MPC5000 reviews, bug reports and fellow user support on the most recent standalone, hardware MPC from Akai
By wig Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:48 pm
what's up guys-
anyone point me to the "old school" default parameter settings for the master EQ and compressor?
i'm a sp-404/garageband user curious about replicating the 5000's supposed vintage sampler sound.

a friend of mine with a JJ OS 1000 was showing me about the preset master EQ settings on there (boosted at 60Hz, 3kHz & 8kHz, cut at 500Hz) and i like to use that on the master EQ in garageband
By tomazzzi Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:45 pm
You can try with a bit reducer or something like that

The vintage effect on the 5000 is suposed to be like a reduction from 16 to 12 bits to give you that vintage sound ...

To be honnest i don t really like it, it doesn t sound " vintage " at all to my ears