Adding distortion to whole drum bus

Monowan · Post by **Monowan** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:44 pm

Hello everyone,

I want to add multiband distortion to my drum bus in FL studio but when I do so, I lose the EQ modifications I made on individual instruments. Say I get rid of a nasty low hum on my hihat, when I send it to the drum bus with ohmicide on it it comes right back and gets distorted as well. Pulling up an eq on the drum bus shows that the full frequency spectrum is indeed covered. I'm sure this is a result of me not understanding how sends actually work ? thanks in advance

fragments · Post by **fragments** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:31 pm

Distortion adds harmonics, and an EQ isn't completely subtracting the nasty low hum and when you add distortion it amplifies what's left. Just use an EQ or filter after the distortion. Fixed. It has nothing to do with sends, really.

The other possibility is that the sends are sending the signal before channel processing. You might check you DAWs manual. Only an analog mixer many aux sends have options for "pre" and "post". I believe that "pre" sends the signal before channel processing and "post" sends it after channel processing. Make sense?

Crimsonghost · Post by **Crimsonghost** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 4:26 pm

You can also try a parallel send. Put your distortion on a separate fx channel with the original audio going to the main and fx. Just mixing in a bit of the distorted channel so still get that bite without blowing up the whole track.

wub · Post by **wub** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:24 am

Crimsonghost wrote:You can also try a parallel send. Put your distortion on a separate fx channel with the original audio going to the main and fx. Just mixing in a bit of the distorted channel so still get that bite without blowing up the whole track.

I second this.

Add9 · Post by **Add9** » Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:55 am

wub wrote:
Crimsonghost wrote:You can also try a parallel send. Put your distortion on a separate fx channel with the original audio going to the main and fx. Just mixing in a bit of the distorted channel so still get that bite without blowing up the whole track.

I second this.

Third. I have realized that when it comes to any kind of processing, parallel almost always sounds better than just processing the whole thing.

neonmansion · Post by **neonmansion** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:04 am

doesn't ohmicide have a dry/wet knob?? isn't that the same thing as parallel sends.

fragments · Post by **fragments** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 2:34 am

neonmansion wrote:doesn't ohmicide have a dry/wet knob?? isn't that the same thing as parallel sends.

Yea. Basically. Except you have a lot more control over both the wet and the dry signal. You could EQ or filter them separately, for example.

Gewze · Post by **Gewze** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:53 pm

fragments wrote:
neonmansion wrote:doesn't ohmicide have a dry/wet knob?? isn't that the same thing as parallel sends.
Yea. Basically. Except you have a lot more control over both the wet and the dry signal. You could EQ or filter them separately, for example.

need that on a plugin

skimpi · Post by **skimpi** » Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:52 pm

http://www.attackmagazine.com/technique ... tortion/3/

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