Emmy Winning Composer | Producer | Mix Engineer
Baby Brown
Grammy-nominated producer and second-generation musician from the West Coast hip hop scene, with credits including DJ Rectangle, La Mala Rodriguez, Eminem and Xzibit.
Biography
Brown first appeared on the West Coast Hip Hop scene as a session Guitarist for Platinum Producer, Warren G DeeJay and DMC freestyle Turntable Champion DJ Rectangle. Under Rectangle’s tutelage Brown fast moved into beat making, production and engineering. With so many artists coming through the studio he quickly became most artists’ favourite tracking engineer thanks to his deeply involved style and willingness to push performers’ limitations whilst simultaneously empowering them as artists.
A second-generation musician and Grammy-nominated producer, Brown started out recording on a 4-track cassette machine, which led to a label contract in his mid twenties. His credits also include work for Hollywood Records, Disney+ and HULU.
Today he works almost entirely in the box: the input chain is analogue outboard gear, and everything after it runs on plugins, which makes the quality of those plugins central to his productions.
“I like EQ’s that are not full of numbers and on the Backs Pro EQ it’s very easy to blow some Pultec-esque voodoo on the bottom end before dialing up the frequency which cunningly just spreads the already broad curve, adding without undoing your initial setting. Brilliant.”
“The Motone Pro is a remarkably user-friendly EQ. I tend to work in stepped mode as I dig the fixed frequency choices. You can do surgery without being surgical and then there’s that phase-free stereo widener which allows you to place your signal in the sweet spot almost every time.”
“Prestige Racks is a Banga. I love that there are limited ‘500’ units available but it’s enough to handle most situations. The Gate on the output is not only smart it’s effective and intuitive to dial in fast, to clean up if you’re rinsing the preamp particularly hard. A really useful and well thought out plugin.”
