Aesop Rock

New York-based hip hop artist Ian Bavitz

Role

Rapper Music Producer

Genre

Hip Hop

Group

The Weathermen Hail Mary Mallon

Credits

I Heard It's A Mess There Too Maps Anjelitu

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Role

Rapper Music Producer

Genre

Hip Hop

Group

The Weathermen Hail Mary Mallon

Credits

I Heard It's A Mess There Too Maps Anjelitu

Social

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Ensoniq ASR-10

Audio Samplers

“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.”

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Mackie Onyx 1640

Mixers

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.

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Apple iMac (General)

Computers & Peripherals

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

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Radial JDV MK5 Super DI Direct Box

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