song which I rapped on, and I just recently wrote a very deep song about violence in todays society and how the children need to have better, but have not officially recorded it yet, since my studio needs a new interface... my old one is amazing as far as conversion and S/N but doesn't work with modern windows... otherwise I probably would still be recording more often.. the new interface I want is about $2500 and even though I want it, its more of a hobby and not a necessity at this time so I will have to wait until its within budget again.
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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
Hey Millertm I'm really loving the budmasters so far the photos above are the GOD panel though, but the COB's (white) are really doing an amazing job too Thanks for the compliments
Hey Millertm
I'm really loving the budmasters so far the photos above are the GOD panel though, but the COB's (white) are really doing an amazing job too Thanks for the compliments
millertm
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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
Cool, whatever they are their killing it.Hey Millertm
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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
I forgot to mention.. and I knew I left something out...
This was the first time I was introduced to Kush, OG kush and wow... let me tell you, from going from IL weed which usually either brick swag for super cheap and had hundreds of seeds, or if lucky maybe some BC buds (beasters) to cali fresh weed... another reason why I fell in love....
No kidding, thats whats up
Music is what brought me to cali in the first place. I had an artist I was working with in the chicago area who got signed to a label in orange county which was owned by a bunch of past star rappers and industry people. So the artist I was working with said I'm only going to cali if my engineer comes too, and so he asked me and I said yep... lets ride...
He was out there a few months before I came out and I flew out to check it all out before making the drive, everything was legit so I packed up my nice mercury sable with my belongings and music gear, and drove out to cali from IL by myself with just $500 in my pocket and nothing in the bank.. I was on a make it or break it mission
So I arrive with a car full of stuff, hardly any money and no place to even stay.. I figured oh well, I will make it happen.. So I was lucky that one of the guys that owned the label had an office in a strip mall he didn't use and said that I could sleep there till I figure things out which was nice.. the only thing was the bathroom was a public one outside of the office and got locked at night... so I became really good with a credit card in the door jam to break into the bathroom at night.. boy was that a not fun experience when nature was yelling
I was in heaven, Cali, free, doing music which is one of my passions and just loving life. I stil to this day can remember the first morning waking up in the office like...where the heck am I... oh yea.. and then opening the door and smelling the saline air from the ocean breeze, feeling the sunshine and being so energized to get things moving... That memory I hope never leaves me because it was such a liberating and free feeling to just have no plan, no worries and just to do what I love... and not be tied down by rent, bills, or anything other than food and thats it. I showered every day at a friends house in town, or used a local gym shower for a few months, which worked ok with me, and then just went to the studio, morning to night...
The next 2 years moved so quick for me as every day was packed with trips to and from LA, or music venues, shaking hands with literally hundreds of famous and well known industry people, being introduced as a professional with other professionals which felt really good and just life was amazing at this point... I worked with tons of popular artists and pretty much did everything I could to help launch the labels first few artists. I even back when myspace was popular had a few pages, one for my studio, one for my personal music and one for label artists and even managed to catch the attention of an A/R at Capitol records to met with me in some mansion in the hills of hollywood near the capitol building to talk about possibly signing me to the label.. I was so gassed up over all the stuff I was already doing I declined their offer to further conversation in regards to me being an artist since all the glamor and glitz and exclusiveness I already was involved with, I didn't want to sign any dotted lines and be a industry puppet... I still to this day wonder what would have happened if I did further talks with them, but I think I made the right choice
Things were great for a while until money ran low in the label and too many owners were trying to get involved and so direction was constantly changed and over a few years things fell apart. My reality of life hit me that even though I love music, I also needed more income and something which was steady so I put music to the side and started the career life of sales... well actually went back to it...
So thats my music story and how I got to Cali, and I fell in love with just about every aspect of it, except for the extremely high prices of living, and the job situation... I still dabble with music and recently met a co worker who was famous back in the early 90s and signed with Eazy-E and priority records, and we have become really good friends.. so me and him recently recorded a nice chill weed smoking song which I rapped on, and I just recently wrote a very deep song about violence in todays society and how the children need to have better, but have not officially recorded it yet, since my studio needs a new interface... my old one is amazing as far as conversion and S/N but doesn't work with modern windows... otherwise I probably would still be recording more often.. the new interface I want is about $2500 and even though I want it, its more of a hobby and not a necessity at this time so I will have to wait until its within budget again.
I forgot to mention.. and I knew I left something out...
