Good question? on the other hand if u use strictly FL for your beats, I can tell so can a lot of other folks who's either used it before or who just have darn good ears for full,robust sound which FL lacks.

souljahman:

@ d lloyds, wat did u say about fruity loops?, i dnt care wat u use, i just want to hear your end result. Do u even knw anything about fruityloops or u are one of dose people dat criticise d software cos everybody has access 2 it? Plzzzzzzzzzzzz,

Guy! Don't even try! I breathe FL man! Don't get it wrong, its not a hate for FL, i mean if not for image line, a lot of folks would still be finding it hard to make there own songs. Consequently, it stole a lot of cheese from producers who make beats on some serious gear(so i understand why some people are mad at FL) The good thing bout Fl is that its got an open architecture unlike Reason, but the samples are quite lame especially drums, bass and pianos. The most powerful plugin I think, is the Sytrus, its got some killer synths!

Well, to compensate for the weak samples, just rewire Reason or Hypersonic into FL , or get some nice samples online or make yours and free your music from the cliche sound that comes with using FL the way it is.

Since you put it that way, let me ask you a few questions.
To get international standard music quality, you must follow strict procedures from scratch.
1. What is the quality of your mic
2. What is the quality of your preamp
3. Signal to noise ratio?
4. Quality of your samples, tone generators etc

Well, if all your answers meet international standards then you can get what you looking for.
Mixng & mastering engineers are not magicians, we can only work wonders with the materials u give us to work with.

We'll be willin to work with u on your project. If you willing to give us a try. Ever heard of reelmix studio? Thats our history.

ShotCaller:

I need a very good sound engineer to mix and master our songs,

Im may not be the best but I soooooooo darn good at what I do. Holla at us!

ElRazur:

Speaking of music and what not, you may want to post your studio here like some of us have done.


https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-406062.0.html

Done!
What you say? Shotcaller is looking for a sound engineer-the real one.

Soon I will find time to take some pictures but for now this is what Im privileged to work with.

Home Studio
Truth B2030 A Monitors
Shure Beta 58 Mic
Rode NT1A Mic
Mbox Mini
Euro rack UB 1002 mixer
UMX 25 midi controller
PSR 1000 Keyboard


Office Studio
C 24 with Focusrite Preamps
Command 8
Digi oo2 rack
Maudio Keystation Pro-88
Maudio Oxygen 49 midi controller
Mackie HR 626 Monitors
Alesis Mk2 Monitors
AKG C1000 & 2000
CAD GXL 3000 & 1200
Mbox 2
Bayern Dynamics DT150 Headphones

Softwares
Protools 8
Nuendo
Reason
About a ton of plugins, refills, samples & loops
Fruity loops(my first love)
wavelab & soundforge for mastering

ElRazur:

Producers?

Audio engineer?

Really? On nairaland? Half of these folks just knock a beat or two together, but I am not sure they qualify as Producer or Sound engineer. 


At the moment I am playing about with PreSenous Studio one. But I prefer the work flow of Ableton live. 

In my opinion, there are more beat makers than producers. Beat makers of the lowest cadre are the 100% fruity loopers, above those are dudes who's got a hang of the midi controller. On the other hand, there are some great producers who cant even play an instrument but could tell the instrumentalist what to play.

Audio engineers, I mean the real ones really do exist on nairaland. I know some SAE grads, Protools Operators, Live sound engineers here in Lagos and trust me they qualify. How much more of my trumpet should I blow?

Im pretty cool with using Nuendo/ Cubase Sx , the GUI is cool, flexible to use.

the only snag in it is how it rewires with Reason which is why Im now stuck on the new Protools 8. PT 7 doesnt really cut it for me in terms of GUI and plugins but PT 8 is a monster and for the fist time Im begining to see why its the most preferred DAW internationally.

He goes by the name Dipozit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OphDpwuJaJ0

www.myspace.com/diporap

DARREN LLOYDS STUDIOS
71A ABA JOHNSON CRESCENT, ADENIYI JONES IKEJA LAGOS
darrenlloydsstudios@gmail.com

Darren Lloyds studio is back again!

We are equipped with pro-equipments to give your song that edge that home recording studios cant give u. Experience the subtle difference.

Thanks to those who patronized us during our New year promo.

Now you can choose any platform that suits you.

Dammy_ray:

Please are you now going back to 55gees?, Just saw this topic today
and i fink i need to record at least 1 or 2 tracks?, when the bonan truly ending, need your reply to know maybe they extended it or somtin

Cheers

yeah we are supposed to go back to 55gees but we still have a back log of jobs from the promo, Just give us a call before monday, 'll see what we can do.

@churchboi. Yes we do analogue MTR as well. As regards choir groups, the promo does not cover those, however we could arrange some sort of discount for them during the duration of the promo.

The deal is simple. What we are doing is that the artistes will pay 15k-our standard studio session fee + 1k admin charges and that is it! The producer and engineers will be providing all other services for FREE!

Also, because of increasing demand on our studio time now because of the promo, its an artiste per song basis.

Thanks

shouts out to Phat Wall, Reelmix and TIC studios

Basically you need to add a fairly good mic, headphones and or monitors(speakers), some softwares like cubase, reason etc and you good to go! Hope that helps

Well,first all Classick, that for sure is the console I we have in our studio. Its a Digidesign C/24. I mean it aint goin to cost you nothing to verify that!

