I think some of the instrumentals on Efil4zaggin were Dres best. I was pretty much ranking them purely on an instrumental basis. I think those three albums and 2001 all have incredible beats on them, I probably couldn't choose if it was just how good the actual beats were.īut the thing that separates them for me is the rapping.Ooops, I kind of forgot all these albums had rapping The Chronic has mostly really entertaining rapping, but again a few tracks suffer from mediocre rapping, especially towards the end of the album, not as many as 2001 though.ĭoggystyle I think is the best in terms of entertaining rapping, pretty much all the verses are memorable and it's really consistent with none of them becoming obvious filler tracks. The Chronic to me is a very close 2nd though.I think those three albums and 2001 all have incredible beats on them, I probably couldn't choose if it was just how good the actual beats were.īut the thing that separates them for me is the rapping.Įfil4zaggin's rapping is ok but I always felt it was a little generic and swamped by the huge beats.Ģ001 has some great rapping on a few tracks, but also some of the rapping is pretty dull and I think that turns a bunch of the tracks into filler tracks, even though they have great beats. I personally think The Chronic, Efil4zaggin and Doggystyle were better albums, in that order, but I still feel 2001 was the best mixed. Those are things that can be seem as positives as well though, it's just a different sound.
I think the thing that makes 2001 sound a bit more sterile in comparison is that the drums sound a lot more programmed (rather than using looped drum breaks like on The Chronic), and there are so few instruments in each track that it sometimes sounds kinda stark. And a lot of it is still based on a classic-sounding combination of guitar and bass guitar (like on Xxplosive). I think 2001 does have a similar vintage quality to it as well, like the drum sounds do have grit to them, even though they are mixed big and clear. I don't know if the mixing itself helped to add to that, but I definitely get an overall classic feel listening to it. Also he stuck to instruments from the same time period as the stuff he was sampling, like the Moog keyboard. Though I think that's more to do with how he was still using drum break loops back then on a lot of the tracks and he wasn't getting every single part replayed, so there were still samples in there alongside the replayed bass and synths. it is really clean (especially compared to a lot of hip-hop at that time), but it still has a really vintage feel to it I think. Maybe he'll tweak the style for any upcoming mixing he's doing, will be interesting to see.įor me, The Chronic sounds the closest to the classic 70s records that Dre had been basing his stuff on.
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To get the clarity, he had to make all the instruments sound small and harsh (particularly the vocals) and also the vocals had so much of their frequencies removed that it was often hard to tell who was who.Īlso taking out the lower mids/upper bass made it sound less full and warm than 2001. It seems like his main goal was to have lots of instruments in a track and still have everything as clear as his usual stuff by really carving everything out with EQ and then getting rid of the lower mids so that they didn't swamp everything else.Īnd I think he did achieve that goal of having lots of very clear instruments.īut the problem is that it's not much fun to actually listen to, at least to me. I think compton was mixed / mastered in a way it sounds great at first listen but will tire / hurt your ears soon after it.Yeah, to me, Compton was a bit of a flawed experiment where unfortunately the good points are outweighed by the bad, so I'm conflicted on its mix. Especially because when it came out, everybody was awed by its sonics.