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The Portuguese shogun shares his secrets. Thanks bud, appreciate this!

preach brother... this the video weve all been waiting for. secret sauce

after 35 years of producing hiphop beats myself… i never get tired of listening to a talented and enthusiastic beatmaker who knows his gear. Thank you so much for inspiration with every video you drop.

Tegelar compression a secret weapon. Got one myself.

Nice workflow ✊ Great to see composing, sound designing and mixing rolled up in one 💯

Thx for sharing as there is definitely a difference in the sound and feel through each device.

This was dope man thank you for sharing! I would love a full tour foo!!

Thanks Marlow, you are giving me ideas that are really helpful and valuable… in the music industry I’m learning that people aren’t as transparent as you are and tend to keep secrets. I’m definitely looking at a hardware compressor for my outputs and like your signal chain. Thanks great video !

That was so dope. Very informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work 💯

Só ensinamento bom, Marlow! Sigo na sintonia 🙏

Great video Marlow! I loved seeing this. I need to get into rack mounts!

Thank you for sharing Marlow, appreciate you for all the gems. Much respect brother 🫡

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

✌🏼thanks for tuning in once again 🔥

Thanks, for the lesson.

Great conversation and demonstration fam. I use almost the same chain, but gonna experiment with the X SE to Analog Heat to the SP-404MK2 with a few fxs, just to see what I can come up with 🙏🏾✊🏾💚

Great video - excellent loop!

Great idea for a video. Loved seeing your outboard gear and got inspired to get some myself.

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Go for it!

The chimes and effects really POP through with that EQ and comp. Everyone hears the snare because its obvious but I love the life breathed into the subtle sounds. A+

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

YES that's the thing I love about the eq. Always brings extra harmonics.

Listened this on good speakers. The difference is extreme between dry and wet. Low end is more tamed but the huge difference is on the HF where everything sounds more organic and playful, almost "alive" you could say.. You make really good use of that gear

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing ✌🏼

@neorahmusic9245

10 ай бұрын

is this achievable with plugins???? Should I mix with plugin analog emulations like this? Im confused please help!!

@aristonmain

10 ай бұрын

​@@neorahmusic9245yes it's possible, everything is possible now. Especially these gears u see is alr on a software

hey marlow amazing. its night and day for sure. your channel and soccer is what brings me joy these days. haha. more videos please!

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! ✌🏼

Nice setup, simple and effective.

Great insight and valuable information, great video. Thanks.💎

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for tuning in to the channel 🔥

Awesome! That Electron Heat really colors that sound! Yes, please do a studio tour. Blessings!

Gracias por compartir esto bro, un gran abrazo

Dope mane.. definitely Diggs ya technique fo sho!🏆

I’d dig that full tour u were speaking about 🤙🏽

Sounds amazing! The main difference I spotted was on the snare. I'm making a Marlow type beat rn with your rhodes chords and I applied the some of the tricks here!

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

I guess when I m making the beat it is very dark and when I run it through these machines it brightens up the mix and adds harmonics.

Night and day. Informative video.

You are appreciated 💯

thank you for the inside!

the make up analogy is pretty funny & apt. some lovely gear you been acquiring man!!

Your videos inspire me to keep making more hip hop music!

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Happy to hear that!🔥🔥🔥

The mix knob on the Successor is a real nice touch

Wow good to see this video I want the heat unit!!!!

nice mix!

Impressive what the limiter does with the snare. Very snappy. Dope 🤜🏽🤛🏽

@SniggyMoo

11 ай бұрын

I wish Akai has a compressor where you can compress specific Frequencies.

Thanks!

I can dig this vid here bro

That Analog Heat tho🔥🔥🔥🔥👌🏽

We're def gonna need that full tour...

Yo this beat is hard! I would listen to this on repeat for hours on headphones while watering my garden. Peace!

@mpchead

10 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

The sound you're getting from that chain is gold bro, that anolog heat is doing a lot for the character while the rack gear is adding heft weight and dimension. I have a similar chain but with less expensive gear and an SP-303 instead of an anolog heat and instead of 2comps a Mic pre, comp then eq but I also have two and almost three different chains now. Great choice of gear by the way, the beat is ill as well sounds like some 90's Heltah Skeltah.