This was the first time I was introduced to Kush, OG kush and wow... let me tell you, from going from IL weed which usually either brick swag for super cheap and had hundreds of seeds, or if lucky maybe some BC buds (beasters) to cali fresh weed... another reason why I fell in love....
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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
Thank you DrCannabi! I'm really happy with how the garden is going... yea the job thing was just an upset to normality I guess, and a signal that yep, the universe is ready to show me something new... keeping my 3rd eye open, mouth closed and ears open to catch the clues
Sorry to hear about your spinal surgery... I had a buddy from a recent past job that a similar thing happened to... he had a heart attack and had to take leave, and they let him go because of it... but he actually went back to selling luxury cars and is happier and less stressed which is really good for him I'm glad he recovered We do always land on our feet, even though sometimes on the side of the foot and sprain something...LOL
Hi Ice,
Ladies are looking lovely as ever. Sorry to hear about your job. I'm in the same place. I had to have spinal surgery with a 6 month recovery and they let me go. People like us always land on our feet!
Thank you DrCannabi! I'm really happy with how the garden is going... yea the job thing was just an upset to normality I guess, and a signal that yep, the universe is ready to show me something new... keeping my 3rd eye open, mouth closed and ears open to catch the clues
Sorry to hear about your spinal surgery... I had a buddy from a recent past job that a similar thing happened to... he had a heart attack and had to take leave, and they let him go because of it... but he actually went back to selling luxury cars and is happier and less stressed which is really good for him
I'm glad he recovered We do always land on our feet, even though sometimes on the side of the foot and sprain something...LOL
Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
Looks Great as Always Brotha
Looks Great as Always Brotha
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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
Thank you brother Cronic!!! happy Weednesday to you!
Looks Great as Always Brotha
Thank you brother Cronic!!! happy Weednesday to you!
Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
I admire your hustle and knowledge.
I had an EMU mp7 also! Purple with pads and knobs. I loved that thing.
The sounds were dope and we're used in many rap music tracks. You have all the skills to pay the bills and I love your style of writing. I started DJ ing back in 1977
and bought my 1st set of turntables and mixer on 78. Grew up in the BX and Harlem and was in the cradle of the birthplace of hip hop when it was mostly done in the park. My 1st piece of music production gear was the EMU mp7 then I finally got an mpc. Still make beats when the spirit hits me on my akai mpc renaissance. Sample based chops and loops. As a dj I developed and ear for dope samples. I love vst instruments too.
Ice i apologize for hijacking your journal but dude ..you started it!
+ reps bro!
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Yo Ice. Your post was so illuminated I needed shades to finish. Thank you my dude for this post.No kidding, thats whats up
Music is what brought me to cali in the first place. I had an artist I was working with in the chicago area who got signed to a label in orange county which was owned by a bunch of past star rappers and industry people. So the artist I was working with said I'm only going to cali if my engineer comes too, and so he asked me and I said yep... lets ride...
He was out there a few months before I came out and I flew out to check it all out before making the drive, everything was legit so I packed up my nice mercury sable with my belongings and music gear, and drove out to cali from IL by myself with just $500 in my pocket and nothing in the bank.. I was on a make it or break it mission
So I arrive with a car full of stuff, hardly any money and no place to even stay.. I figured oh well, I will make it happen.. So I was lucky that one of the guys that owned the label had an office in a strip mall he didn't use and said that I could sleep there till I figure things out which was nice.. the only thing was the bathroom was a public one outside of the office and got locked at night... so I became really good with a credit card in the door jam to break into the bathroom at night.. boy was that a not fun experience when nature was yelling
I was in heaven, Cali, free, doing music which is one of my passions and just loving life. I stil to this day can remember the first morning waking up in the office like...where the heck am I... oh yea.. and then opening the door and smelling the saline air from the ocean breeze, feeling the sunshine and being so energized to get things moving... That memory I hope never leaves me because it was such a liberating and free feeling to just have no plan, no worries and just to do what I love... and not be tied down by rent, bills, or anything other than food and thats it. I showered every day at a friends house in town, or used a local gym shower for a few months, which worked ok with me, and then just went to the studio, morning to night...
