What parameters do I automate on a synth track to get tha wub wub sound?

[guitarist490]

Okay so I would like to know how to create that wub wub sound that dubstep artists do. I saw a Pro Tools tutorial online showing that to get that sound, I should automate the LPF with my mod wheel. That worked and I got the wub sound, but not all of my synth VST have an LPF automation. So if a synth doesn't have an LPF automation on it, should I just route it to an buss tracks then put a low pass filter plug in on that track, then automate it? What other parameters should you also modulate on a synth to get cool effects? I have no idea how a synth works, I just know how to use one.

 

[Steenamaroo]

It may not be titled LPF, but pretty much any synth should have what you want.
Sometimes it's simply called filter, or cutoff.

Usually you'd have the LFO modulate the filter, and then you'd find some way to modulate the LFO rate.

To directly answer your question though, yes. You could route your synth to a track with an eq on it, then modulate that eq the way you want.

 

[guitarist490]

It may not be titled LPF, but pretty much any synth should have what you want.
Sometimes it's simply called filter, or cutoff.

Usually you'd have the LFO modulate the filter, and then you'd find some way to modulate the LFO rate.

To directly answer your question though, yes. You could route your synth to a track with an eq on it, then modulate that eq the way you want.

Thank you for your answers. I will have to try them to see which works best.