Hello to you all!
Welcome to this new DrumExperiments episode.
Today I talk about cutoff in house music
and specifically in this tutorial
about the low-pass filter in the equalizer
of the fastest way to use it
and the creative possibilities in relation to the piece of music
The song we are going to work on is a remix I did some time ago
I excluded the vocal track to dedicate ourselves best to the instrumental
Without wasting any more time, let's go straight to the tutorial!
Well, here we are
Let's go to see what we have to talk about...
Here we have the house track I wrote
Obviously volumes are
based on the vocal part presence
Before moving to the tutorial, let's listen to the song...
This tutorial has the purpose of experimenting some things I didn't when I created and thought the song
so
let's go to try a cutoff automation
on the "Intro" pad
this pad...
that is cut enough on high frequencies
But if you want
to create a new effect or you want to leave more space
to the vocals
or to something else
we can decide to cutoff the track
To use the cutoff
you have just to go on the instrument you want
so an oscillator or a synth
both in digital or analog domain
In case of analog ones
obviously using the knob we can adjust the filter
where do you want
instead in digital domain obviously
we have another
approach
linked to the possibility to create automations
that every time you play the song it will remain the same
So let's go now to see how to do this on an audio track
So a very simple way to manage automations in an audio track is this:
to use this nice plugin we have here...
the Waves OneKnob Filter
Thanks to this filter
we can
cut
I mean, move the low-pass filter
as if we did this...
automatize an equalizer is more difficult
than automatize this single plugin
Now if I set the low-pass filter
here, I can manage the cutoff
because cutoff is this, a frequency cut
that in this case is the low-pass filter
Now I play the track
and I try to do these changes...
Obviously it is cut yet on high frequencies
so my cut will be on low frequencies
now it hasn't changed so much
Now it becomes to change
from 1000Hz down
probably around 2000Hz it becomes to change
until I'm unable to hear something
or something
Now
Now I show you that with OneKnob is much simpler
Here we go
I will do the same thing
I will start
with the filter at maximum setting and then I will cut
actually it gives even character
a soft distortion
I can modify resonance
Now distortion decreased a lot
So I can "set" the "character"
that it can give to the entire song
because this song is focused on this pad
In fact it is present throughout all the song
At the beginning is at a lower volume than later
In fact when the song increase dynamics
we have a strong presence of the pad
that is linked in sidechain with a quarter notes kick drum
I created a separate kick drum track
Kick sidechain
that never stops
so on all quarter notes the kick drum plays
And so I linked to it the bass and the "Atmopad"
And so it gives the chords line
of the song, in practice
If I mute it, the song empties a lot
So, it is the only chords line of the song
Now let's go to see in practice
what we can do with this filter
Could be a great thing to automatize the filter not to the beginning
(now that I'm thinking better)
to emphasize this low-pass filter change on the transition between verse and chorus
Let's listen without
Now I move the OneKnob in the other "Atmopad" track
In this way I can begin to try something
Ok, here I hear less difference because of the sidechain
that open and close the audio signal flow
That I can modify later
because now it is exactly how I published
but I can always modify according to the needs
Now we can go to see how to do it
Now let's try to record the automation live
so I will move the knob and Logic will record all the changes
Let's try to record it...
now let's go on "Read"
and I find it written
