DJ Quik

Dj Quik in a interview with Billboard talks using the mic to help create Yg's hit "My N*gga" a few years back, "I made it super easy and super loud so anybody could've technically mixed it. And that's what they did. They didn't like the way I blended it, which is cool, so they had somebody else blend it. But before that happened, YG said he had to do the vocals over. So one of the engineers at the studio grabbed my microphone. I have a Neumann 67, which is the hot sh--. All the greats use it. I put in my 67, even went in and was talking to him in the booth like "Nail this sh--" and what not. He nailed it."

In this Dj Quik interview with Complex he tells his rise to modern day legend from his humble beginning on the SP and cassette “I got an SP1200 drum machine and a 4-track Tascam recorder, a little cassette recorder. I went from making mixtapes to getting a drum machine and producing my own songs. After about a year on the SP1200, going through different tape formulations. Just listening to the way frequencies in my voice respond to certain tapes, I figured I was in there."

In this Dj Quik interview with Complex he tells his rise to modern day legend from his humble beginning on the SP and cassette “I got an SP1200 drum machine and a 4-track Tascam recorder, a little cassette recorder. I went from making mixtapes to getting a drum machine and producing my own songs. After about a year on the SP1200, going through different tape formulations. Just listening to the way frequencies in my voice respond to certain tapes, I figured I was in there."

DJ Quik also discusses the TASCAM 4-Track at 12:10 in this video.

Dj Quik talks to complex about the creation of some of his past hits "I got robbed on my first album. That was my label, after I left Warner Brothers A&R. 'Fandango' to me was just a track—the way I recorded it was all tubes. I had this big board, this TL Audio Tube Tracker board. This big blue glowing board."

Dj Quik tweets "And yes I party alone mostly. I'm a celebrity. And this is my personalized AKAI MPC-R." with a pic of a MPC Ren on the ground.

At 0:11 in the video Dj Quik talks about favorite drum machines and his feelings on some of them "Battlecat actually introduced me to the MPC 60 when it first came out...and i wasn't ready for it 'cuz i wasn't ready for all of the Midi implementation because i was a SP-1200 man. But when i saw the MPC 60II it changed my life when it came to equipment..."

DJ Quik talks about drum machines in this interview "This one right here, (points to MPC 3000) its a MPC 3000...one of the greatest drum machines ever created in life"

In this video we see Dj Quik in the studio with Nate Dogg creating a song using the MPC 2500 among other gear at 0:40 but the really good shot is at 2:44.

In this interview with Billboard, DJ Quik explains mixing with the legendary board on the song "My N*gga" by YG "I pull the song up, clean it all up, put it through that SSL board -- SSL is one of the best recording systems ever. I made it really dynamic, cleaned it, did all the little stuff that needed to be done. Then I stemmed it out. That's a term that sound guys use when you have to make it easy for someone to remix. Instead of them having this whole jumbled console full of one hi-hat here, one horn sound over there, you put them in stereo stems so it all makes sense. "

In this video at 17:35, DJ Quik explains that for the song "Can U Werk Wit Dat" he still had and used the original TR-808 Drum Machine to produce the beat.

At the 3:48 mark DJ Quik walks into a LA studio session for Dr. Dre's "Detox" full of legends and pulls this out on them saying "Its every drum machine you ever wanted in your life all rolled into one tone generator, its a TR-808, TR-909, Linn drum, DBX, it loads up quick & Oh God it rocks out!!!" as they all pass around this beautiful machine touching knobs in awe, at the 4:54 mark Snoop Dogg tells his camera man "This the cheat sheet right here out his personal livin room era" as he holds it up.

confirmation at 2:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HTRXnuwGlM

In this pic we see Dj Quik in the studio and underneath his feet is a Roland JD-800 among other gear in the studio. He also mentions the JD-800 in an in-depth interview with Complex magazine.

In this pic we see Dj Quik holding a Roland JP-8000 among other pieces.

In this interview Dj Quik talks with Complex on the making and production of some of his past records "I was playing with the new Roland XV 5080 with all the little aftermarket chips with the extra sounds in it created by Jupiter, and playing with those sample horns. And that's where that came from, that's the sample horn collection."

In this interview with Fader, Dj Quik talks about bass sounds and 808's "They're not even using the 808 drum machines, they're using the 808 samples that people have hodgepodged and put online. They want to keep it there because it sounds like the records that they hear on the radio. They think it's the definitive sound. It wasn't just that. It was the fucking DMX drum machine. If you think about songs like [Run DMC's] "Krush Groove"—that was one of the best drum sounds ever! It's not just about the 808. People get stuck because they like the speakers to vibrate. People get turned on, there's something sexual about it. It's like a vibrator. But you can make it sexual with a bassline, you can make it sexual with an SH-101, a Roland fucking synthesizer. You can make it emotive and erotic with flangers and stuff. People don't do the whole math when it comes to making music. You can do so many different things to one sound that it will become something totally new. "