Special Sound Effects

Especially in today's music production, there are different types of special sound effects, which were used to achieve a good end-result.

Reverb Sound Effect

At first, there is the reverb-effect. It adds the natural ambience to the end-product and makes it sound more "real". In modern effect-processors, you can find different kinds of reverb-settings. For example you can use the spring, plate, chamber or a concert hall setting. Each one trys to copy the real sound as good as possible. This can happen analogue, digital or hybrid. A reverb-effect used the right way, can e.g. let the singer sound better than he really is.

The best Equalizer

Another very important effect is the equalizer (EQ). Many people know the equalizer from their personal audio-equipment (e.g. radio). There you can adjust in the easiest case the amount of bass, middle and treble. In modern music-production the EQ is used to assign each instrument it's own frequency. This is necessary to make sure, that the instruments don't overlap themselves in the mix. If e.g. the guitar-track uses the same frequency like the vocal-track, the final mix will sound very unclean. To avoid this unwanted "effect", you could issue a boost at 200 and 2000Hz to the guitar and a boost at 3000Hz to the vocals. Now, the mix will sound more clear, because now every track has it's own
frequency.

Compressor Effect to equal volume

Speaking of special sound effects, there are effects, which are able to vary the dynamic of each track. The most important one is the compressor effect. It is able to make silent parts of the mix louder than they really are and louder parts more quiet. In nearly every song, there are parts, which were sung less noisy, and parts, which were chanted louder. Without the compressor-tool, the producer had to adjust both parts manually to the same volume. With the compressor-effect handled correctly, it will be done automatically. The compressor-usage reduces the amount of work in a very high level, because nearly every track (guitar, drums a.s.o.) contains parts which vary in their volume.

Music Production – Most used effects

These three effects are the most-used ones in today's music-production. Without them, all famous songs in the world and every music-concert would not sound like everyone expects it today. Of course, there are a lot more special sound effects, music producers are using today (e.g. flanger, chorus, gate), but these 3 effects are the basis.