What Does Nottz Use To Make Beats?

What Does Nottz Use To Make Beats?
Nottz is one of the greatest and most reclusive hip hop producers of all time. Born in Norfolk Virginia, he helped define the sound of early 2000s hip hop. The centerpiece of Nottz’s production setup was the ASR 10. In this interview wiht Red Bull Music Academy Nottz was asked “What Kind of stuff are you using to make these beats”. He answered “ASR-10, Motif. Trying to get a crash out of it or something? It isn’t anything big, you don’t need anything big to make stuff. A lot of producers think you need these big studios and million-dollar equipment to make things happen. It ain’t like that - we used what we had. When we were starting out we had a little four-track and that helped us for where we are now. When we’re in the studio, it’s easier for us to do what we want. The four-tracks helped, use what you got, you don’t need that big stuff, use what you’ve got. Don’t let anyone tell you you need this $30,000 board, you don’t need that. It’s just a $400 four-track, you’re cool. That’s basically it.” The ASR 10 is still one of the greatest music Keyboards of all time and helped to shape modern hip hop as we know it. The next keyboard Not used is the Triton Motif which he went on to comment about in the Red Bull music interview as well. Nottz also used The world famous SP1200. In the Red Bull Music Academy interview he was asked So how did you first start getting into making beats? He responded “My father, he was a DJ and my oldest brother was a DJ. He would make beats when I was a little kid, him and three of my brothers. Every one of them was different. My oldest brother did some funk beats, the one under him did more like hip-hop shit, the brother older than me was into Miami-sounding beats. So I took all that in, and was, “OK, this is what I want to do.” They really made me see there was different types of music that you could do. They got out of it, I stayed in with my manager here. I had a little seven-second sampler, a little keyboard. Every time I pressed sample on it, have a little sample up there, press it again and go over it, so it’s like overdubbing. I’ve got all this shit running at one time. It sounded like shit but it was cool to me. He let me hold his SP-1200 one day, make some beats. He taught me a lot on the SP-12. That’s basically it, man.” Nottz also used the EPS a good amount as well. According to the same interview he was asked “And you’ve been using ASR-10 since the beginning - you haven’t changed?. Nottz responded “First, my homeboy had the EPS, I was messing with the EPS. He saw I was getting good on his EPS, he didn’t want me to come over no more. “OK, I’ll fix you, dude.” But he messed up by introducing me to this money-making dude. The dude was like, “I see you do beats, what do you do your beats on?” “I’m using his EPS.” “You don’t got your own?” “No.” So he came past the crib and said, “OK, come outside for a minute.” So I came outside. “You want a keyboard?” “Yeah.” Put me in his car, went and got a keyboard. Man, I’ve been banging out shit ever since. I don’t even go to that dude’s house no more, “I don’t need you no more, boy.” That’s how it came. Damn, dude [laughs].” Last but not least Nottz is known to use the Native Maschine MK1. You can see him in this video using the Native Maschine MK1.
Nottz have produced some of the most critically acclaimed hip hop songs and albums of all time and helped push hip hop to where it is today. He’s gone on to produce for a lot of the greatest artists like J Dilla, Drake Kanye West, and 50 Cent. Shoutouts to TBSDrinkTeam, Crazy_ Chimpanzee and Jawaz Shabazz for the recommendation to cover Nottz. If you have a producer that I haven’t done yet put in the comment section below. If you are interested in any of the equipment I spoke about in this video I have included a link to it in the description below. Thanks for watching.

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You mean Yamaha Motif , Korg made the Triton