Frequency Specific Reverb (or any FX)

Posted on Aug 30, 2008 in Content, Effects, Tips n Tricks | 0 comments

Frequency dependent or specific effects have a wide variety of uses and this Live Set demonstrates how to accomplish this in Ableton Live.

Where can you use frequency specific effects? Here are a few simple examples… say you have a vocal track and would like to add a ‘long bright’ reverb to just the sibilant sounds and a ‘dark short’ reverb the the rest of the vocal. Or maybe you have a drum loop which would sound nice with a similar treatment, bright reverb on the hats and snare and dark soft reverb for the kick and toms. The trick is to get the frequency specific effects (in my example reverb) to interact with the none frequency specific effects so they ‘solidify’ more as one effect. In this example set I’ve used a compressor over the “Normal Verb” return with its sidechain input set to receive the “FreqSpec Verb” signal. This “ducks” the “Normal Verb” when the “FreqSpec Verb” is triggered allowing more space for each reverb.

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