James Gray

Mr Lewis

Digital effects and how they are applied in recording

Compression
Compression is all about controlling the peaks and troughs (dynamics) that occur in your mix when, for instance, the uieter !ocal moments are drowned out by the guitarist during recording and"or playback# $n a nutshell, it s uashes the loudest peaks and boosts the uieter troughs, meaning you can up the o!erall track !olume to get that extra punch#

EQ
% uali&ation is the process of ad'usting the balance between fre uency components within an electronic signal# (he most well known use of e uali&ation is in sound recording and reproduction but there are many other applications in electronics and telecommunications# (he circuit or e uipment used to achie!e e uali&ation is called an e uali&er# (hese de!ices strengthen (boost) or weaken (cut) the energy of specific fre uency bands#

Reverb
)e!erb is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is produced# * re!erberation, or re!erb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the walls and air absorb the sound#

Distortion
+istortion effects create ,warm,, ,dirty, and ,fu&&y, sounds by compressing the peaks of an electric musical instrument-s sound wa!e and adding o!ertones# +istortion effects are sometimes called ,gain, effects, as distorted guitar sounds were first achie!ed by o!er.dri!ing tube amplifiers# +istortion has long been integral to the sound of the electric guitar in rock and roll music, and is important to other music genres such as electric blues and 'a&& fusion# +istortion can be produced by effects pedals, rackmounts, pre. amplifiers, power amplifiers, speakersoftwares and more recently, digital amplifier modeling de!ices# +istortion effects are used with electric guitars, electric basses (fu&& bass), electronic keyboards, and in some cases with !ocals#

James Gray

Mr Lewis

Tremolo
$n music, tremolo is a trembling effect# (he first itype of tremolo s a rapid reiteration

0f a single note, particularly used on bowed string instruments and plucked strings such as harp, where it is called bisbigliando ($talian pronunciation1 2bi&biando3) or ,whispering,# 4etween two notes or chords in alternation, an imitation (not to be confused with a trill) of the preceding that is more common onkeyboard instruments# Mallet instruments such as the marimba are capable of either method# * roll on any percussion instrument, whether tuned or untuned#

* second type of tremolo is a !ariation in amplitude

*s produced on organs by tremulants 5sing electronic effects in guitar amplifiers and effects pedals which rapidly turn the !olume of a signal up and down, creating a ,shuddering, effect *n imitation of the same by strings in which pulsations are taken in the same bow direction * !ocal techni ue in!ol!ing a wide or slow !ibrato#