Wallace wrote:Hey thanks for the info. Which unit do you have the effects on? Are the MPC effects similar to the 3k? I have always wondered about the eb16 for the MPC, but generally people seem to think it isn't worth it. Delay, reverb and eq are really the only fx I need, if that.
Atm I have been eqing things on my Rane MP2016 before it hits the 2kxl, this requires foresight however into how you think a sample will be worked into the track. As for reverb, I just try to sample claps etc with large tails, no shortage of those in my record collection. That "forget me not" record gets sampled every time, that clap just sits nicely with anything else.
No problem man. I got it on the MPC, but yeah it's the same board for both, the EB16. The fx definitely aren't anything to write home about, but they get the job done especially on short verbs for drums. Put it this way: I probably wouldn't ever have gone out of my way to get one, but I had to buy a new 2K & I found one with the EB16 included. But it does fit nicely into my workflow.
And yeah EQing beforehand can be tricky, but again with practice & experience you can at least get it very close, then tweak after recording. Personally I just do the most heavy-handed EQing before I hit the MPC and all the real tweaks once I've recorded it back in,