@3nochendtimesmusic925

11 ай бұрын

I think this is topic a lot of beat makers need these days since it takes sonics and sound quality to a level that plugins just can't achieve. Sorry for the rant but this vid got me hype, anyway keep doing you're thing Marlow and stay humble bro I really admire that about you. Peace!

@neorahmusic9245

10 ай бұрын

is this achievable with plugins???? Should I mix with plugin analog emulations like this? Im confused please help!!

@celestial5693

4 ай бұрын

@@neorahmusic9245there’s no harm in trying. Plugins although (imo) aren’t at the level of outboard have definitely gotten better in the last few years. The main thing is if it sounds good, then that’s it!

Magic PURE Magic!

Dope brother ! ! !

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

🙏🏼

Nice!

Goated with the sauce 🥵

This was right on time been on the fence between a big six or neve 542 tape emulators and various 500 gear etc. I got a 2-3k budget and looking for that sauce to add to my live 2

Man, night and day difference with the external processing on and off! Great beat and great sound too!

@dans5529

11 ай бұрын

Oh, and a full studio tour would be cool to see too for sure.

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Appreciate it! ✌🏼

Thanks for putting us on game time after time 🙏 this one shouldnt be taken lightly

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

🙏🏼

Thank you Marlow Diggs. I recreated this Chain in Abelton and my beats feels more alive now!!

@beatsbyattarus80

10 ай бұрын

Interesting! I also use Ableton. which plugins are you using to recreate this setup?

@BussBoy22

10 ай бұрын

The secrets in the stock plugins

Obvious improveme ts of sound. Thanks for the jewels

I’ve bought some of your drum kits before and thought the kicks were way to heavy to work with but now seeing that this being the work flow they’re being utilized in I gotta give em another go

Assuming you "mix" in the MPC this is crazy to hear what some good stereo processors can do..Boom!

Ur boom bap is that! Soulful also! I’m going to work on me a rack!

super interesting and inspiring, thnx ✌️ btw i just today traded my Analog Heat MK1 against a OTO BOUM … i do not yet have the boum here but will get it on monday. It has saturation and compression… that’s why i wanted to get it. :)

Nice been thinking of getting the symph for awhile… it’s sounding great & the m/s functionality is sweet. 👌

@mpchead

Күн бұрын

I love it!

@eyesintheskies

Күн бұрын

@@mpchead thats good to hear, been able to boost the bass in the middle & keep the highs on the sides crisp sounds ideal & adds a ton of versatility. Im sold!!!

Great vid especially for a novice like me. Thanks for sharing. Was gonna ask more about Analog Heat but just found your vid from a couple of years back doing a deeper dive on it...nice. Much appreciated! 🫡

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Wow thats a huge amount of processing and compression. The result sounds like a less extreme version of the vinyl sim on the sp303. I find the vinyl sim sound to get fatiguing quite quickly though

Each pass sounds good then gets better & better with each processor added. Please share some of your Analog Heat presets

Full tour ❤

Dope Spaceship Men ! ❤

Awesome video man, thanks for sharing! I wish I would have invested in outboard equipment instead of a ton of different samplers lol. Can't believe the difference these make...!

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

You and me both! Spent some money on samplers that get hardly used.

holy shit, that side by side comparison

Cool rig

Analog Heat🔥🔥🔥

wow

I'd love to see the full tour for sure. Really interesting that the final touch is just a limiter in your DAW. You really don't mess with it much after the rack units?

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

No I don't, after it passes the machines it is done.

Huge Difference well rounded everything. I've been producing over 20+ years mainly on Reasons so I decided to buy the MPC Live and Roland Integra 7 a couple weeks back. Man the sound from digital to analog is so much lovelier lol. I have the Audio Scape Comp, Distressor and Dbx 160A which now I will start adding to my beats after watching your video. I would have to record into Protools because man I can't keep rewiring cables 😅Thanks a lot for the video..

@whawha9016

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like you got rich parents or a very well-paid job?

