hiphopsupamix
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how many main effects are there?
1. reverb
2. delay
3. compression
4. chorus
5. distortion
what else?
1. reverb
2. delay
3. compression
4. chorus
5. distortion
what else?
hiphopsupamix said:how many main effects are there?
1. reverb
2. delay
3. compression
4. chorus
5. distortion
what else?
hiphopsupamix said:how many main effects are there?
RhythmRmixd said:When you say "main", do you mean the most frequently used effects? I would consider all effects equally important, given that their used in the proper situations. And they can easily be abused as well.
mikeh said:I've always considered reverb, delay, chorus and distortion to be the "main effects" (phase and flanging, etc are realy variations of the above).
I then consider EQ, compression, gating, pitch adjustment, etc to be processing (vs. effects)
mikeh said:I then consider EQ, compression, gating, pitch adjustment, etc to be processing (vs. effects)
thajeremy said:so does that mean that applying reverb would not be processing??? What about an Effects Processor??? I think that this statement is absurd. Compression is often used as an effect. Any thing that you do to a dry signal EFFECTS it....this would make it an effect....
Jeremy
Ill buy that.....mikeh said:While possibly a matter of semantics, I've always understood that things like reverb, delay, etc add something that was not there as an effect to the signal - whereas compression, eq, etc. processes the signal while not actually adding something that was not there.
If the end result achieves whatever one wants, then what it is called is not of significant importance. While I did not feel my original statment was "absurb", I certainly can agree that any adjustment to a signal affects it, regardless of the term effect or process.
astoebe said:Actually it AFFECTS it(lets hear it for the grammar nazis)
hiphopsupamix said:"reverb, delay, chorus and distortion" are the main ones.
RhythmRmixd said:Reverb adds space to a sound, by giving it similar characteristics to how it would sound in an "acoustic space", such as a cathedral, or a large room, etc.
Delay repeats a sound, by a number of millisec, or by a note division, depending on what you are trying to accomplish with it. It can "carry away" as well by decreasing the volume on each subsequent repeat.
Chorus gives a unique sound by taking the original sound and stacking the same sound on top of it multiple times (this is adjustable), but with very small timing variations. You sort of have to hear this one for yourself to understand.
Distortion can be used many different ways, I think in the past it was primarily a guitar effect, but can be used on many other instruments, synths as well.
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