What is that effect??? - and how do you use it properly?
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Posted on Jan 06, 2003 11:12 pm
Bobert
Member Since: Jan 05, 2003
This (EQ? or filter?) is used widely in dance/pop/electronica
some riff is repeated 4 times:
first off it sounds very muddy/bassy,
gradually more mid range creeps in,
followed lastly by the treble
(and then comes the big drum fill - onto the chorus with normal sounding riff etc.)
What is this called?
How do pro's use it?
Do you perhaps program cubase to apply the effect from bars x to x+4 with a gradual rise form low to high? (i don't know - I am newbie) :P
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cruxTypo SzarMember
Since: Jul 04, 2002
Jan 06, 2003 11:46 pm I think u could try a very slow phaser coz that does kind of the same thing. but from what i imagine ur saying it sounds like there is a filter kind of sound involved and since i havent used a phaser in a long time i forget if it gives that same sound. but yeah i guess u could add a heavy filter then gradually decrease it as the bars go
juesContributor
Since: Dec 30, 2002
Jan 07, 2003 05:37 am The effect you are reffering to is called a "Low Pass Filter Sweep" and is very easily achieved (if you have a filter :)
Get your arpegio / riff going and then apply a Low Pass Filter (or LPF) with the resonance set just about half-way. Now slowly bring up the filter-freqency knob / slider.
Another very cool filtereing effect that is used in dance music is multi-filtering - This is where you take one lead line and filter it using 3 seperate Band Pass Filters (or BPF) set with a fairly high resonanace and filter-freq. (make that filter scream!)with the filter-freq controlled by a synchronised Sine Wave LFO's (so that they are all going all going at different speeds but eventually all meet up again) - eg: Have the first one at 1x (the original speed), the next at 2x (twice the original speed) and the thrid on 4x (four times the original speed).
It's not as complicated as it sounds and the results are awsome - especially when these 3 are panned in the mix, doused with a bit of cheesy 'verb and freqency combed with EQ - mmmmm, goa-tastic.
ps - buy a SuperNova II, you know you want to :)
--jues.
BobertMember
Since: Jan 05, 2003
Jan 07, 2003 09:17 pm Thanks for the info, exactly what i was looking for plus more
