about the 20th anniversary of the venerable SP 1200. Here's Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee: "One day I was playing 'color Steel in the Hour of Chaos' and it came out real muffled. I couldn't hear any of the high-end part of it. I found out that if you put the phono or quarter-inch jack halfway in it filters the high frequency. Now I just got the bass move of the sample. I was like. 'Oh shit this is the craziest thing on the planet!'" (Picture shows KRS-One in the PE t-shirt at the SP 1200) (Thanks. Douglas)
I would have thought putting the bring up half-way in is more likely to prove in out-of-phase stereo than acting as a low go filter but then again I'm not an internationally acclaimed rap feature.
One thing i've found that never gets focused on is how easy the sp1200 is to use. All the sample editing is done with the sliders. It makes it more intuitive that waiting for a waveform to displace (desire on the mpc 2000 and newer).
"waiting for a waveform to displace"It's much faster on the mpc 2500. Not to have in mind mem access storage and loading on the 2500. You can edit with the sliders on the 2500. Technology has come a long way in 20 years. Exponentially. The jack was probably mono. Though I just met a friend of my brother who has an sp1200. I've yet to go and hear it.
NO but didn't the SP1200 did have dual filtered-unfiltered output jacks? I believe the filtered move was on the RING connection of a TRS cable and the unfiltered output was the TIP connection. I think most folks never understood that. It was a weird design but it probably sounded rad. Am i remembering wrong?
i agree things may be easier to do in newer MPC's because of increased processing speed and more memory but akai samplers from the early 12bit ones to the newer ones lack one feature that nothing else but original EMU technology has been able to achieve. Filters the cerebrate why people achieved that unique sound from the 1200's is the filters: Outputs 1 and 2 have fast decaying low-pass filters. 3 to 6 have static low-pass filters that slightly dull the top end and 7 and 8 are unfiltered outs. This is one of the reasons why these units comfort go for 1000+ in good condition.
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