‘Pitches love Shifts’ – Pitch Shifting
What are? In our digital age, pitch shifting has become a simple process that allows us to manipulate the pitch of an audio waveform higher or lower. This allows for countless applications, a notable example is how Matt Stone and Trey Parker create the voices for their animated show South Park – they record the […]
Straightforward Tutorial #3 – Parallel Compression in Pro Tools
The New York Compression Trick, Upward Compression and Parallel Compression; different names for the same thing. “It seems like every mixer who’s ever mixed in New York City comes away with this maneuver. Even if you don’t mix in NYC, after you try it, you just might find yourself using this trick all the time […]
Straightforward Tutorial #2 – Side Chain Gating in Pro Tools
Side chain gating has many useful applications in mixing and can be relatively simple to create. One of the most notable uses is by Trevor Horn where he side chained the kick drum to a sampled bass guitar note so that every time the kick was hit, it triggered a bass note to give the […]
Reverse Reverb
What are? Reverse reverb is a relatively simple technique that causes reverb to lead into a sound rather than it trailing off after it. It can be achieved by applying reverb to the duplicate of a reversed audio track, recording that reverb to a new track and reversing it again. When this track is synced back […]
Straightforward Tutorial #1.337 – Reverse Reverb in Pro Tools [Cymbals]
As I have done a tutorial for Logic, is it only fair that I do the same for Pro Tools as there are a few differences in achieving reverse reverb: [For this tutorial I have used three single cymbal hits from the workspace browser (⌥ ; )] I. Merge audio regions together with Shuffle so that […]
Straightforward Tutorial #1 – Reverse Reverb in Logic Pro [Vocals]
Here is a step-by-step process on how to achieve reverse reverb on a vocal track in Logic Pro 9: I. Record a vocal line (The example used was my rather boring spoken voice recorded about 8″ from a Samson C01 condenser) II. Bounce down this version and rename it so that when you reverse the […]
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