
I also use a lot of effects in my stuff for that reason - it's not particularly because I love delays and reverbs or whatever. "It's amazing what you can do with filters I look at it as being a bit like watercolours, when you've got various different blotches and then you use a wash to bring it all together. Here's the excerpt that applies to you:Īmon has a pragmatic and highly effective way of dealing with the discrepancies between the tone and production of the samples. If you add all those (and even more) to the equation and use it tastefully you'll probably end up having something that glues more than before. FX(delays, flangers, chorus, etc.) as a tool that serves as a spice yet helping to glue things in unique manner compression as a tool for glue/groove/tone establish several spaces in the mix - less ambiance/more leaning to the early reflections/small rooms, medium ambiance and the very back of the mix with the large ambiance for instance - that way you are able to put sounds you think are appropriate to the respective spaces you've virtually created



getting envelopes to sound right - if it sounds to attack-y with less sustan/decay it may appear as closer and more focused, so the proper knowledge of ADSR envelopes is something to consider getting certain sounds to share the same ambiance (eg.drums) which involves a proper use of reverbs It might sound like the captain obvious, but choosing samples to have the cohesive tonal balance from the get go is something that's always desirable.
