The Alchemist

In this interview with AKAI, the Alchemist talks about gear and production, including MPC and turntables. "Akai: We noticed you have some turntables here too. Tell us about those.

TA: I use the Numark TT500. I love that turntable because the reverse on one button, that’s like my favorite feature. I don’t even take the needle off when I’m going through records. I’ll just reverse that back. If I hear that sample, I’ll hit reverse instead of picking the needle up because sometimes I hear something when it’s playing backwards, and it’s like, ‘woah!’ that little sound is good for something. Making beats for hip-hop, anything goes, so I might take a snare backwards and load it back into the MPC. The backward button is crazy. You know, just on command, go reverse. Oh yeah, plus the pitch range on that is killing all the other turntables. Sometimes I wanted to hear a record extremely slow, but it wouldn’t go that way. I used to have to put my finger on the side of the Technics to try to make it sound slow and it would just be wobbling it just wasn’t it. With the TT500 you can speed it up and slow it down so much you’re almost unlimited when you want to hear something in a different tone or pitch, or whatever it will work."

In this Youtube video at 2:50 you can see The Alchemist using Rane TTM 56s 2-channel DJ Mixer 2004, you can read the model numbers if you stop the video, and its also reconnaisable by the color.

At the 0:08 mark in the video "Eminem - Berzerk (Live on SNL)" by EminemVEVO on YouTube, The Alchemist is visibly using two Pioneer CDJ-2000 Limited Edition White units.

In the video "Eminem - Berzerk (Live on SNL)" by EminemVEVO, starting at 0:08, The Alchemist is visibly using a Pioneer DJM-850 White.

In the video "Eminem - Berzerk (Live on SNL)" on YouTube, The Alchemist is seen using a Numark PT-01 Scratch turntable starting at 0:08.

In the YouTube video titled "The Alchemist & Boldy James in the studio making the BOLDFACE ep," The Alchemist is seen using the Rane TTM 56 Mixer. At timecode 2:23, he adjusts the equalizer parameters, providing clear evidence of this gear's use.