Audio Tricks for Mixing

How to use HPF, LPF, and BPF.

The classic lo-fi effect!

Create movement in your filters by automating plugins and using LFO's.

A tried and true technique for bigger drum sounds.

Create a cleaner distortion sound that keeps the clarity in tact.

Use dynamics to create a rhythmic sound.

Choose your delay times carefully, and you can make one track sound like a large crowd.

Analog delays (and analog simulations) can create psychedelic sounds that you cannot get from a regular digital delay.

How to automate delay on and off in order to echo only specific parts.

Commonly referred to as "chopped and screwed," this effect is used quite a lot on vocals.

A quick and easy way to get the robot sound that Auto-Tune is famous for.

How to create multiple harmonies from a single melody.

Ethereal, spooky, and great for transitioning sections of a song, the reversed reverb is a classic effect!

Keep your reverb musical by setting it to musical timings.

Add a rhythmic aspect to your reverb with a carefully set up noise gate.

Using an envelope filter after the reverb can create out of this world sounds!

Changing the pitch of the reverb can instantly change the mood of a song.

Elastic audio technology is a very powerful sound design tool.  This is part 1 of a 2 part lecture.

Elastic audio technology is a very powerful sound design tool.  This is part 2 of a 2 part lecture.

Add some glitch, or stutters to your music with some simple copy and paste editing.

Try adding effects directly to the source files.

Pitch, phase shifting, EQ, delay, and special plugins can all be used to create a wider stereo image.  This is part 1 of a 2 part lecture.

Pitch, phase shifting, EQ, delay, and special plugins can all be used to create a wider stereo image.  This is part 2 of a 2 part lecture.

Sometimes you might want a plugin that can do all of the chopping and screwing for you.

Many pitch-correction plugins can be controlled via MIDI.  In this video we will take a look at Auto-Tune.

Create a robot by playing notes on a MIDI keyboard, or importing a MIDI file, to control a vocoder.