@prodcountryjames

11 ай бұрын

@@whawha9016 Far from rich parents its call Sweetwaters, Zzounds, Some TV placements and overtime, plus years of saving lol.

The brain of that chain is THE Prism however. Without that Benzo sound card the rest of this chain can’t perform as well as it is. This is 🎯. Amazing video!

@mpchead

10 ай бұрын

💯

thx boss

That Tegeler Audio Magnetismus 2 sounds amazing...

Congrats on over 70k subs..... 100 plaque coming soon

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Yeah working on it 🙏🏼

🔥🔥🔥

Cudos and props to you for acknowledging that you can get very far with olugins nowadays. Is this the mk1 analog heat? I also like some analog sauce so i bought a Oto Boum. Mostly cause of the workflow. Not because i cant get there with high end plugins . I once in a while need to turn some knobs for a change i guess :-)

How come you don't do Q&A's??

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

You want a q&a?

The punch and clarity that your beats have is always so pleasing to listen to. Do you / have you found the fx within the mpc live 2 and x to be on par with your external gear or do you find that they lack something that you look for when mixing? Or is it simply your love of buying and using different gear because i can totally understand that I'm the same way lol. Always look forward to these types of videos!!

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

I love gear, I feel that all gear has its own sound and feel, they're all different and all have they're unique magic. Plugins in the mpc are the same, some have traits that I can't replicate on the analog gear.

@GrabThoseKeys

11 ай бұрын

That makes perfect sense. As I'm still early in my beat making journey I find myself trying to use the plugins on the mpc live 2 and X to see what fx I like and from there I'll venture out to buying gear because I like gear 😂. Catch you on the next video. Thanks!

+ working with actual hardware is so much fun. I love playing around with knobs and buttons and turn an analog signal into the red which is simply not possible when you‘re only working inside the box. Nothing wrong with taking the best out of both worlds. PEACE!

Dope video. Need some gear.

Great very informative video. Do you ever use the analog heat on the ins for the MPC when sampling vinyl? I am strongly considering analog heat and/or a MPC Black Lion XB Mod for my MPX X SE

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Never used it for sampling but I do run my samples through it after I sample.

Word to the Pulp Fiction VHS tape. That thing got me laid a lot back in the day.

Those Heritage units bro 🤗

Thanks for sharing some secret sauce, every producer go their little secret chain that usually stays a secret, so do you monitor through the whole chain as your making the beat or do you bypass them and engage them after the beat is done trying to get the best sound striaght out of the MPC before recording.

Do you have any advice for making heavy plunderphonics esque music like the stuff of the Avalanches on the modern MPC?

Very interesting and unorthodox method. How do you deal with frequency clash between tracks since you are mixing directly the output? Do you do anything else than just gain staging inside the MPC? Peace

Soo much crispier with the gear!!! Do you still mix inside the Mpc??

Hi Marlow, love the channel. Very helpful. So I was looking into buying either an analog heat or add an Akai S950 to my setup (MPC Live 2 + Macbook) to add some character to my sound. I've had an S900 in the past but am unfamiliar with devices like the analog heat. I saw you use the MPC60 for it's sound so I was wondering which made more of an impact on your sound. The MPC60 or the Analog heat? Thnx and keep up the good work!

@mpchead

6 ай бұрын

The analog heat is better for sound, no brainer.

@FolieEnPublic

6 ай бұрын

​@@mpcheadCool thanks! I'm going to try one.

Great video. I personally separate all my sounds out of my MPC being that it has 8 outs plus the stereo outs for a total of ten outputs. I use the 8 outs for mainly drums and the stereo out for the main sample. I double and triple my kicks to sound really punchy. From there, in the mixer, I have outboard EQs, compression and effects which puts the icing on the cake when it comes to the sound. After all that, I record into the DAW and finish there. Or I go completely dawless and record straight into a DAT recorder to keep the mix completely warm. That's how I make my music smack hard.

@neorahmusic9245

10 ай бұрын

is this achievable with plugins???? Should I mix with plugin analog emulations like this? Im confused please help!!

