Freezz
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I've seen a tutorial on the internet where a guy puts a frequency shifter on his master to make it sound nice & phat... Any of you guys have experience with the frequency shifter?
i'll try and look for the youtube video again, but it was ableton's built-in frequency shifter that he put on his master!
Try and work on the mix first if you can't get it loud without adding dynamics processors to the master. A lot of the time its simple things that create peaks like hi hats when they have a kick underneath. If I can't get them to play simultaneously without creating a peak I'll either EQ them so that they fit together or apply dynamics processing to the bus they are send to. If this isn't practical I'll create a small fade on the hi hat which usually does the trick and allows me to have a louder drum mix.
I'm pretty sure its not a frequency shifter.
Its like a form of ring modulation.
If it is I dunno why you would put it on a Master channel strip
The origins of the Frequency Shifter go back to the early days of radio technology. Frequency shifting is related to ring modulation (RM): two signals are multiplied together, resulting in two so-called sidebands. One of these is the sum of all frequencies in both signals, the other is the difference. Unlike RM, frequency shifters output a single sideband, shifted down or up by a constant value. That’s why frequency shifters are sometimes called “Single Sideband Filters”.
Frequency shifters are not only only suitable for special effects (e.g. horror-movie voices). Used in moderation, frequency shifting is similar to chorus or phasing, but without needing an LFO. While the pleasant beating of mildly detuned oscillators can become irritatingly fast when you play further up the keyboard, frequency shifting keeps this movement constant. Uhbik-S can synchronize beating to the song tempo.
What a coincidence i just had that problem with a hihat and a kick! thanks for the tip