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Akai MPC Tutorial. Air Enhancer Saturation & Harmonics. Secret MOJO Sauce in your mixes on the MPC.

The Crates Motel

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In this video, I look at the Air Enhancer and how I use it in the MPC standalone. With a combination of beefy low-end and crispy, bright highs, this unsung hero is pure MOJO!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:22 Quick description of the Enhancer
01:14 Enhance a LoFi beat
03:57 Beef up the lows
06:39 Phase button??
08:13 Live Bass enhancement
11:49 Air on a vocal
14:18 Outro

For mixing and mastering services feel free to email me at: conan@thecratesmotel.com

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Equipment I use:

Headphones:
Audeze LCD-X
Beyerdynamic 770/880/1990
Shure 535
Sennheiser HD25 MKII
Pioneer HDJ X10
Aiaiaia TMA-2 Wireless+

Presonus Studio One 6
RME ADI-2 DAC FS
SPL Phonitor 2
Presonus HP4 (My Grot Box)
Presonus Faderport V2
Arturia Minilab MKII
Novation 49SL MKII
Arturia Microlab
Akai MPC One
Akai MPC Live II
Roland SP404 Mk2

Content Creation:
Presonus Revelator IO24
Zoom H6 Recorder
Earthworks Custom Icon Pro Microphone
Sennheiser MKE 600 Microphone
Logitech Brio 4k Cam
Apple iPhone 12
DJI Osmo Mobile 6
OC White Ultima Mic Arm
Davinci Resolve
Filmic Pro

Knobs:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TXYBB7Z

Data Wheel:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R5THKZD

20 Comments

@eabeatmaker709 1 year ago

Nice man. I have been looking for the manuals or the specific sheets of every MPC one effects and found nothing, nothing except your videos!!! So big thanks to you! I appreciate a lot this content, every video of different the kinds of effects. You are very clever and straight to explain, I appreciate very much that too.
Thanks.

@icodejs 11 months ago

Love this plugin. I've been using it a lot lately to get drum breaks to sit better in my beats and thought I'd finally try and find out what it actually does under the hood. The fact there's not much documentation is a bit of a blessing in disguise as now we're forced to use are ears. Defo some black magic going on and I'm here for it 😜

@slavgeist9887 8 months ago

Youre a great teacher. Thx

@harrisg5 3 years ago

Another MPC tool demystified. Thank you

@Noise-Conductor 3 years ago (edited)

This is more gold in the bank! I hope you do 1 on the Amp Sims. You can get a lot of different sound textures out them for all kinds of sounds, not just guitars.

@spindlenine 3 years ago

Always love seeing your videos pop up in my subs. Another great one - keep them coming.

@manatee_flips6811 3 years ago

Hola, you giving away the special sauce!! Of course you are.....very, generous.
Get his drums, well crafted and sonically superior then most. I used that enhancer all over my last joint, 😆

@5thelementalsounds 3 years ago

Subscribed! Amazing information! I feel like I'm in class.

@guillll 3 years ago

Amazing, thank you ! I wasn't quite sure how to use this one.

@DJDigitalJosh 3 years ago

All of your videos are super helpful! Thank You! 👍

@morningbluesarewaste 3 years ago

Great content as always!

@riddim7774 3 years ago

👑

@PoZhiznenno 3 years ago

For me, your channel is a pleasant discovery.🔥🔥🔥🙏🏼

@DisraeliGears 3 years ago

Brilliant brilliant brilliant AGAIN!! Thank you so much for your content bro.

@bartboguski635 2 years ago

The Bass sounds mad nice!!!Great content...each evening i am appriciating your advices applied in creating.Thank You Bro.True teacher IT comes from the heart.Blessings

@philippebackprotips 2 years ago

Phase inverts the phase of the generated harmonics. (From an older ProTools manual).

@Mr.Gump5780 2 years ago

Very enlightening..thanks very much

@mikaleppaaho 2 years ago

This Air Enhancer has turned out to be quite useful for the finishing touch. I've used it on MPC 2 software. I think of it as a some sort of saturating eq. In the software when the gains are zero the high and low frequency knobs won't seem to do anything, only harmonics does. Anyways, I put the gains first really high to hear clearly the sweet spot when dialing the frequency knobs, then turn down the gains to proper level and then maybe fine tune a bit the frequencies because the sweet spot seems to move a bit depending on the gain level. Lastly, I dial the harmonics knob really carefully if at all, it makes sometimes a bit harsh sound quite quickly. The reason why it is good for the last finishing is that it is really simple and there's nothing visual meters so you really have to just trust your ears. Result is usually really smooth, clear but lush sound :)