Lesson 5 Effects

For Lesson 5, we explore how effects are used in electronic music. The effects that we will cover are

1. Reverb
2. Delay - including Ping Pong and Granular Delay
3. Phaser
4. Flanger
5. Distortion / Overdrive / Bitcrusher
6. Filter - including High Pass, Low Pass, Automation (Filter Sweeps)
7. Compression - including Side-Chaining
8. Auto-Tune
9. Glitch effects e.g. Beat Repeat

Some good sources of raw recordings (vocal and instrumental) for experimenting are the remix contest sites like:

• http://www.findremix.com/ (specifically http://findremix.com/category/remix-contests/)
• Acidplanet http://www.acidplanet.com/contests/
• CCMixter http://ccmixter.org/

You can download entire multitrack recordings and experiment on them.
Please download one or two songs that you want to work on for Lesson 6: Remixing.

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