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Stage 6 Performance Technique Course 4 of 5

Effects, Used Sparingly

Advanced 10 lessons · 59 min

Effects are the easiest way to make a mix worse. Ellaskins is consistently conservative about them, and the most useful lesson in here is the one about getting an effect out of a mixer that has none - because it teaches what the effect is for before you reach for a dial.

By the end of this course you will be able to

  • Use echo and roll in time with the track rather than over it
  • Set depth and character so an effect sits under the mix
  • Produce an effect with EQ and faders alone
  • Decide when not to use one

Lessons

  1. Getting an effect from a mixer with no effects

    14:24

  2. The roll feature

    4:06

  3. Putting roll to work in a mix

    4:17

  4. Assigning roll from one channel to another

    4:01

  5. A roll trick on an all-in-one player

    5:29

  6. Depth, character and mix - what the dials do

    3:49

  7. Slip mode

    1:45

  8. Break, dump and reverse

    Optional 5:43

  9. Adding effects to a mix that already works

    Optional 11:07

  10. Three effects at once, on a touch strip

    Optional 4:05

    Break, delay and reverb set up and then fired together - a good demonstration of why restraint matters.

The stages are the way through

Below this line is the back catalogue, newest first. Useful for browsing, but it is not a course - the videos are in the order they were filmed, not the order to learn them in. Work the stages instead: each one assumes the one before it.

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