Secondly, I would be lying to say I didnt know bout Phat wall vs Dlloyds. Truth is the Dlloyds moniker is an open end one (all our engineers (5) and producer is got access to it) One of em started the beef-end of story!

Finally, the 16 gees a track is only going to last for a month and we back on 55gees(Entry level) a track.

Record your singles with music industry's standard equipment, experienced sound engineers and crazy producers with just 16 grand!
View flier for details.

Download or listen to something we made at: http://nigerianhiphop.net/blog/?s=dipozit

Thats one hot gospel rapper there. Seeing is believing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OphDpwuJaJ0

Gospel artistes always have it tough when it comes to air play, popularity etc so you dont get to see a whole lot of them. and be cos they few, u can only point to 1 or 2 but check this dude out and tell me what u think.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OphDpwuJaJ0

watch the ratings go through the roof! Pt 2 drops in 7days. Its like a sequel and it wont make sense to you if you dont have all the parts. So get pt 1 nw. http://rapidshare.com/files/301914413/Jones_connect.mp3

Well, if you asking bout who the hottest producer is, the answer is none! Cos the awards given to the popular producers sometimes aint accurate. how do you compare a donjazzy hip hop beat witth this underground producer \dipozit's production. Check it out yourself http://rapidshare.com/files/301914413/Jones_connect.mp3

Sorry bout the esnip link, guess it was server issues. I didnt know nigerianhiphop.net will upload it that fast! It was up under 24hrs which tells me the track is hot! so get yours at http://rapidshare.com/files/301914413/Jones_connect.mp3

Thanks yall for the support!

DARREN LLOYDS STUDIOS
Have a taste of the upcoming album 'Hall of Fame" produced by Dipozit in our studio. http://www.esnips.com/web/muzicdipozitbox-Music

Artiste: Dipozit
Album: HOF Mixtape
Producer: Dipozit
Track: Jones Connect pt 1 ft LOS

Info: Pt. 2 and 3 features Teeto and Sauce kid respectively. (Both songs under construction)

DARREN LLOYDS STUDIOS
Have a taste of the upcoming album 'Hall of Fame" produced by Dipozit in our studio. http://www.esnips.com/web/muzicdipozitbox-Music

Artiste: Dipozit
Album: HOF Mixtape
Producer: Dipozit
Track: Jones Connect pt 1 ft LOS

Info: Pt. 2 and 3 features Teeto and Sauce kid respectively. (Both songs under construction)

I don't mean to sound mean but Ive come across this name(phat wall) quite a number of times on naira land. My take is you guyz aint good for the music business, what kinda music you want to make for 18gees without compromising quality, when Id cabasa and the so called top producers get 100-150gees per track. just because u wanna EAT you selling stuff to guyz for 16 gees! Get a life bro and step up your game. I bet its just some fake ass, some piece of shit gadget u put together that you call a studio. I run a standard studio and i know how much it cost to put it together not to mention how much i put into tuition to study sound engineering. Stop calling ur crib or kiosk a studio. Its because of guyz like you that crappy sounding productions is flooding and corrupting the naija industry.

kstrika this message is not directed wholly to you.
I don't mean to sound mean but Ive come across this name(phat wall) quite a number of times on naira land. My take is you guyz aint good for the music business, what kinda music you want to make for 16gees without compromising quality, when Id cabasa and the so called top producers get 100-150gees per track.
just because u wanna EAT you selling stuff to guyz for 16 gees! Get a life bro and step up your game. I bet its just some fake ass, some piece of shit gadget u put together that you call a studio. I run a standard studio and i know how much it cost to put it together not to mention how much i put into tuition to study sound engineering. Stop calling ur crib or kiosk a studio. Its because of guyz like you that crappy sounding productions is flooding and corrupting the naija industry.

Welcome to Darren Lloyds Studios! (Powered by Holy Mics Productions)

We are arguably the best in Lagos but there is no contention that we've got what it takes to give our naija artistes the international standards in music production.

A visit to our Pro-tools based studios will convince you. Everyone (including Sound sultan, Black face, Puffy T etc) who has step foot into our studio can testify to the muse effect the place gives.

Pictures cannot describe enough but just an overview to turn on your imagination!

And a beat for the ears

Cost is relative because it depends on the magnitude of what you are doing.


Address: 71A Abba Johnson Crescent, Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja
for more info: 0803 0473796

Welcome to Darren Lloyds Studios where all your sound engineering problems end!
Cost is relative because the it depends on the magnitude of what you are doing.


Im a sound engineer and I wouldn't charge you the same thing for a 24 tracks, 5min song as I would for a 56 tracks, 10 min song (usually hiphop and fuji respectively)

But overview is

Studio Sessions are 12G TO 20G/Session (Depending on which of our studios)
Mix or Mastering - 10 - 20G (excluding session fees)

for more info: 0803 0473796

Well u just got one! Darren Lloyd studios is one of the most comfortable and sophisticated studio in Lagos. Its pro-tools based but we accommodate other platforms.
Prices are relative,depending on what you want to do. Call 080 3047 3796 for details