Shaping Your Sound with Equalizers, Compressors & Gates

Learn to use your EQ to open up the sound of your recordings and make room for each instrumental texture while discovering various types of EQ curves and devices. This video covers compressors and gates and how to use them to shape the dynamics of any instrument by emphasizing or diminishing the attack, sustain or release of each note, and tells how to set up each of these devices with particular instruments and when to use them. Computer animations and visuals help you understand how these workhorse tools can teach you amazing hi-tech tricks for getting unusual and surprising effects!