How to Make 90s Beats with Today's Gear

What Plugins and Sounds Do You Need?

1. Gold Clip by Schwabe Digital
2. Kilohearts Bitcrush [Free]
3. 90s Boom Bap Drum Kits
4. Hip Hop Samples
5. Native Instruments Komplete 15 (India library)
6. E-MU Proteus Kontakt Library
7. FL Studio

In the 90's, hip hop focused on making beats from samples. Mainly because there was a lack of instrumentation and gear available in the community. 

Hip Hop Music Producers who couldn't afford to hire an orchestral ensemble or a session band had to grab existing ideas from records, this is known as sampling.

But, the samples weren't the only "magic" in the 90's hip-hop sound. It was about sonics, texture and converters.

What gave the beat that knock was the converters in the machines and outboard gear.

In the video above, I show you how to achieve the sound of the MPC 60 using free plugins. You have to downsample to 40,000kHz and use a 12bit bit depth. 

To recreate some of those mastering converter sounds, I love Gold Clip. No plugins on the market sound like it. It's my favorite clipper.

You can find Kontakt libraries with vintage sound modules from the 90s, like E-MU Proteus rack for Kontakt.

It's all about finding the right sounds from that time period.

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