Dr. Dre Breaks Down The Sonic Secret Behind “2001”

[@sms130official]

This is why Dr. Dre has and continues to have an edge over a lot of producers because he's a technician. He's not just a producer, beatmaker, musicians, and artists. He's also an engineer and a mixer. He's been doing this for nearly 40 years. Salute

[@DarkTrapStudio]

Thats called an engineer don't want to be mean but Its a lot more than a technician cause he know both

[@sms130official]

@@DarkTrapStudio My point is that Dre is more than just an average producer. Because Dre had experience in the various parts like engineering, mixing, and even beatmaker (much of that prior to becoming a producer); it give Dre an edge over a lot of other producers and it's been proven. Dre is one of the best to ever do it, as an artist as well as a producer. That's that.

[@robertcrockett4858]

"The Wash" soundtrack is super slept on and it's damn near as good as the chronic 2001

[@normalhuman7840]

cleanest beat i've heard man

[@BKEFilmsUS]

The most underrated and forgotten part about the brilliance of 2001 is that it came out in the 1st wave of Down South dominance. When the album was announced, I waited to see if Dre would bite the South in any shape or form to stay relevant. He didn't. He kept his tempo. He stayed true to himself while coming up with some entirely new, original material. The popular sound at the time was purely Down South with No Limit, Cash Money, Suave House, Three 6, UGK, etc. dominating and New York was doing their thing with Rocafella, Ruff Ryders, etc. NOBODY from the West Coast had anything successful out. There was no such thing as a West Coast sound. G-funk would have sounded outdated. To drop a classic in the middle of that without conforming to anything going on around him was amazing.

[@GHOST-nk9im]

What about mack 10 and xzibit

[@darkskinwhite]

​@@GHOST-nk9imMack10 is a legend, shoutout to em. Xhibit wasnt commercially successful until after Chronic 2

[@GHOST-nk9im]

@@darkskinwhite i feel u ngl tho i like cali rap from 97 to 01 better than the death row ruthless era i feel like the best lyricists from the west are from around that time ras kass xzibit yukmouth cbo jayo felony kurupt brotha lynch hung ik they didn't all come out around that time but that's around the time line that they dropped they dopest shit btw i think war and peace is better than cube's early shit unpopular opinion but dgaf

[@gemsound]

One of my top 5 favorite albums of all time…I still play this today like it’s 1999.

[@sirenloud]

I always said the chronic 2001 was the best sounding album of music of modern music history was so crisp it was like 2001 space Odyssey I totally get what he was doing it was that good sounding crisp if you have a good stereo system try listening on flock audio or get the actual vinyl such a great listen to beginning to end especially the lowrider bouncing in the beginning of the skids it's just such a great album God damn thank God

[@showmecreationsmultimedia]

I was surprised in 2018, after not listening to it in 14 years, of how chronic 2001 aged so well. But still, nothing dre made ever compares to Tha Chronic. the first one. 2001 still sounds weaker in comparison imo.

[@thenotoriousroc3508]

@@showmecreationsmultimedia a few classics y'all mentioned💯😤😤

[@Ehgg-]

@@showmecreationsmultimedia I like that Dre wasn’t afraid to use more features on this album too, it felt like a true showing of everybody not just Dre

[@averagesavage8367]

I'm so glad Guru mentioned Quincey Jones in that tweet, everyone needs to go back and listen to Thriller on CD, no streaming, or better yet, Thriller on vinyl, and appreciate and recognize Quincy's golden ear decades before Dre and technology

[@dianevrules]

Quincy Jones didnt mix those albums. He didnt master those albums. He didnt even play most of the instruments on there. he produced those albums. So wtf are you talking about???

