Frequency Spectrum

When two sounds compete for the same frequencies, a phenomenon called Masking happens. This means that you will only hear the loudest element at those frequencies.

To avoid too much masking, you can:

• Choose complementary sounds (using sounds that naturally overlap very little)

• Transpose sounds to a lower or higher pitch on the keyboard to get out of the way of the other elements.

• Open or close filters to take or make space.

• Use Equalizers to cut out space in elements to make space for other elements.

  • Cleaning the lows, by high passing elements to remove unwanted low rumbles.

    

  • Tilting the sounds, by using low shelves and high shelves to darken or brighten a sound.

    

  • Puzzling the sound, by we can cut the main frequencies of one element in another element, making space for the first element.

    

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• Use Saturation to create more harmonics of sounds, making them brighter or darker.

  • Creating harmonics on a sine wave.

    

  • Distorting sounds brutally with extreme saturation, changing the "attitude" of the sound for a more aggressive timbre.

    

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