The next 2 years moved so quick for me as every day was packed with trips to and from LA, or music venues, shaking hands with literally hundreds of famous and well known industry people, being introduced as a professional with other professionals which felt really good and just life was amazing at this point... I worked with tons of popular artists and pretty much did everything I could to help launch the labels first few artists. I even back when myspace was popular had a few pages, one for my studio, one for my personal music and one for label artists and even managed to catch the attention of an A/R at Capitol records to met with me in some mansion in the hills of hollywood near the capitol building to talk about possibly signing me to the label.. I was so gassed up over all the stuff I was already doing I declined their offer to further conversation in regards to me being an artist since all the glamor and glitz and exclusiveness I already was involved with, I didn't want to sign any dotted lines and be a industry puppet... I still to this day wonder what would have happened if I did further talks with them, but I think I made the right choice
Things were great for a while until money ran low in the label and too many owners were trying to get involved and so direction was constantly changed and over a few years things fell apart. My reality of life hit me that even though I love music, I also needed more income and something which was steady so I put music to the side and started the career life of sales... well actually went back to it...
So thats my music story and how I got to Cali, and I fell in love with just about every aspect of it, except for the extremely high prices of living, and the job situation... I still dabble with music and recently met a co worker who was famous back in the early 90s and signed with Eazy-E and priority records, and we have become really good friends.. so me and him recently recorded a nice chill weed smoking song which I rapped on, and I just recently wrote a very deep song about violence in todays society and how the children need to have better, but have not officially recorded it yet, since my studio needs a new interface... my old one is amazing as far as conversion and S/N but doesn't work with modern windows... otherwise I probably would still be recording more often.. the new interface I want is about $2500 and even though I want it, its more of a hobby and not a necessity at this time so I will have to wait until its within budget again.
I admire your hustle and knowledge.
I had an EMU mp7 also! Purple with pads and knobs. I loved that thing.
The sounds were dope and we're used in many rap music tracks. You have all the skills to pay the bills and I love your style of writing. I started DJ ing back in 1977
and bought my 1st set of turntables and mixer on 78. Grew up in the BX and Harlem and was in the cradle of the birthplace of hip hop when it was mostly done in the park. My 1st piece of music production gear was the EMU mp7 then I finally got an mpc. Still make beats when the spirit hits me on my akai mpc renaissance. Sample based chops and loops. As a dj I developed and ear for dope samples. I love vst instruments too.
Ice i apologize for hijacking your journal but dude ..you started it!
+ reps bro!
Hey Millertm
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using 420
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Re: Icemud LED Grow Featuring The All New Budmaster COB Technology - White Full Spect
That's awesome to hear that you were in the very birth stages of hiphop, at its core I love me some east coast boom bap style tracks, still to this day one of my favorite styles of production, hard hitting snares, musical vintage type samples, a solid kick and its on haha. I actually pulled my MP-7 out about a month ago and was messing with it just because I was feeling the vibe that day and still love that piece of gear. I wish Emu was still making music gear, as they really had some amazing pieces of equipment. I still love my Emu1820M interface, had conversion better than the digidesign converters for about 1/2 the price.. unfortunately they stopped updating drivers so I can't find any 3rd party software to run it stable anymore and to get any converters in the same ballpark is 2grand and up.. will have to wait on that, although I do have my eyes on that universal audio apollo 8... what a beautiful interface with amazing sound quality...
My start in hiphop was back in the mid 90s, one of my buddies had a small studio with a 4 track tape deck, some turn tables and a roland groove box 303. I wanted to perform for my high school talent show and so I hit the studio, had no clue what I was doing but still managed to rock the crowd... I felt the energy, the love and I was hooked... I started making my own songs using a small tape recorder held up to speakers and live recording into the tape recorder... live mixing at its best..LOL once computers became household in the later 90s I found some software and began recording using fruityloops and acidpro and my computer microphone...
I found I was really talented with recording and making the sound quality good even with using horrible gear, and eventually invested in studio equipment on those (no payment, no interest deals) from the music stores... I think I maxed out about 10-15K$ in equipment on those cards and about a year later a DJ I was working with who used to DJ for 3-6 mafia ended up jacking all of my equipment, recordings, cds and vinyl. I was young, dumb and now almost 15k$ out and stilled owed the debt... man I was so depressed and lost... Luckilly I found my microphone (a 1000$ shure ksm44) at the local pawnshop and a mixing board I purchased and after filing police reports was able to get my microphone back, still to this day my favorite and cherished piece of gear... I put music down for about a year because I was just destroyed that all my hard work, and savings, and investment was gone... but then one day I remember getting so mad at the situation that I said, man, I'm not going to let that stop me.. I'm going to use my anger as motivation and I hit the ground running..