[@averagesavage8367]

​@@dianevrules Albums? You're slow. I only mentioned one album. He produced every song other than 4 him and MJ co-produced. Do you know what a producer does? They make beats. If you are a master like Quincey, they shouldn't need to be mixed and mastered so much as to alter the original sound. Dr. Dre barely did any work on 2001. Mel Man made most of the beats, Scott Scorch on Still D.R.E., Jay-z and the D.O.C. wrote most of the lyrics.

[@insighttheformula]

I liked chronic 2001 better than the first one.. crazy thing is the first chronic is what made me fall in Love with hip hop

[@The808Mixmaster]

Better maybe sonically quality wise but I do think the first one was a lot more raw

[@weaselwardance1380]

Oh wow, work on the bass and mids. Now we all know his best kept secrets

[@gregh_777]

lol thats what i thought

[@MrDoublebeats]

I'm glad that you made this because so many producers make music for producers and not listeners

[@angelochavez3540]

That doctor Dre album was a classic One of the best Albums that ever dropped

[@dianevrules]

The Chronic or Efil4zaggin are my favorites. Because they were raw af and not just loud af mastering. Dre 2001 didnt have a lot going on in the instrument departments. So it was easy af for most engineers to make those frequencies work together. Dre's Compton album or The Contract are better examples. Since he had a lot of instruments going in those songs

[@juliuswilkerson8779]

Man I’m from Pittsburgh, 3 words. The Mel-Man!

[@TheImpalerBEATS]

isn't my favorite Dr. Dre album. is My Fav Album in this world.

[@JohnnyPbitch]

well then it is by default also your favorite dr dre album

[@pwg111291]

The Chronic & 2001

[@loron99]

One of my favorite albums of all time right up their with doggystyle and chronic #1 album

[@CHISENGA]

My Fav Dre production is on Doggystyle! My fav album by Dre is The Chronic from 1992 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@j2323j]

There is no other choice it’s facts Maybe murder was the case but I don’t think he did all the songs I could be wrong I nbk is flames tho

[@CHISENGA]

@@j2323j What is NBK?

[@SPAlNKY]

Dr. Dre is in my top 5 Hip-Hop producers of all time. Dre is way better than any Hip-Hop producer of today. None of these current producers can NOT mess with Dre 👊🏿

[@nelsonpoole1896]

He has 2 albums.....how could it not be one of somebodys favorite albums of his?

[@fresh2cool957]

He got 3 albums the latest one was 2015

[@EtherealHollows]

he has 4 albums.

[@nelsonpoole1896]

@@fresh2cool957 yes but us true fans dont like to consider that a true Dr Dre album. Its a soundtrack that happens to be made by Dr Dre

[@daviddixon7613]

@@EtherealHollows name them

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

@@EtherealHollows he only has 3. Chronic, 2001 and Compton. Im assuming you’re including that aftermath compilation he released after leaving death row and if so that’s not a Dre album

[@DanielGoldMcduckRose]

I just love listening to instrumentals on this

[@HussOnTheBeat]

Idk why I really thought he was finna give us an effects chain or something 😂 😂 😂

[@The808Mixmaster]

You just gotta be born with the ear for it simple and plain

[@SoGoool]

2001 is Classic

[@MultI-Beats]

Still waiting for that break down 💔

[@manlust5439]

hey dre you could make a vst plugin for producers how about this idea as a legacy for young producers? 😇💪

[@LytninStryke]

Chronic 2001 is amazing!!!! 🎵 🎧 🎹 🌿Dres the best!!!

[@kevthepoet]

I personally prefer the first Chronic but 2001 the mixing and mastering is perfect.

[@darkskinwhite]

The real secret is live instruments, sparse areangements, & the album was basically mastered twice.

[@Jjf109nine]

Ain’t no secrets here. Mixing 101

[@mickeynewlin]

Sooooo, what was the secret? Lol

[@martinchannel1355]

All Dre beats are underrated

[@samkelomsimango6109]

I still hv dat CD with no scratches

[@Schemez-16vhiphopbeatz]

I can make beats like dre I can't mix and master like dre tho his beats are crisp full everything is perfect from low end to hi and mid mans an artist on the mixing desk

[@BreeDxLeaD]

What's the secret?

