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Automating EQ filters

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Automating EQ filters

- [Voiceover] A popular effect in current pop production is really quite simple. Automating plugin EQ as a low pass or high cut and using it as a filter, can create dramatic shifts in a mix and open up room for other instruments. So, I'm gonna show you on a track here, I got a string track, ("Who Knows What Wonders" by Sophe Lux and the Mystic) And I'm gonna run some plugin automation on there. So first thing I'll do is just put a simple one band EQ on there. I'll set it up so that we can automate the frequency. So you set that up, and then put the track in touch mode. I'm just gonna do a little filter here. I'm just gonna grab that little button there and just ride this like a cutoff filter on a synthesizer. Let's run this down and do a little, I love doing this by hand. You can draw it out and I'll show you some visual versions of this later, but playing it like an instrument is so fun. ("Who Knows What Wonders" by Sophe Lux and the Mystic) And so let's go back, and read that, and…

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