Apogee FX Plugins In-Action

Studio expert Eli Krantzberg presents a detailed series of video tutorials on Apogee FX plugins! This collection of plugins packs a serious production punch, and this course will help you get the most out of it. Eli demonstrates the various EQs and compressors with a variety of musical examples on different sources, so you can hear each in-action while learning how they work. These videos are for new Apogee FX plugin users.

Videos

• Apogee FX Rack (04:29) - See how the FX Rack is set up and used as a container to host up to six instances of the five Apogee FX plugins.

• Equalizers (06:20) - Take a quick tour of all the parameters found in the ModEQ6, EQP-1A, and MEQ-5 FX plugins.

• Compressors (08:37) - Learn about all the features in the ModComp and Opto-3A compressor FX included in the Apogee FX Plugins collection.

• Kick Drum (02:58) - Hear how the EQP-1A, ModComp, and ModEQ6 are used to shape and sculpt the tone and impact of an electronic kick drum part.

• Hats & Snaps (02:23) - A gentle roll off on the hi hats helps keep their focus on the high end. Some compression and Pultec EQ are added to the finger snap reverb return to help emphasize the rhythmic bloom and tail.

• Synth Bass (03:49) - Discover how two Pultec EQs and a ModComp are used to bring out the fundamentals of a synth bass and add some additional mid-range bite so it pokes through in the arrangement.

• Synth Keys (07:54) - Four interlocking synth keyboard parts are each processed with various combinations of the Apogee FX plugins. The FX Rack compare feature is used to illustrate the effect of the 12 db versus 6 db filter slope in the ModEQ6.

• Guitars (06:32) - Learn how guitar bus processing is used to create a focused midrange on all the supporting parts. A second FX Rack is used on the solo parts featuring the ModComp in "Easy" mode to add attack to the transients.

• Female Lead Vocal (05:16) - See how an FX Rack is set up with multiple stages of compression and EQ to tweak a lead female vocal track.

• Mix Bus (04:29) - A final FX Rack is added to the mix bus for some additional EQ and compression tweaks on the full mix.

• Level Matching & Final Play-Through (03:27) - Listen to a final play-through of the mix built up throughout this series. Using level-matched versions of the Apogee FX Rack, all processing is toggled between bypassed and enabled states for a true A/B comparison of the overall blend with and without the Apogee FX plug-ins used on all the various mix elements.