Wednesday – Only geeks like hump day. Every week the SBR posse embraces our inner nerd and talks shop.
One of the first pieces of gear I bought back in 2000 was the EMU 6400. The reason for this was really basic… the whole Ram Records posse used it as their exclusive samplers and Shimon said he would divulge the secrets of the Ram sound to us. Listen to any classic record from these guys pre-2004 and you hear this thing’s trademark sound all over the place. What made it unique was the z-plane filters which in nerd talk means you can morph between two EQ states rather than crossfading. What does this mean? Who the hell cares, let these audio clips speak for themselves.
This sampler is the only piece of gear I still own from our old studio. There are literally thousands of software samplers and VST filters out there but still if there is a WGL track that has any major filtering, trust that it is coming out of this thing. It seems with the whole dubstep trend happening at the moment that there is a mini resurgence in the EMU line of samplers. The cool thing is that you can score one for only a few hundred bucks, basically the same cost as most VST samplers.
Hey dude that’s my Mackie on top of that thing.