[@thenotoriousroc3508]

only has but so many, ofc it is

[@leogolive]

2001 ain’t better than Efil4zaggin.

[@OperationChicago]

lmaoooooooo

[@ss4kaioken295]

2001 is def better than the chronic

[@eddie152bang]

Hell No

[@kingstonstreet3726]

Dr Dre is great at everything except being a good…

[@professorx2508]

Family Affair📠🤌

[@bloodgangbg529]

Wow

[@eddie152bang]

The Chronic is better then 2001

[@dzoquick3635]

The chronic duh 🙄

[@royalbillionsmusic]

🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@dastony1969]

Sonically 2001 really can't be touched. Still Dre by far is a perfect song......

[@dianevrules]

He mixed a few instrumental frequencies in that song. Not that hard, if you are a mix engineer who know wtf he is doing

[@dastony1969]

@@dianevrules and your point is???? I stand by my statements.....

[@glockseventeen233]

From the perspective of a sound engineer , Chronic 2001 sounds way better than the original Chronic album . The original has way too many samples and doesn't have a clean sound .

[@SweaterSwagg]

I think you mean "perspective", but we hear you

[@bossmedia4028]

You’re trippin. That’s why engineers don’t make good producers.

[@glockseventeen233]

@@bossmedia4028 You wouldn't be a very good sound engineer . The first CHRONIC album sounds horrible . It sounds like 40 metal trash cans falling down a flight of stairs .

[@showmecreationsmultimedia]

everything dre makes is sampled tho. He literally will have a song be drums and a bassline just to find out the bell notes were from a simon and garfunkel song fr lol

[@CurtisGabrielMusic]

Literally not one secret

[@jjbing3]

He didn’t give any secrets. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

The secret is called Scott Storch!

[@brunojosuequifanda3733]

Only play the keys Lol.Mel man is the one

[@eks67]

Nope. He was just playing the keys.

[@eks67]

@@brunojosuequifanda3733 Mel man? How so?

[@brunojosuequifanda3733]

@@eks67 alot of the drum work 0f 2001 was made by Mel man

[@eks67]

@@brunojosuequifanda3733 interesting. Those drums were revolutionary.

[@godbodyheru]

The secret is he aint produce it

[@LEXRAPS]

Dre said nothing there lol

[@martinsmith7368]

Go listen to the podcast. Don’t know why they cut it short

[@ggallintedtalk]

Madlib and Dilla are better than Dre

[@phathizwemaphanga9138]

Why is you hatin?

[@outbreak49]

@@phathizwemaphanga9138 why do YOU question the truth. let it be.

[@loron99]

Dilla was a good produce, but Dre is on another level. NWA, Doc, snoop, above the law , ‘em must I continue, lol

[@ezekielparker1359]

Better beat maker, not producer

[@ggallintedtalk]

@@loron99 Dre doesn’t actually produce beat you numbskull .. most of his best beats came form the 80s and in the 90s he was outshined by a list of producers even on AEOM he was outshined by Daz who ghost produced for HIM.

[@ThaSilentOne420]

storch made most them beats lol

[@joshingram071]

No he didn't. Scott only credited for keyboards. It's obvious you never read album credits before bc if you did you'd know that 22 years later 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@ss4kaioken295]

@@joshingram071 he did a few but not all

[@Vrie.]

Keep that venom to yourself..

[@GtheGreat1]

Storch played keys, he didn't make the beats or produce the records smh

[@TheRealLeonardWashington]

Mel Man had a larger fingerprint on them beats than both Dre and Storch if you wanna be real

[@ericques9974]

Wat to digital and plastic. Sorry, I love DRE, but this album was garbage, DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE. Plus he did not make all of those beats, lmao. So easy to trick you people.

[@thedrizzinator]

Its not mate