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dalvare1 wrote:

Sparxy wrote:

dalvare1 wrote:

Sparxy wrote:
Haha! I have Flux bittersweet. It's dead simple to use. Transient shaper does exactly that - it will bring out the transient "hit" of sometihng, making it stronger, sharper, more "hitty". OR hide the transient, making it duller and less obvious. Flux bittersweet has a dial that goes either way so its really easy to see and hear whats going on. Instead of effecting the dynamic range of a sound like a compressor it tends to only effect the initial "hit" of a sound. It works on stuff that his "hitty" if that makes sense, like hats, drums, piano
Using it on the kick tends to make it more "hitty" and impactful. Its emphasising the initial smack of the kick. makes it sound punchier, seems to add top end hit whilst trimming off some of the fat, without effecting the overall character of the kick

Easiest way to learn is to get a transient shaper, put it on something and experiement my initial comment still stands, becuase if you'd have done what I said and listened you would understand what its doing immediately

is that more helpful?

yea thx brah

any reccomendations for one to get started with? Doesnt ableton have a stock one? or a demo/free VST?

As you may have guessed, i havent tried doing this before so kinda starting at square 0



while you are here, how do you feel about high passing your sub as mentioned above? I have always been low passing. Feel like im missing something

Jacob15728 wrote:EQing is only for vague, subtle tweaks like boost the highs a bit, cut the mids a bit, etc. if you want to remove precise frequencies, use sidechain multiband compression

Sparxy wrote:I use Ableton as well. I don't think it has a transient shaper built in. Flux bittersweet is freeware though http://www.fluxhome.com/products/freewares/bittersweet2
Basically with the sub you wanna cut anything above 80 to 90hz, depending on what your melody is with it and where your kick is sitting. It's not going to dramatically change your sound but what you're doing is cutting out harmonics that aren't needed to save some headroom and stop the sub from interfering with any of the other elements in your track.

**edit** ive just realised what youre referring to. I said high pass initially didn't I? I meant lowpass lol. although there's no harm in highpassing anything under 20hz, will save you some headroom since everything under 20hz is inaudible to the human ear anyway.