Mastering Audio Effects and Creative Automation in Ableton Live
Membership plan: Going Deeper | Topics: Music Production
Course overview
In this comprehensive tutorial, Ableton Certified Trainer Anna guides you through the process of applying effects processing and automation in Ableton Live. Using a step-by-step approach, you'll learn how to enhance your tracks with reverb, saturation, EQ, compression, and automation to create a polished and professional sound. This tutorial builds on the previous three videos, culminating in a complete mix that showcases how to use these techniques effectively.
What you'll learn
- Enhance your drum, bass, and vocal tracks with appropriate reverb and saturation to add depth, space, and presence.
- Shape your sound by effectively using EQ to balance frequencies and compression to control dynamic range.
- Efficiently manage your CPU usage by applying reverb and other effects using return tracks and parallel processing techniques.
- Use automation to dynamically change effects and parameters over time, adding movement and interest to your tracks.
- Group and save your effect chains as presets for future projects, making your workflow more efficient.
Who is this course for?
- Intermediate-level producers and musicians familiar with Ableton Live.
- Artists looking to enhance their tracks with advanced effects processing.
- Producers aiming to improve their automation techniques for dynamic mixes.
- Those interested in creating professional-quality music with a focus on electronic or hip-hop genres.
Course content
- 1. Intro
- 2. Processing the Drums
- 3. Processing the Vocals
- 4. Processing the Harmonies
- 5. Adding Reverb, Applying Parallel-processing
- 6. Applying Automation
- 7. Outro
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of Ableton Live's interface and functions.
- Completion of the previous three videos in this series (recommended but not mandatory).
- Access to Ableton Live software.
- A track or project with drum, bass, and vocal elements to apply the techniques.
Meet your instructor
Anna Lakatos (aka ANNA DISCLAIM) is a London based electronic musician, singer, trained audio engineer and educator.Anna has been working as a recording, mix engineer and music producer since 2014, using various DAWs and analogue outboard gear. As an educator she works as an Ableton Certified Trainer and Lecturer at Point Blank Music School. Anna is also Avid Certified for Pro Tools, and one of the UK Native Instruments Product Specialists. These roles took her to festivals like Dimensions and Outlook in Croatia, Sonar in Barcelona, Amsterdam Dance Event and gave her the opportunity to provide training and tech support to numerous artists from Universal Music, Ministry of Sound (Sony Music), Rinse FM, BBC Radio1 and more. She has also been featured in Future Music Magazine, Music Tech Magazine, run workshops for Adam Audio, Saffron Records, Ableton and Native Instruments.
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