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| Alpha219 |
I hear this effect a lot where a high pass filter is gradually applied or gradually taken off of the bass and drums or the entire mix. Is this usually done at the mixing state within the multitrack software program, applying the filter to each individual track OR would people ever mix the whole thing down to a stereo track, then import it back in and apply the effect?
Same question with regard to when you want to come to an abrupt stop with no reverb or anything. Just automate everything including effects within the multitrack program without exporting a stereo track first?
Listen to this track. There a lot of fancy stuff going on like I'm talking about...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB263orr340 |
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| itsamemario |
| What I usually do, is that I automate the lower eq band on the FLS mixers builtin 3-band eq. It has a a knee control so you can make it more sweepy too if you'd like. |
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| Evolve140 |
| Fancy? FANCY!?!?! SIGN ME UP!!!! |
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| Richard Butler |
| One simple method is to strap a filter plug - in accross the master output and just automate that. |
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| Viking Pillager |
| for every time the track layout works such that in a breakdown build, you can use a highpass on the entire trac without causing some unexpected tinnyness, there are easily fifty tracks that cant have this happen. There are a million and one reasons why, but usually during a complex build arrangement you are gonna have some sounds that you cant have highpassed for dynamic sake.. if you are doing one of those builds to nothing but white noise, then a bar of silence then fine, but otherwise its not gonna sound right. this is the part of music production that is tedious, boring, and time consuming, you need to high automated EVERY track lane that is playing during the time in the track you are trying to high pass, expect the parts that shouldnt be, like the vocal likely. or the snare percussion verb blast, etc etc. hence why the poor mans highpass filter thru the master bus between the mixer and interface doesnt work. |
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| madmuso |
you can try this, i use this sometimes when I need to filter a lot of tracks and leave some untreated.
Create 2 stereo groups/busses. Name the first buss "master filter" and insert your filter of choice on that buss/group. Assign the tracks you want to be effected to this group/buss. Make sure its output is bussed to the main stereo out. The filter you insert on this channel has to have a wet/dry control so you can automate that setting for the filter to do its thing when you want.
Name the 2nd buss/group as "clean or filter bypass". Make sure its output is bussed to the main stereo out. Assign any tracks you want to remain "clean" or untouched by the "master filter" to this buss.
With this setup you just have to be careful of your fx sends setup too cause things can get crazy real quick.
So, if for example, you want to filter the whole song but leave the main vocal and the vocal reverb untouched, make sure the fx send channels that the vocals are going to are strictly for vocals and have nothing else being sent to them.
Hope this helps, |
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| fluxburn |
| If you goto youtube you can see videos on this. Take a track, then put an EQ on it. Then use automation to sweep the filter. You can do that for the single track or the entire mix, for cool effex. |
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| MiikkaLeinonen |
Do it as you like, what you find the best way. I dont usually bus tracks for fx use, only for mixing purposes. Also i dont use send fx, i just throw effects to each invidual tracks and automate one by one. Slower, for sure, but i like to control every track this way. Nowadays mixing in the box is so easy cause if you use ableton/logic build-in effects, you can throw 100x reverb/delay/anything for your track, modern computers can handle it without any problems. When I released my first track back in 2003, i mixed and produced it in Reason lofi-mode :D had to bounce every track to hear how it sounds 44khz lol. And that was released on a vinyl lmao
If it sounds good, you did the right thing. |
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| tehlord |
| I just don't put the same in the same place doing the same thing at the same time. |
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