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One of my favourite mix tricks is to use resonant HPFs on kick drum 
and bass, tuned so the resonant peak of the bass filter is sitting in the 
dip of the kick drum filter.  
 

 

 

A few years ago I read a great article about the design of the E-Mu 
SP1200 
(

http://privateprogram.blogspot.com/2012/11/sp-1200-pt-2-memory-a

nd-hagiography.html

) which discussed how that machine has different 

filters on the voices which help place the samples in the spectral field 
so tracks made with that machine already start to sound mixed straight 
out of the machine.  
 
These ideas have come together into the module you’ve now got in 
front of you, we hope that it helps your tracks step up a level and saves 
you time panning, filtering and EQing things in a DAW so you can focus 
on the fun stuff, making sounds with your modular! 
 
SoundStage essential concepts: 
 
Panning 
Panning in SoundStage is simple, if you patch in on the left hand side of 
the module your sound will be panned to the left, similarly patching in 
on the right pans right. However no sounds are hard panned, even if 

Summary of Contents for SoundStage

Page 1: ...s placed in the stereo field according to its position left to right on the panel The horizontal rows indicate how the inputs are filtered into overlapping Low Low mid Mid High mid and High bands The...

Page 2: ...les in the spectral field so tracks made with that machine already start to sound mixed straight out of the machine These ideas have come together into the module you ve now got in front of you we hop...

Page 3: ...e energy to reproduce from your speakers so are panned more centrally Also for people putting their material out on vinyl it helps to have low frequency elements panned centrally to stop the needle be...

Page 4: ...of them also the way a guitar or bass amp shapes the spectrum of the signal being fed into it in a way which lets them sit together in a mix in a natural way Lastly the old mix trick of using EQ duri...

Page 5: ...ve uses of the SoundStage s filters for example rhythmic chopping of the spectrum by controlling filter depth with gates or LFOs or more extreme effects such as patching bass voices to the upper input...

Page 6: ...f Maths to the Level CV input and use the channel 2 pot to set your threshold turning clockwise to increase the threshold You ll have to apply more output level on the SoundStage to make up for the le...

Page 7: ...ith crossing over the left and right signals and feeding back to their opposite sides because SoundStage is 100 analogue there is no latency so stereo feedback of signals is possible and sounds natura...

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