I made sure to be at every hiphop event and gathering in chicago, and never was "that guy" who was begging for attention, and usually played the background, but somehow I always found myself in a room with the best of the best. Luck always seemed to be on my side in music and I never "tried" to put myself into good situations, they always found me which was amazing. This is when I realized that I really had something special when people started to talk about me to others and next thing I know I was pretty much part of the chicago hiphop scene. I had my own "group" of all talented emcees that I worked with exclusively, but also ventured out to hang with other groups/camps and make the connections and always was going to and from the city to the burbs and back daily to work with different artists. Eventually I started to gain a lot of rep as the "go to" guy for clean vocals and mixes and so the talent I worked with kept getting better and better... eventually I started working with the artist that got signed in Cali and my west coast adventure began
The thought has crossed my mind a million times or more to get back into the music scene, but I found that out here in cali, studios saturated the landscape, and what I used to charge 50$/hr for in chicago, I can't even get 15$/hr here in Cali for so it just didn't really make sense for me to continue. I know there probably are a few hundred people that are extremely pissed at me I quit because of my talent and I still have the urge to get back into it, but I can now only do it if financially it makes sense... I actually would love to get into video game audio or even motion picture sound effects and foley, but its such a small market that pretty much I would have to know more than a few sombodys to get my foot in the door.
I almost had my opportunity a few years ago when I was professionally introduced to Quinten Tarantino's music director who was responsible for many of the movies we all know like pulp fiction and resevoir dogs, and she wanted me to do the sound and foley for a independent movie... a lower budget zombie movie... I was so excited that I started that night taking notes and watching the movie over and over, noting each second where certain sounds and effects would go but after about 1 month, the project didn't receive funding and it was dropped... bummer.. I still have the movie on DVD somewhere in my music files and disc stash, its very interesting to watch a movie that was filmed, not cut, not edited with no sound besides live sound... Maybe the opportunity will come again
Good to know there are other hiphop heads on here Sounds like you were in the perfect place at the perfect time to witness the birth of hiphop... thats such an awesome time in the history of the culture...
That's awesome to hear that you were in the very birth stages of hiphop, at its core
I love me some east coast boom bap style tracks, still to this day one of my favorite styles of production, hard hitting snares, musical vintage type samples, a solid kick and its on haha. I actually pulled my MP-7 out about a month ago and was messing with it just because I was feeling the vibe that day and still love that piece of gear. I wish Emu was still making music gear, as they really had some amazing pieces of equipment. I still love my Emu1820M interface, had conversion better than the digidesign converters for about 1/2 the price.. unfortunately they stopped updating drivers so I can't find any 3rd party software to run it stable anymore and to get any converters in the same ballpark is 2grand and up.. will have to wait on that, although I do have my eyes on that universal audio apollo 8... what a beautiful interface with amazing sound quality... My start in hiphop was back in the mid 90s, one of my buddies had a small studio with a 4 track tape deck, some turn tables and a roland groove box 303. I wanted to perform for my high school talent show and so I hit the studio, had no clue what I was doing but still managed to rock the crowd... I felt the energy, the love and I was hooked... I started making my own songs using a small tape recorder held up to speakers and live recording into the tape recorder... live mixing at its best..LOL once computers became household in the later 90s I found some software and began recording using fruityloops and acidpro and my computer microphone...
I found I was really talented with recording and making the sound quality good even with using horrible gear, and eventually invested in studio equipment on those (no payment, no interest deals) from the music stores... I think I maxed out about 10-15K$ in equipment on those cards and about a year later a DJ I was working with who used to DJ for 3-6 mafia ended up jacking all of my equipment, recordings, cds and vinyl. I was young, dumb and now almost 15k$ out and stilled owed the debt... man I was so depressed and lost... Luckilly I found my microphone (a 1000$ shure ksm44) at the local pawnshop and a mixing board I purchased and after filing police reports was able to get my microphone back, still to this day my favorite and cherished piece of gear... I put music down for about a year because I was just destroyed that all my hard work, and savings, and investment was gone... but then one day I remember getting so mad at the situation that I said, man, I'm not going to let that stop me.. I'm going to use my anger as motivation and I hit the ground running..
