MPC 500 with Mixer

I just bought an mpc 500 a few months ago and now my beats have really improved but i want them to sound professional and all. It sounds professional to me every time i export them through wav files but if i want to start getting them out to artists would i need to purchase a mix board to make it sound professional? and if so where can i get a cheap mix board?

A mix board is not goin to make your beats magically sound "professional" all of a sudden...you can practice mixing in the mpc it self as far as volume, panning, hi & lo pass filters, efx, etc... you will only achieve "professional" with lots of practice and lots of reading to understand what it is your doing or need to be doing to get the sound your going for. As far as a mixer http://www.zzounds.com/cat--Mixers--2846 pick one there's no wrong choice once you understand what your gonna be using it for....read read read! internet is a great resource

Alright thanks man ill read it and check it out

You'll see the professionals use all kinds of gear. Some of it ridiculously expensive and some of it incredibly cheap. It has been said thousands of times but it really isn't that much about the gear but the person who's using it.

A few thoughts though...

Learn your instrument as deeply as you can. The more you know about it the more you know it's limits and how to work around potential issues. Given that this is a sampler... remember garbage in garbage out. You're only as good as your samples and if you use bad samples you're pretty much setting yourself up to make bad beats. The difference between an okay drum and an insane drum can make or break a song, seriously.

Read up on layering drums, bass, leads, vocals, etc.... it can help you attain that sheen that may seem to be missing. A single kick drum off of a sample set everybody has heard a thousand times is boring... a wall of kick drums eq'd/fx'd properly can bring something new and unique to your sound.

Don't be afraid to use effects or do things you're not 'supposed' to. Some of the coolest and most interesting sounds come from mistakes. As an artist it is our choice to keep an awesome mistake and pretend we did it intentionally to begin with. A mistake made once may be an accident, but a mistake made twice in a row is intentional... don't forget that.

Can i record track 1 on my mpc and have it go to channel 1 and then go to track 2 and then have that record on channel 2 and so on?

Please do not double post. It does not make the inquiry any more important.

my bad well can u help me out?

A mixer will allow you to separate each track/instrument on your MPC to place into a DAW. It will not make it sound any better or worse unless you engineer it. You will need to apply a balance of eqing, compression, effects, and level adjustment to get a more "professional" sound. I personally do not have a mixer in my home studio where I produce and mix however in my commercial studio I have a mixer to allow me to tweak my audio as it enters the DAW. What you need to do is research and learn the functions of studio components so you can figure out what you need to achieve the sound you are looking for. The basic rule is garbage in, garbage out so a cleaner sound starts with your source. If you are sampling off low quality sources (LIKE YOU TUBE) then no mix in the world is going to restore the lost quality. Another thing to keep in mind is that cheap is not good and good is not cheap. If you purchase a cheap mixer you will not get the results as a mixer of higher quality/cost.

well last night i researched all about eqing and effects all of that so i no how to work the mixer but im confused about a few things
wen i hook up the cables from my mpc input to the output on the mixer do i hit record on the mpc and it records that one track on there and then do i switch the wires to channel 2 to separate track 2 or do i make the whole beat on my mpc and then track by track i export it on the mixer

Also how do u create a whole beat on a mixer and not just have it loop and how does the mixer record wen i read through wikipedia last night about mixers it didnt say anythin about recording

sorry i got alot of questions im just startin out on mixers used to mixin on the computer

Not tryn to diss but it seems like you may not fully have the concept of a mixer down.

Check out this site:
http://tweakheadz.com/

The basic relationship of the mixer and the MPC is audio out of the MPC to individual channels on the mixer. Those can then be tweaked then go to the DAW. But there are a number of different configurations. A good mixer can be used to route audio in a bunch of ways so I reccomend really understanding the features before jumping into a purchase. For those using samplers a mixer with 4 buses is always a plus. This way you can route anything to the DAW and anything coming into the mixer to the MPC. 8 buss gives you more flexibility but isnt needed for all cases.

dont worry about it i only started learning about it last night thanks for the help man

Not a problem homie.