Add a Subtle Filter to the Mix for a New Dimension to the Track

0:00 First of all the demonstration, then the explanation

First of all the demonstration, then the explanation. This is a subtle effect that you can add to your arsenal during your set. The tune I'm using by the way is Can You Feel That, the club mix from Karmic Power Records. So here we go. Very very subtle I have to admit but what's happening is I've got the same track on both decks so the same track is playing at exactly the same time. I'm using the filter, the high pass and the low pass but while I'm using the filter, I'm on the one channel that is playing, I am then bringing up the other volume just very slowly. So what we've got, we've got this subtle underlying filter effect but we've got the same channel coming in, sorry our biggie poem, we've got the same track coming in.

1:48 Just the filter by itself

Now that is a completely different sound to just using the filter. Have a listen. Just the filter by itself. What you've got to remember as well is that to get a good effect isn't about just whitewashing the entire wall, it's about just adding little splats of white, a tiny amount and sometimes that's far better than a full on blown in your face kind of effect, alright? So once again I'm using the same track. Now very quickly some people may say, oh I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what you're talking about. Maybe saying, alright so how do you do that, let's say for example if you're halfway through the mix because you can't start the same track at the same time.

2:38 Vinyl decks, very simple

Well actually with today's technology and even with vinyl turntables you can. Vinyl decks, very simple. Let's say you're playing a track on the right hand side and you bring a track in on the left. You do some basic mix, track on the left is playing. If you've got a copy of the same track that's on the left, you just wait to the exact point where that track is saved. I don't know at the first break and you start the right hand side at the first break Make sure they're the same speed and then you can carry on if you're using a controller Just with two decks not three or four You can do exactly the same. You're playing a right-hand track. You bring in the left-hand track That track is halfway through you just get the same track on the right-hand side as soon as you're at the exact same position

For example, you're four eight sixteen bars in on the left deck You make sure that's or that's queued up at that point So as soon as you get to that point on the left side, you start the right side They're both working in tandem so it can be done and it's far easier with today's technology So again, this is a tiny snippet. This is a little example of what you can do with effects What you have to remember is that? manufacturers You a filter they say there it is. There's the filter It's up to you then to take it to a new level and make it your own filter Just add that small little dash of color. Hope that's been a help Don't forget check out the link to comic power records in the description big shout-out to the man

Mr Lenny Fontana for letting me use his tunes And if you are a producer and you've got some wicked tracks out there and you'd like me to use your tracks in the videos and You have full rights over Those tracks in other words, they are your tracks It's your music and you want a bit of promotion so long as they're good I mean, I'm not saying I'm not after tracks. I don't want tracks that are like crap What I'm saying is they've got to be you know, they've got to be audible people like to hear them I don't really I'm not looking for tracks that have been made After about five minutes and it's just a dum-dum-dum-dum It's gotta have some soul Balls. All right. Thank you very much for watching practice and enjoy nice one

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