I made sure to be at every hiphop event and gathering in chicago, and never was "that guy" who was begging for attention, and usually played the background, but somehow I always found myself in a room with the best of the best. Luck always seemed to be on my side in music and I never "tried" to put myself into good situations, they always found me which was amazing. This is when I realized that I really had something special when people started to talk about me to others and next thing I know I was pretty much part of the chicago hiphop scene. I had my own "group" of all talented emcees that I worked with exclusively, but also ventured out to hang with other groups/camps and make the connections and always was going to and from the city to the burbs and back daily to work with different artists. Eventually I started to gain a lot of rep as the "go to" guy for clean vocals and mixes and so the talent I worked with kept getting better and better... eventually I started working with the artist that got signed in Cali and my west coast adventure began
The thought has crossed my mind a million times or more to get back into the music scene, but I found that out here in cali, studios saturated the landscape, and what I used to charge 50$/hr for in chicago, I can't even get 15$/hr here in Cali for so it just didn't really make sense for me to continue. I know there probably are a few hundred people that are extremely pissed at me I quit because of my talent and I still have the urge to get back into it, but I can now only do it if financially it makes sense... I actually would love to get into video game audio or even motion picture sound effects and foley, but its such a small market that pretty much I would have to know more than a few sombodys to get my foot in the door.
I almost had my opportunity a few years ago when I was professionally introduced to Quinten Tarantino's music director who was responsible for many of the movies we all know like pulp fiction and resevoir dogs, and she wanted me to do the sound and foley for a independent movie... a lower budget zombie movie... I was so excited that I started that night taking notes and watching the movie over and over, noting each second where certain sounds and effects would go but after about 1 month, the project didn't receive funding and it was dropped... bummer.. I still have the movie on DVD somewhere in my music files and disc stash, its very interesting to watch a movie that was filmed, not cut, not edited with no sound besides live sound... Maybe the opportunity will come again
Good to know there are other hiphop heads on here
Sounds like you were in the perfect place at the perfect time to witness the birth of hiphop... thats such an awesome time in the history of the culture...
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Ice
The more you share the more I wanna hear.
Your journal followers are probably tired of this discussion detour but I could talk about music production and hip
hop all day everyday. Gonna send you a pm.
It's awesome to know ya brother.
Ice
The more you share the more I wanna hear.
Your journal followers are probably tired of this discussion detour but I could talk about music production and hip
hop all day everyday. Gonna send you a pm.
It's awesome to know ya brother.
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Hey and WoW you really are ice ?? I would also love to hear all any stories you have to share you could pop them in my JointIts an offtopic thread for just tat sort of life changing stuff ,, it sounds as though you have an interesting karma (work)
You had outgrown that job the guys there were more than likely a lil jealous?? Then that can start any kind of reaction that then did spring you the sack ?/ Did they have the balls to tell you why.
Any how have a great day an please consider putting some of this stuff at the Joint in my signature
Only if you have the time
Hey and WoW you really are ice ?? I would also love to hear all any stories you have to share you could pop them in my Joint
Its an offtopic thread for just tat sort of life changing stuff ,, it sounds as though you have an interesting karma (work)You had outgrown that job the guys there were more than likely a lil jealous?? Then that can start any kind of reaction that then did spring you the sack ?/ Did they have the balls to tell you why.
Any how have a great day an please consider putting some of this stuff at the Joint in my signature
Only if you have the time
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Yeah I tend to love talking about things I love, haha, music production being one of them.. but yea, I should probably stay on topic..LOL
I'm glad to meet you too, Pm me anytime...
Ice
The more you share the more I wanna hear.
Your journal followers are probably tired of this discussion detour but I could talk about music production and hip
hop all day everyday. Gonna send you a pm.
It's awesome to know ya brother.
Yeah I tend to love talking about things I love, haha, music production being one of them.. but yea, I should probably stay on topic..LOL
I'm glad to meet you too, Pm me anytime...
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I definitely will be happy to join the thread appreciate the suggestion
I have definitely interesting karma.. its almost like my "luck" controls my direction for destiny and when things are going the right direction, they build, opportunities flow and it just happens, and usually when going the wrong direction something bad happens where it pretty much stops life and makes one thing about a different direction...
I definitely believe that even though I was a valuable asset there, I wasn't in the right position to utilized it, and maybe they realized it as well as I already knew, but it wasn't leading to the future in my head anyways, just paying the bills so really it was good to stir things up
I did put some in the air actually tonight I treated today like a job, looking for jobs for the most part and then watched a documentary on steve jobs and then got to tasting and testing my phenotypes of tangie..LOL on tonights menu was phenotype number 6, the purple pheno
Hey and WoW you really are ice ?? I would also love to hear all any stories you have to share you could pop them in my Joint
You had outgrown that job the guys there were more than likely a lil jealous?? Then that can start any kind of reaction that then did spring you the sack ?/ Did they have the balls to tell you why.
