Effects
Recently I've been working on some tracks to be released later this year which have a Old Skool vibe to them, one of the things I wanted to do with one of the tracks was to make it sound like it is being played on traditional vinyl by having a record needle put down at the start and then bring in the crackles, hum and sound just like a record. One...
Before I began writing this post I did a quick search on Google for Parallel Gating, to see what other sort of articles were already out there for it and came up with next to nothing, I found this a little strange as I have found it a great little technique to know which was taught to me on a studio course I went on a long time ago and yet seems...
The compressor can be one of the more difficult effects to get your head round using effectively, today I am going to show how to use it to make your beats sound noticeably louder using parallel compression, which is great for harder sounding genres of music. Firstly it is probably best to show you what the original beat sounded like before any...
This one has to be one of my all time favorite VST effects. I can remember when I first found it, I played with it for a good few hours and you probably will too.
I find it works well on drum beats as the video below shows. Glitch has 9 different effects which TapeStop, Modulator, Retrigger, Shuffler, Reverser, Crusher, Gater, Delay and Stretcher...
Fuzz is a great little effect which you can usually hear being used by guitarists. They work by clipping the sound which makes the sound wave a bit more square. We know of a great little VST plugin that we think most producers should add to their arsenal of effects and best of all it is free.
Audio Damage's FuzzPlus 2 is simple to use with just...
