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Should I use pedals for guitar effects while recording?
I wouldn't record using FX unless I was very sure about the end result I wanted and how it would sit in the mix, just to leave my options open since you can't go back and remove the FX. On the other ...
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A quest to construct a bagpipe ensemble from one sound only
You're actually kind of hitting the laws of chaos theory.
One thousand pipers in a large space is chaotic [my feeling about bagpipes aside ;)
Each bagpipe has four simultaneous notes, three drones and ...
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Looking for a vocal effects pedal to improve vocals
This sounds like a live setup so I'd say the SM58 is an excellent choice of microphone for the purpose.
I'm more concerned about the amplifier. A bit of research tells me this is an acoustic guitar ...
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Can I use a guitar effects pedal for any electric instrument?
Definitely. "Guitar" effects have almost never been used only for guitar. Keyboard and bass players in particular have long used effect pedals.
Effects pedals have also been used live and in studios ...
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What do classical radio stations do to their tracks to normalize audio volume?
Yes, it is simply a compressor - typically you'd use one with a relatively low threshold and ratio.
And some may store metadata for the whole track once it has been compressed/normalised once. I know ...
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What do classical radio stations do to their tracks to normalize audio volume?
It's 'simply a compressor'... however it's a very specialised type of compressor.
There are probably others in this field, but the go-to name for radio compression is Optimod by Orban
Optimod is, to ...
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How to avoid acoustic feedback when having heavy vocal effects during a live performance?
The trouble with using compressors live is that they magically transform themselves from devices which reduce the peaks of the performance into ones that turn up the quiet bits.
Your three compressors ...
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How to create the muffled sound effect like hearing through walls?
I'm a little late to the party, but I've used ProTools' 7-band EQ plugin for replicating sounds coming from inside of a building, and it sounds great. There are some other things I would do to adjust ...
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Is it possible to raise/lower the volume of different voices?
I think your situation is that you have 2+ people on a recording, and they are speaking at different volumes.
I've come across three ways to do this (May 2015):
create 2 audio tracks (one for each ...
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Does anybody know this voice effect?
Auto-Tune
First made popular in the late 90s on Cher's "Believe"
The product was initially designed to mask slight imperfections in a singer's pitching, but it was discovered that by turning ...
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Effects in Adobe Audition to make a voice sound like it's coming from inside a body / in your head
Mess around with EQ. Try lowering the treble a bit to muffle the sound. Normally, you would put a low pass filter on to make it sound a bit muffled. As for talking to him\herself, Increase the bass a ...
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Need to know what I can use to sustain vocals or a vocal note live?
A good looper will do the the trick.
Ableton - Live
is a really good software for live performances, you should definetly take a look at it.
It also includes his own looper.
if Ableton's looper does ...
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Need to know what I can use to sustain vocals or a vocal note live?
The voice, when naturally sustaining a note, will do so with probably a slight vibrato effect and maybe some modulation. So, if you don't get the overall time frame correct it will sound unnatural - ...
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Convincing Telephone Effect
some light phone handling added in along with the correct EQ and a speaker simulator will usually get you what you need. Or a plugin like Speakerphone will let you get to a good place very quickly ...
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How to achieve this western sound on guitar?
This sound can be achieved with a spring reverb and a short delay (< 100ms). Delay before the reverb.
Along with this western sound in general you often also hear tremolo and chorus effects. Here, ...
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Can I use a guitar effects pedal for any electric instrument?
If you have the right inputs (1/4 mono jack) it will work
The sound you'll get mostly depends on the type of pedal that is being used (delay and reverbs sound good on all instruments whereas most ...
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Looking for a vocal effects pedal to improve vocals
I own TC-Helicon's VoiceLive2, which pretty much has all of their smaller boxes wrapped up into a single unit. I'll admit it's a little pricey, and you probably won't use all the features (unless you'...
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Tyre screech recreation
This is a nice one...
http://deauditievedienst.tumblr.com/post/42278000168/foley-trick-how-to-record-the-sound-of-screeching
It's from Arnoud Traa, a Sound Designer/Recordist from Amsterdam.
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How to quickly find a pattern's effects in FL Studio
There does not seem to be a shortcut to jump from a pattern on the playlist to its corresponding mixer channel. I assume this is because it is possible to combine multiple channel rack instruments ...
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How to achieve the strange vocal effect on this track?
This sounds like a pitched & chopped vocal track.
The idea is as follows , first take the vocal track and either pitch it up or speed it up.(If you speed it up it also gets pitched up , but if ...
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Why does Adobe Audition compute the effects that are disabled?
Yes. There is a very good reason why DAW's do this. Specifically, the DAW will always take into account channel latency across all tracks currently active in the DAW whether the inserted plugins are ...
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How to make gunfire like in Cave arcade shmups?
I'm only going to tackle one aspect of this - I'm ignoring the implied 'how do I use a DAW' aspect, as it's well outside the remit of this stack.
The way you set this up could likely depend on the ...
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Proper Order to Apply Multiple Effects - Cheat Sheet
There is no cheat sheet because you can use them in any order depending on exactly what effect you want to create. Literally, anything goes.
Now, that said, if you want a specific output, then you can ...
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Add vintage film sound effect to voiceover audio
The most important thing with this won't be the "plugin" you use it will be the performance and language used in the voiceover performance. That will be the key to ensuring authenticity.
For instance,...
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Logic Pro X panning and effect change in the same track
If the software instrument doesn't support panning individual notes, you have to make another track and pan that.
Alternatively if you just want to pan different parts of the recording, then you can ...
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How to make the most of my FX Loop send/return?
As far as my knowledge go, this would be the "right" setup for you:
IN FRONT OF THE AMP
Guitar --> Wah (you did not mention it, but it needs to be first in line, because wah, along with fuzz, is "...
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Add - Ons for experimental effects [VST, AU]
There are a couple of graphical programming languages that allow you to build completely new DSP effects, without actually needing to write program code.
Max/MSP (together with PureData, its free ...
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Add - Ons for experimental effects [VST, AU]
There's a bunch of cool granular plugs on this site: http://www.michaelnorris.info/software
https://valhalladsp.com/ also has a couple neat freebies
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Looking for a vocal effects pedal to improve vocals
First, please try to avoid doublers, pitch correction, choir and harmonizer effects. These are the scourge of modern music production; they may feel reassuring and initially impressive, but the effect ...
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