Any how have a great day an please consider putting some of this stuff at the Joint in my signature
Only if you have the time
I definitely will be happy to join the thread
appreciate the suggestion I have definitely interesting karma.. its almost like my "luck" controls my direction for destiny and when things are going the right direction, they build, opportunities flow and it just happens, and usually when going the wrong direction something bad happens where it pretty much stops life and makes one thing about a different direction...
I definitely believe that even though I was a valuable asset there, I wasn't in the right position to utilized it, and maybe they realized it as well as I already knew, but it wasn't leading to the future in my head anyways, just paying the bills so really it was good to stir things up
I did put some in the air actually tonight
I treated today like a job, looking for jobs for the most part and then watched a documentary on steve jobs and then got to tasting and testing my phenotypes of tangie..LOL on tonights menu was phenotype number 6, the purple pheno - Thread starter
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Hey Everyone... Smoke report time
So today after finishing up with doing job related stuff I decided it was time to taste test some of the tangie phenotypes. So tonight I decided to shoot some photos of the Tangie Phenotype #6, the purple phenotype. This was one of the 2 jars that molded and the only buds I found that didn't have any on it was the 3 tops of the plant, the 3 main colas.. they dried much quicker than the lower buds and I think that may be why they didn't mold. I inspected them very thoroughly with a 30x magnifier.
The Smell:
So the smell, well because this was one of the ones that was jarred too wet, it definitely will take more time for the true smell to come out but this one has a very different smell. The smell of the bud is a buttery sweet type smell, very hard to describe. I guess the best I could would be if you smelled an orange peel, not the fruit but just the peel, where it has hints of citrus but a more peppery tingle to it.. Thats kind of how this one smells and also like a fresh lime type smell, not really tangy but more like a lime pudding type of smell. Very buttery smelling though. Not too skunky but definitely smells a lot.
The Inhale:
Upon initial inhale there is very little throat burn or expansion, its a very pleasant smooth inhale and you could hold it in the lungs for a while without burning or discomfort. I definitely dig that when I choose preferred smoke The flavor itself was hard to describe as well, very similar to the smell, but the taste was definitely more skunky than the actual smell. The taste almost reminds me of the pot in the late 90s which is I believe the era that a lot of the genetics in this are from.
The effect:
Well I only took 2 hits and waited and wanted to see how it effected me and I definitely felt 2 hits about a minute after smoking it, however over time it seems to intensify quite a bit. At first you could feel it right in your head, an uplifting energy type feeling where it almost felt as though you lifted your chin, straitened your neck and feel very centered and balanced.. I don't know how else to describe it but definitely a more uplifting high. Even though uplifting I also feel a slight disconnect from my thoughts and right now I feel even typing is hard as my thoughts are racy and its hard to concentrate on just one thing right now. However I think it would be a great smoke for a party with a lot of small talk lol Not so sure about a deep discussion about the cosmos though as its very hard to stay on track with one thought.
Overall it is extremely potent, and even just a few hits has definitely has had me on a very strong buzz for quite some time. I definitely think this pheno will be even better this next current flowering run if I can dry it and cure it much better and not lose most of it to the mold...lol lesson learned...
Here is the 3 tops that I have of the tangie phenotype 6
Hey Everyone... Smoke report time
So today after finishing up with doing job related stuff I decided it was time to taste test some of the tangie phenotypes. So tonight I decided to shoot some photos of the Tangie Phenotype #6, the purple phenotype. This was one of the 2 jars that molded and the only buds I found that didn't have any on it was the 3 tops of the plant, the 3 main colas.. they dried much quicker than the lower buds and I think that may be why they didn't mold. I inspected them very thoroughly with a 30x magnifier.
The Smell:
So the smell, well because this was one of the ones that was jarred too wet, it definitely will take more time for the true smell to come out but this one has a very different smell. The smell of the bud is a buttery sweet type smell, very hard to describe. I guess the best I could would be if you smelled an orange peel, not the fruit but just the peel, where it has hints of citrus but a more peppery tingle to it.. Thats kind of how this one smells and also like a fresh lime type smell, not really tangy but more like a lime pudding type of smell. Very buttery smelling though. Not too skunky but definitely smells a lot.
The Inhale:
Upon initial inhale there is very little throat burn or expansion, its a very pleasant smooth inhale and you could hold it in the lungs for a while without burning or discomfort. I definitely dig that when I choose preferred smoke
The flavor itself was hard to describe as well, very similar to the smell, but the taste was definitely more skunky than the actual smell. The taste almost reminds me of the pot in the late 90s which is I believe the era that a lot of the genetics in this are from. The effect:
Well I only took 2 hits and waited and wanted to see how it effected me and I definitely felt 2 hits about a minute after smoking it, however over time it seems to intensify quite a bit. At first you could feel it right in your head, an uplifting energy type feeling where it almost felt as though you lifted your chin, straitened your neck and feel very centered and balanced.. I don't know how else to describe it but definitely a more uplifting high. Even though uplifting I also feel a slight disconnect from my thoughts and right now I feel even typing is hard as my thoughts are racy and its hard to concentrate on just one thing right now. However I think it would be a great smoke for a party with a lot of small talk
lol Not so sure about a deep discussion about the cosmos though as its very hard to stay on track with one thought. Overall it is extremely potent, and even just a few hits has definitely has had me on a very strong buzz for quite some time. I definitely think this pheno will be even better this next current flowering run if I can dry it and cure it much better and not lose most of it to the mold...lol lesson learned...
Here is the 3 tops that I have of the tangie phenotype 6
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Nice game you scored from the hunt!
... and you have cuts ... ?
I always perk up when I hear lime. I associate it with a full, comfortable, soaring ride.
And pepper is my second favorite. Very nice!
[Edit] Key lime pie, right?
Nice game you scored from the hunt!
... and you have cuts ... ?
I always perk up when I hear lime. I associate it with a full, comfortable, soaring ride.
And pepper is my second favorite. Very nice![Edit] Key lime pie, right?
drcannabi
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Excellent smoke report ice! Congrats
Excellent smoke report ice! Congrats
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yeah that was a good reportI find you very easy to understand on info some times I seem to zone out,,
yeah that was a good report
I find you very easy to understand on info some times I seem to zone out,,
Fuzzy Duck
Well-Known Member
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Interesting back ground Ice
Why not go self employed !
Recording studio etc, perhaps a new sales pitch aka grow kit & shop you have plenty of experience... the world is just the pearl in the oyster.
Interesting back ground Ice
Why not go self employed !
Recording studio etc, perhaps a new sales pitch aka grow kit & shop you have plenty of experience... the world is just the pearl in the oyster.
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Hey Graytail
Yep I have a cut, right now is in the flowering tent and I have little clones that just rooted in 3 gallon pots right now in my 3rd tent. It definitely has a very light lime taste, without the tang though.. but yea its a very uplifting high, but very racy thoughts as well, very hard to concentrate as I find myself doing like 5 things at once and going back and forth between them...LOL
If you like peppery, you might like GSC, forum cut.. with a nice slow cure about 2 months it had a very peppery bitter taste, along with a sweet miniscule berry flavor and a strong hash taste. If chewed almost unbearable peppery spicy taste to it..
I can't wait to finish up this 2nd round of them to see how they turn out under the purple budmasters, and a much more smooth drying and curing I have a feeling its going to be a very hard decision to pick the phenos... I think so far my favorite is #3 which is so so fragrant
Nice game you scored from the hunt!
... and you have cuts ... ?
I always perk up when I hear lime. I associate it with a full, comfortable, soaring ride.
[Edit] Key lime pie, right?
Hey Graytail
Yep I have a cut, right now is in the flowering tent and I have little clones that just rooted in 3 gallon pots right now in my 3rd tent. It definitely has a very light lime taste, without the tang though.. but yea its a very uplifting high, but very racy thoughts as well, very hard to concentrate as I find myself doing like 5 things at once and going back and forth between them...LOL
If you like peppery, you might like GSC, forum cut.. with a nice slow cure about 2 months it had a very peppery bitter taste, along with a sweet miniscule berry flavor and a strong hash taste. If chewed almost unbearable peppery spicy taste to it..
I can't wait to finish up this 2nd round of them to see how they turn out under the purple budmasters, and a much more smooth drying and curing
I have a feeling its going to be a very hard decision to pick the phenos... I think so far my favorite is #3 which is so so fragrant