Welcome to the videos sends and effects. There is the practical side of engineering producing. And there is the more creative side as well. The last video looked at some of the standard tools that one uses when shaping their sound. Now we're going to have some fun. In this video, we're going to take out the paint brushes, and start to develop our masterpieces with the use of effects.

This is when things get interesting. It is my favorite part of the production process. This is when you get to make those big choices and put your mark on the music effects and how we use them are part of what separates our sound and makes us sound distinct. It really is about narrowing down your choices and committing to a certain creative direction. Because there are so many I have created this chart to make sense of the sonic landscape. That is effects.

I want to get to the heart of it and start setting up preliminary effects. By this I mean effects that you will most likely use in any given session. Most often, you'll be using reverb, delay, parallel compression, sometimes called New York compression, and chorus. So let me give you some examples here. Here's my piano sound. And here's my go to reverb that I usually use.

As you can see here at the bottom I use all kinds of different reverbs, halls, plates, rooms, gated reverbs, etc, etc. Different kinds of delays, quarter note delays Half no triplets. Here are some parallel compression options. And then here's a kind of low five bit crusher option as well. And then here's my chorus. So let's go over the reverb.

Without the verb a piano sounds pretty good. Okay, so now we add the magic of reverb and here's what we get. creates an arm Beyonds you definitely want to have a reverb on your templates just to make sure you can get to it right away. Of course if you want to customize it thereafter, totally acceptable. This is what I like to do with my choruses. I like to get them in the channel strip, via bus, right.

And then I like to create a low pass filter here at 300 hertz so let's hear what it sounds like without it. All right, turn that on. Alright, so you can hear the difference. You can see why I have that setup. It's kind of a go to sound. And I know I can trust it in the heat of the moment when you need these effects to perform the will and if you need to make slight modifications, that's okay we've talked about okay delay logics delays.

Cool and easy to understand. You can also use the trick where you create a high or low pass filter just to give it a different sound. In this case, we'll leave it off. So you can see that on the left side, I've got the delay set to a half note. And on the right side, I've got the delay set to a quarter note. So when I hit this, you're going to hear the left side of the speaker playing a half note and the right side please record listen We'll play the same thing.

And now I'll remove the left side. So you can hear that the right side is in fact, just a quarter note that the left side is a half note. By combining both you're getting nice, magical and fun sound. And this is the beautiful thing with delay. You can play with it you can have, you know, a triplet on the side or a dotted quarter or what have you, I highly recommend you start to play with these sounds. I would personally set up you know, a delay two or three, I'd have a quarter note, I'd have a half note and I would have an eighth triplet.

Here. Let's go over what that sounds like. Eighth triplet, Right. Okay, I recommend you set up your effects in your project template. Here's a list of only 12 effects. Feel free to find your own rhythm, your own workflow, but these 12 seemed to work just fine for me.

By setting up your go to creative mixing plugins in advance, your workflow will become more efficient than ever before. Try setting up these effects on your next session or your project template. Thank you for watching.