In this video, I look at the Air Channel Strip which is an all-in-one plugin with EQ, Gate, and Compression, and demonstrate some of the ways I use it when mixing in the MPC standalone.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:19 Air Channel Strip breakdown
02:44 Mixing a House beat
12:57 Mixing a Boom Bap beat
18:05 Mixing a vocal
23:35 Outro
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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