i'm working on a song right now and i want to add some movement along with some analog warmth
to a couple of the tracks within the project and i couldn't really find the right sound that i was
looking for with the vst plugins i was trying and then along comes the free vst the eplex7 filter
and distortion plugin and this looks like it's going to fit the job perfectly so let's check
it out i'm Zanw welcome to Audio Tech TV i've included a link down in the description to this
free vst plug in case you want to grab it for yourself but right now let's head into the daw
and check out the project i'm working on all right so before we get started i just want to say if you
hear any sort of weird noises like snoring in the background it is my dog who's sleeping next to me
as she does during every video that i do now so here we are in the project it's in cakewalk
and this project is still a work in progress so it's not really fully mixed yet or anything like
that i'm still kind of working out how i want it to flow and that sort of thing and a lot of
this is scratch recording in here for now but i really wanted to get this bass sound down before i
really moved on because i wanted to make sure i could get the sound that i heard in my head so
let's listen to it without the eplex7 filter and distortion on there
so that's kind of what i'm working with and i first want to get that bass sound down so i
have it loaded up onto my bass bus right here and here's what the plugin looks like and i do have it
kind of loaded and i was playing around with this just a little bit before i started recording to
make sure that it was worth doing a video for now i'm just going to solo
this so we can hear what the bass sounds like with this on and off so here it is on
so let's just play it in the mix on and off
you can hear it adds just an extra oomph to that base which is what i really wanted but
i also wanted to add some movement and this doesn't do it on its own but we could do some
automation in cakewalk and automate this cut off frequency here so this is the filter control then
you have your distortion control input so you can overdrive that input to get more of the
saturation in there you also have a resonance control and your output so we may have to
automate the cutoff frequency and the output because i think it gets a little
louder as we open it up but let's just mess around with automating this so we can have
some movement in our track which is what i really want to do with this so i'm going to
all right so it's set up for recording right now and i'm just going to do this with the
mouse real quick so we can just get an idea of what this is capable of so let's play this back
so that's what we've got there it's added movement and it's kind of exactly what i was looking for i
wanted it to kind of ramp up as we were getting into that pre-chorus section which i don't have
completed yet but it really wanted the sound to kind of start smothered sounding and then open
up gradually but keep it moving keep it flowing there and i think this does a really good job of
it and it's super easy to use there's not a whole lot of controls just a decent sounding plug-in
so we have our base let's say this is what we want to keep for the base
now i also wanted to try this out maybe on a synth track so we'll
hear what it sounds like on the synth alright so i have this loaded up onto my synth track i'm just
going to bypass it and we'll solo it so you can hear the synth track without anything on there
so it's already got a little bit of movement to it because it is an art but i want to see what
we can do with this and there are some presets in here that we can start with so i think i'm going
to start with this liquid analog distortion preset so let's hear what this sounds like
all right so that doesn't sound too bad on there let's listen to it in the mix
and maybe i'll do some more automation to it we'll see what we can come up with
yeah i actually really like the movement that this brought to the synth and kind of that analog
warmth sound on there so i'm gonna leave it on there now the next thing i wanted to try this on
was maybe the drums so i was thinking of having like a little breakdown part and maybe put this
on the drums for that so let's just listen to the drums without the eplex7 filter on there
that's the drums now we'll add it
all right so i don't mind that we can add
some automation to it if we want so let's just try that out
all right so for this breakdown part i'm thinking of just having the drums with that arp synth
so let's just listen to what this sounds like on the drums with that synth
obviously it needs a little bit of work on the mixing and putting the song together more but this
gives me a good starting point and it's exactly the sound
that i was looking for and hoping to achieve and this is such a simple plug-in to use
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon