Aesop Rock

“I’ll always start with a drum loop run off a Technics 1200 turntable into my ASR-10, which I then use to trigger and manipulate the beat,” he explains. “Once I get something I can work with, I put the loop into Pro Tools, because you’re working with more than 2MB worth of memory there. I could never cut the ASR-10 out of the loop, though. It’s much more intuitive for me to construct the beat on the ASR-10 than it is to cut and paste in Pro Tools.”

“I just moved all of my old gear into a room in my new house, and started laying down tracks like nothing had ever changed,” he says. “I wanted to try out a new mic, so I splurged on a Neumann M 147. I fell in love with it—it’s so warm sounding. But, besides that, it’s just my old gear, and I’m recording my old way.”

“A Mac G5, a Roland Fantom, an ASR-10, a Technics 1200, the Mackie board, and my Event 20/20 monitors are pretty much my entire set-up,” he says.

The next step for Bavitz is recording his bass lines, which he does with “an old Fender P” into a Radial JDV Super DI through a Mackie Onyx 1640 16-channel mixer. After laying down his rhythm section, Bavitz spends the rest of the time writing lyrics to match his loops.

In a Facebook post, Aesop Rock shares that he uses an Apple iMac to record his music, specifically running Pro Tools.

The next step for Bavitz is recording his bass lines, which he does with “an old Fender P” into a Radial JDV Super DI through a Mackie Onyx 1640 16-channel mixer. After laying down his rhythm section, Bavitz spends the rest of the time writing lyrics to match his loops.

The Voyager can be seen in his studio during The Uncluded practice photos.

A Roland SH-101 can be seen in his studio

A Microkorg Synthesizer can be seen in his studio setups. He has used this synthesizer ever since he was making beats for Bazooka Tooth and he still uses it to this day.

“A Mac G5, a Roland Fantom, an ASR-10, a Technics 1200, the Mackie board, and my Event 20/20 monitors are pretty much my entire set-up,” he says.