Getting a "muffled build-up" sound

[Nekminnit]

Ok first timer here. Ok here goes, I don't see much tutorials on this technique; if you listen to skrillex's scary monsters and nice sprites intro you can hear the "muffled" intro and it builds back up to the normal mix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw&ob=av3e. I know lots of other dubstep artists use this technique as well, heard flux pavillion and bassnector use it too.

This video here vaguely teaches you a way of doing it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44FH_mXBLTA. I'm using ableton live and tried to recreate the effect using that technique, it didn't quite work but i finally got something quite close. I used the EQ-8 and automated it so it starts as a muffled kind of sound and comes back to the default setting on the EQ. I don't know if this is the right way to do it but i find it a real hassle lol. It took me awhile to figure it out and it was very different from that video.

Has any one else got a user-friendly technique to get this effect, i know its very common? And if it would help for ableton live, but it doesn't really matter.

Cheers!

[skimpi]

I didnt watch the video, and dont know what you see as a hassle, and I dont know ableton. But the easiest way to do this is to just get a low pass filter, and then automate the frequency of it to go from like I dunno 100Hz up to 20KHz over the time you want, obviously you can play around with what frequencies you automate from. Don't know if you see this as a hassle, but to me its the simplest thing ever.

[Turnipish_Thoughts]

Probably one of the single most easy things to do in production.

Low pass filter with the cut off automated to rise. I'm a bit worried you find this a hassle, compared to idk, sound design, arrangement, fairly complicated routing, sampler fuckery e.t.c.

I'd get used to things being 'a hassle' lol

[Puncture]

Since you're using Ableton I'll direct you to the Auto Filter in the Audio Effects folder. Then take the advice of the previous posters.

Cheers!

[Nekminnit]

Ok thanks guys. Reason i thought it was a hassle cos its such a simple concept and i spent ages trying to figure out how to do it on my own lol. I'm still learning and am finding some of the easy things in post-production harder than some of the harder things o_O. Was originally in bands and played live maybe thats why

EDIT. Just tried the auto-filter plug-in in ablteon, so much easier than the thing i was doing with the EQ and sounds heaps better. Thanks again!

[Hircine]

Ok thanks guys. Reason i thought it was a hassle cos its such a simple concept and i spent ages trying to figure out how to do it on my own lol. I'm still learning and am finding some of the easy things in post-production harder than some of the harder things o_O. Was originally in bands and played live maybe thats why

EDIT. Just tried the auto-filter plug-in in ablteon, so much easier than the thing i was doing with the EQ and sounds heaps better. Thanks again!

If your bassist never low passed his bass with a filter and boosted the resonance then you never really felt jah's thunderous voice while riddin

[drake89]

btw, if you're in ableton then if you right click something then click 'add automation lane' or something like that, if you've been finding it difficult to record on the fly. you can just draw it in, but pay attention if the values are in dB cause it's not linear.