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Electronic Sound Design & Effects Chains

Posted: November 26th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: Throw Away Music Series | 40 Comments »

Effects Chain(effect chain on base drum and snare tracks)

Why redo the work if it’s already been done?  That’s often my thought when going for a particular sound.  It’s usually easiest to take the closest preset available and tweak it until it is close enough.  I still whole-heartedly support this mindstate, as the minutiae can easily sidetrack and destroy whatever vision was forming when you sat down to begin work.

The only danger of that mindstate is that you are then reliant on other people’s work (presets), and when it comes time to honing in on the sound you really want, you don’t understand so much what you’re doing.  Alot of times I find myself turning nobs randomly just in hopes that it will end up being the magic control that makes everything perfect.  That rarely happens.

NicksTutorials.com has been a great asset in really getting into understanding what makes each sound.  He sells video tutorials that go in depth through every feature and function of the oscillators and envelopes in Ableton Live (all of which grants an understanding that I’m sure could be used in any application).  From how to achieve specific timbre for a sound, to how to layer the levels of the oscillators to control every moment of the sound, to utilizing complex effect chains to essentially make any sound you want from the digital source.  Utilizing the ability to chain layers of instrument and effect macro controls together, in conjunction with my new digital mixing board, is making it incredibly easy to do things that I previously thought were quite difficult.

This is another entry into the Throw Away Music Series that I threw together to experiment with tonight.  No sound or effect presets are used.  Everything is built from scratch except for the drum samples themselves (which are heavily modified by the ground up effects chain anyways.. and my new love for Redux).

http://www.RobotHorseProductions.com/music/general/ExperimenTATION.mp3

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