Creative Effect Processing Explained

If you're looking for a way to spice up your productions with new sounds, this creative effect processing video course is for you! Veteran Groove3 instructor Thomas Cochran shows you how to achieve inspiring results by applying some creative techniques with various effects and thinking outside the box. You'll learn how to add lo-fi vibe, enhance your low end, inject vintage flavor with saturation, and more! These creative effect video tutorials are designed for those with a basic familiarity of effect processing.

Enhancing Sounds

• Tilt Shelf EQs for Quick Mixing (12:38) - Learn how to use tilt shelf EQs on a mix to quickly adjust the tone of drums and a sample. This is great for quick mixing of your songs and can be a good way of balancing sounding while producing a track.

• Dynamic & Tonal Control (11:35) - Discover how to use dynamically adaptive tonal control plugins for quickly mixing parts in a production. This video shows how the plugin Sculpt can be used on a drum part to make it sound clearer and punchier.

• Sample Replacement on Drum Loops (14:48) - See how DrumXchanger can be used to enhance acoustic drum recordings. This can be helpful when working with drums that need some extra low end and snap.

• Creative Lo-fi Effects (14:23) - Creatively process your samples using Needlepoint and LO-FI-AF for adding interesting texture to your sounds. This can be great for helping loops fit into a mix.

• Low-end Enhancement (08:44) - Using Bass-Mint, learn how to synthesize low end for instruments and samples. This can be used to make new versions of kick drums or enhance a recording that is lacking in low end sub bass.

Creative Saturation

• Tube Saturation with Opticom XLA-3 (11:18) - This video demonstrates mixing with tube saturation using the ACME Audio Opticom XLA-3 as a Saturator. This can be used to add vintage flavor and thick tube saturation to drums.

• Mixing with Distortion Pt. 1 (07:07) - Learn how to creatively mix using different types of distortion for compression and tonal-shaping effects. This can harmonically enhance your tracks while also balancing sound sounds in your mix.

• Mixing with Distortion Pt. 2 (09:47) - This video wraps up discussion on mixing with distortion and looks at how it can also be used to adjust a synth group.

Creating Space & Stereo Width

• Creating Stereo Width from Mono Signals (11:10) - Thomas shows how to add stereo width to mono sounds in a mix using Brainworx's bx_stereomaker and bx_shreadspread. These plugins allow you to modify your stereo image while still keeping synths mono-compatible.

• Granular Reverbs (14:33) - Discover how to use SILO for textured, granular reverb effects, which can help transform a simple keyboard loop into a complex textured ambience with just one plugin.

• 3D Audio Panning (07:40) - Thomas shows how to use dearVR PRO for advanced three-dimensional panning effects. This lets you have more control over where sounds are placed in the stereo spectrum.