Of course, the pops and clicks are caused by the MPC not having a selectable buffer rate. I've owned the big six for over a year and I never get pops and clicks with my MPC. Since getting my Big Six I've only used my MPC live in controller mode since the MPC support for external interfaces is absolutely atrocious and the MPC standalone converts sound like muddy shit when compared to the converts on the B6
This video is incorrect. The big six analog path "clips" when you hit the red meters. The digital path is calibrated so that 21dB == unity. Please refer to the manual to gain a better understanding of the big six.
Do you have details about how the MPC meters are calibrated? The B6 meter clearly has ample headroom but it was the MPC meter that was showing clipping when the MPC registered “above 0”. When the MPC shows 0, the resulting imported track in Logic was showing 0 as well. This is the part I am confused about. Let me know what you think is going on here.
I watched it again, when the B6 master hits red, that’s when the MPC shows above zero clipping. So it’s actually pretty correlated - red on the master B6 = red on the MPC. In retrospect, that’s not “super sketchy” at all as I said in the vid. Thanks for making me watch it again. The relevant section of the B6 manual is: Appendix B ADC and DAC Converter Alignment Level 0 dBFS +24 dBu When the B6 meter touches red at +24dbu, the ADC hits Full Scale, and the MPC sees 0dbFS.
@@brandonlewis5444 Well I was partly wrong and you were partly wrong. The big six mix bus does not clip at 24dB. The big six mix bus has 27dB of headroom. The mix bus clips at 27dB, the channel line amps clip at 27dB, the channel EQs clip at 27dB, the channel compressors clip at 26dB, the mic amp clips at 27dB, the stereo line ins have 27.5 dB of headroom before clipping, etc. Only the ADCs clip at 24dB. So I was correct that there is about 3dB difference in headroom between the analog paths of the mixer and the converters.
@@brandonlewis5444 Regardless... you should NOT be coming into your converters that hot. You generally want at LEAST 6dB of headroom for mastering. You will start getting harmonic distortion as you hit the yellow meters which becomes noticable i n the last 3dB of headroom especially since transient peaks can easily clip. I try to keep the peaks of my mix at 15dB which leaves plenty of headroom for mastering. When mastering I come out of the big six at about 21dB and software limiters to bring the overall volume up once I've printed through my hardware inserts
Hey brandon i got a question about the combo you got going. Is it possible to record all the diffrent channels from the big6 into the mpc at the same time. Lets say you got 4 tracks in the mpc going thru the b6. Then on the recording side of the mpc is it possible to print 4tracks at the same time?
Good question. I’ve had others interested in this and some that suggested the interface might fall apart with multi-play back and multi-record. I’ll try to come up with some example and make a new vid on this. Got a busy month coming up, so it may be a bit.
@@brandonlewis5444 What are you talking about "the big six might fall apart with multi-playback and multi-record". Stop plugging your B6 into your MPC if you don't want to have problems. I've never had an issue recording multiple tracks while simultaneously outputting audio to other tracks. It's kinda stupid to multi-record on the MPC though since the MPC audio tracks are so weak. I prefer to first record my midi into the MPC and then use the sampler to record any audio output from my keyboards. You could use audio tracks as well but make sure your MPC is not truncating the sample when the sequence ends. I prefer to multi-track record from Logic which is where all my MPC projects end up when I'm ready to "finish" them
@@CharlesPantoga slow your roll dude :-). I did NOT say anything about the Big Six falling apart - don’t quote me saying that in the comments. . I offered to make a video for a viewer that requested it.
Just the video i need. Have you figured out how to stop the pops and clicks going back in doing a full beat?
Of course, the pops and clicks are caused by the MPC not having a selectable buffer rate. I've owned the big six for over a year and I never get pops and clicks with my MPC. Since getting my Big Six I've only used my MPC live in controller mode since the MPC support for external interfaces is absolutely atrocious and the MPC standalone converts sound like muddy shit when compared to the converts on the B6
This video is incorrect. The big six analog path "clips" when you hit the red meters. The digital path is calibrated so that 21dB == unity. Please refer to the manual to gain a better understanding of the big six.
Do you have details about how the MPC meters are calibrated? The B6 meter clearly has ample headroom but it was the MPC meter that was showing clipping when the MPC registered “above 0”. When the MPC shows 0, the resulting imported track in Logic was showing 0 as well.
This is the part I am confused about. Let me know what you think is going on here.
I watched it again, when the B6 master hits red, that’s when the MPC shows above zero clipping. So it’s actually pretty correlated - red on the master B6 = red on the MPC.
In retrospect, that’s not “super sketchy” at all as I said in the vid. Thanks for making me watch it again.
The relevant section of the B6 manual is:
Appendix B
ADC and DAC Converter
Alignment Level 0 dBFS +24 dBu
When the B6 meter touches red at +24dbu, the ADC hits Full Scale, and the MPC sees 0dbFS.
@@brandonlewis5444 Well I was partly wrong and you were partly wrong.
The big six mix bus does not clip at 24dB. The big six mix bus has 27dB of headroom. The mix bus clips at 27dB, the channel line amps clip at 27dB, the channel EQs clip at 27dB, the channel compressors clip at 26dB, the mic amp clips at 27dB, the stereo line ins have 27.5 dB of headroom before clipping, etc. Only the ADCs clip at 24dB. So I was correct that there is about 3dB difference in headroom between the analog paths of the mixer and the converters.
@@brandonlewis5444 Regardless... you should NOT be coming into your converters that hot. You generally want at LEAST 6dB of headroom for mastering. You will start getting harmonic distortion as you hit the yellow meters which becomes noticable i n the last 3dB of headroom especially since transient peaks can easily clip.
I try to keep the peaks of my mix at 15dB which leaves plenty of headroom for mastering. When mastering I come out of the big six at about 21dB and software limiters to bring the overall volume up once I've printed through my hardware inserts
Hey brandon i got a question about the combo you got going. Is it possible to record all the diffrent channels from the big6 into the mpc at the same time. Lets say you got 4 tracks in the mpc going thru the b6. Then on the recording side of the mpc is it possible to print 4tracks at the same time?
Good question. I’ve had others interested in this and some that suggested the interface might fall apart with multi-play back and multi-record. I’ll try to come up with some example and make a new vid on this. Got a busy month coming up, so it may be a bit.
@@brandonlewis5444 What are you talking about "the big six might fall apart with multi-playback and multi-record".
Stop plugging your B6 into your MPC if you don't want to have problems. I've never had an issue recording multiple tracks while simultaneously outputting audio to other tracks. It's kinda stupid to multi-record on the MPC though since the MPC audio tracks are so weak. I prefer to first record my midi into the MPC and then use the sampler to record any audio output from my keyboards. You could use audio tracks as well but make sure your MPC is not truncating the sample when the sequence ends.
I prefer to multi-track record from Logic which is where all my MPC projects end up when I'm ready to "finish" them
@@CharlesPantoga slow your roll dude :-). I did NOT say anything about the Big Six falling apart - don’t quote me saying that in the comments. . I offered to make a video for a viewer that requested it.