@georgegeez8708

10 ай бұрын

@neorahmusic9245 Hey, from what I know, it is achievable. I just personally use outboard gear to achieve my sound. But yes, there are plug-ins that mimic certain outboard gear that can give you the sound you are looking for.

@neorahmusic9245

10 ай бұрын

@@georgegeez8708 Thanks

@NME_REK

8 ай бұрын

Always know plug ins are secondary and trying to mimic the real version of hardware gear

You oughta get a wood rack for those my dude, the wood racks are sick. Plus you won't see all the exposed wiring.

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

I like this one because it has wheels and I can move it around the studio

Good video. My racks are my sound. I'm so confident in my signal chain it doesn't matter the sampler or synth I start with

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

Same here!

Do you ever use the envelope follower on the Analog Heat to reduce the dynamic range/glue things together....works well

@mpchead

10 ай бұрын

Because of the compressors I don't have that need but yes that option works well.

Do you have a video on how to use the akai mpc X se ?

I don’t have the patience for these particular chains. I get it though. I’m just not ready for that complicated learning curve at the moment. Can’t wait till I am though.

Marlow do you ever bother going out to cassette tape once it’s all mixed etc ? Is so what tape deck do you use

you should sell your analog heat user settings.

Is there a VST, or more than one VST, which can be a substitute for all of this nice hardware?

Great stuff! I have good hardware gear and good plug-ins. I feel that I can get 'my sound' with both... but I wouldn't say it is the same sound. Analog has it's flavor. Last year I ran most daw mixes in and out to a tascam tape deck and it added a lot of vibe. I also use hardware api eqs and UA 4710 pre and comp in the same way. I'd say about 70% of my stuff uses analog. Is it necessary... nope... do I (almost always) like the anaolg sound better... yup. Still thinking of selling a bunch of gear for the Heat+fx or possible the SSL big 6 mixer (which has comp too).

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

What tape deck?

@dracul74

11 ай бұрын

@@mpchead tascam 414. I love it. Great for sampling and running mixes through. Has a knob to record at different tape speeds… great for slowing down recorded parts for warbley sounds. I bought a rebuilt one and it works like new.

@mpchead

11 ай бұрын

@@dracul74 tascam made some great tape decks, I want a new one too. Just looking around to see what is available.

@neorahmusic9245

10 ай бұрын

is this achievable with plugins???? Should I mix with plugin analog emulations like this? Im confused please help!! Also Im afraid that with plugins the end result will always be piercing , harsh and unpleasant , or is that just my mixing skills, and is pleasing and nice very well possible with digital without it sounding painful?

@dracul74

10 ай бұрын

@@neorahmusic9245 there is no right answer (imo). There are several good tape and lofi plugins. I do prefer real tape though.

Hey there, great video as always. Just wondering if you're not getting any crazy latency from going through that Analog Heat. Thanks!

@mpchead

6 ай бұрын

I don't think I have any problems with latency with the Heat.

@sergenakauchipelletier7286

6 ай бұрын

Just read a lot of comments of people experiencing a lot of latency when using the Elektron with their DAW, some even a tiny bit as stand-alone @@mpchead

Quick question about your Echolette. I see you have individually attached inputs to its channels. My current setup has a 12 channel analog mixer where I have everything plugged into (all my instruments/synths) and I have the Echolette set up as an Effects Send/Return. This way I keep the echo settings on input 1 at max and use the Effects Send to control the dry/wet mix (which is what the echo knob on the echolette does). Is there a reason you went with your setup?

Marlow! I have a question. My mix bus comes out of my daw. My first hardware gear for the mix bus was the analog heat, but now I added the warm audio 273 preamps. Would you still have the analog heat as the first thing the mix bus hits over the preamps, or would it make sense to put it after the eqs and compressors to add a little last second character?

Sounds rad my man! Out of interest what type of saturation is the Analog Heat doing? bit of saturation and EQ, or is it just the saturation? it's kind of bringing out the mids and a high kinda like running things through a blended in / really clean guitar amp or something .

@mpchead

10 ай бұрын

Saturation EQ and filtering

@alexmarkwell6595

10 ай бұрын

@@mpchead dope. Thanks legend.