DJ Quik

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."

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.

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 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 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 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.

In the video titled "Nate Dogg In The Studio With DJ Quik," DJ Quik is seen using the Akai MPC 2500 while collaborating with Nate Dogg. Notably, at the 2:44 mark, there's a clear view of the MPC 2500 among the studio equipment.

It's literally an MPC 3000 LE. Whoever thought it was a 2500 likely has an IQ below 90.

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.

In this youtube video at 6:54 DJ Quik is seen holding the MPC One and talking about using it for production

The songs on 2Pac's All Eyez on Me album were mixed on the SSL 4000 E mixing console.