What Effects Work Well with What Tracks?

All right so in this video what I'm going to do is run through the underground releases from CDpool for March 2020 and I'm going to go through a bunch of the tunes that are in alphabetical order and use a different effect on each one. Now the underground releases are your twisty bendy techy sometimes drum and bass experimental minimal tracks that you'd sort of hear like if you're off your head in a raid party somewhere so don't expect handbag euphoric hands in the air sort of stuff that you'd hear on daytime radio no that's not going to happen you know the the people who make this style of music are the people who probably would stay clear of daytime radio like the plague literally okay this is melodies

The original mix so here i'm going to use just a basic filter but normally what you do is you'd engage the filter then turn the dial i'm going to do it a different way i'm going to turn the dial and then i'm going to engage the filter three o'clock let's put it at two we turn to 12. let's go to nine

Way down seven and okay we're still at the break let's get this forward a little bit

Okay so the next one on the list is Dean Chappell track entitled gibberish

This one's got a nice chicago vibe to it reminiscent of relief records if you if you don't know anything about relief records go check them out they've been going oh like absolutely bloody years amazing absolutely amazing label this one i'm going to use some sweep this might work quite well with this because what the sweep tends to do it will get rid of a lot of the the middle parts of the track and leave you just with like the high feel and the low feel so it's almost like cuts up the beat have a listen

I love that sound it's almost like it's compressing the middle part of the tracks so you could like filter that's a sorry

Using the sweep it completely gets rid of that i mean it's it's as though it's taking it completely away out of the mix let's rewind have a listen again

Okay so the next one is dr mika a track entitled blackout

You know what we gotta do here oh yeah dub echo check it out all right so what i'm getting here what's happening is with the dub echo when i move the color effect style anti-clockwise i'm getting an effect over no i'm getting an effect in the track now hopefully this will make sense so the effect is actually affecting the track when i turn the dub echo to the right uh what's happening clockwise is i'm just getting an effect over the track so it's not like it's changing the track have a listen

That's quite good okay so next one fed conti and this is uh maxima ala um alata i think say you pronounce it let's get a space volume all the way down okay so what i was doing there is um i had an effect over the track so it's not like it's changing the track so i'm just going to have a look at the effect over the track so i had the color dial all the way set to the max on low um i brought in the space effect brought the volume down we had a lot of echo going on there but what i wanted to do as well is make sure that when i brought the track back in didn't have that effect so press space again brought the volume up away we go happy days let's do it one more time just spin it forward a little bit to about something there

So when you disengage the effect it doesn't matter where the dial is you're not going to get the effect anymore okay so one that some people like some people dislike is noise also known as white noise parameter of the effect as well so because the noise can be a little bit harsh it can be a bit too overpowering so using the parameter dial you can maybe set the level of the effect over the track this one um fractal architect can you believe it all right so jeannie farris here who has had some tracks on relief records this should be interesting oh liking it already nice sort of skip feel to this uplifting straight away as soon as you play this you're like oh it makes you feel good i like it base go biscuits remix turn the color effect

Style first and then engage that's a nice sound listen you can especially with the drum roll that would sound good you know it's almost got it's almost got it is a little bit like a drum roll that's got a lot of sort of vibration and energy around i'm going to choose a random track now

Let's go love generator okay uh madison avenue don't call me baby

Sweep into dub echo space i've got the dial set to about half a noise really slow kind of move to the low position now let's use the parameter to get rid of it

I say i think this proves here sometimes slowly moving in effect is far better than moving it

Fast and off really so that's been held right so a bunch of tunes here underground march 2020 20

Check out the link in the description to cd4 and if you are interested in tracks like this um you're new to cd fall you can get two months 50 of downloads now terms and conditions quite soft for everything but go check them out practice and enjoy thank you

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