Audiotent Tip #425 // Kick Saturation If your kick feels too soft and lacking drive, try processing it with saturation or distortion. Added harmonics will push the sound forward, making it more def...
Audiotent Tip 421 - 3 Ways to Process Hi-Hats 808 and 909 are the classic choice for sourcing hi-hats in techno and tech-house genres. Purists will use them raw, however, there is so much to be gai...
Audiotent Tip 398. Stomp Box Percussion.There are multiple ways to process percussion and transform it into something new and unique.One trick is to send your electronic or acoustic percussion via ...
Audiotent Tip 393. Modulating Distortion.Multiple tone variations can be achieved by assigning modulation to your distortion parameters.For example, on a drum group, you could apply a BPM synced LF...
Audiotent Tip 346. Lo-fi Vocals.When working on a clean and polished production, try making your vocals lo-fi for a contrast. There are multiple ways to achieve this effect.First, equalise your sou...
Saturation and Distortion Questions
Audiotent Tip 337. Saturation and Distortion Questions.Saturation or distortion is a very common term used in music production. However, it can often be confusing when to apply this processing.We h...
Audiotent Tip 325. Group to Audio Stem.One way to make a group of instruments sound more cohesive is to send them to the same buss and apply processing (e.g. compression or saturation).However, the...
How to add grit to your sounds
#AudiotentTip 291. Adding grit to your sounds.Audio recording equipment and audio interfaces are getting more affordable every year. Never before has it been this simple to capture clean audio from...
#AudiotentTip 271. Reverb into Distortion.The most common placement for your reverb plugin is at the end of the processing chain. Adding reverb at the start of the chain and feeding it into distort...
How to program and process drum fills
#AudiotentTip 241. Drum Fill Processing.When designing drum and fx fills it can sometimes be tricky to get them to sound as one complete unit. Once you're happy with your sounds and pattern send t...