Learn How to Revive Your Sounds

Over time, as music production techniques progressed, we were introduced to many creative ways to shape the sound. Some of them are offering genuinely outstanding results in terms of sound morphing and resynthesizing. The ability to alter the original sound source to something completely different is a base idea of these effects. Read the following tutorial and learn how to revive your sounds easily.

Fixing the Harmonics

Musical instruments have a distinctive character defined by harmonics and formats. While formants are static in the spectrum, and you can change them directly with an equalizer, harmonics follow the pitch. For example, we have a vocal track where the singer produces a strong 5th harmonic, which makes the sound "squeaky. "Using the traditional eq, you will not fix this issue since it can dump only a specific frequency range, while the harmonic frequencies change with every note the vocalist sings. Using the Mcharacter plugin, you can specifically leave the 5th harmonics of the voice. You can also dampen the piano with an over-pronounced 7th harmonic or boost the bass sound with a weak fundamental tone. The following tutorial will guide you through a few practical examples of using the MCharacter plugin on different instruments.  

Let's start

So, let's place a new instance of the MCharacter plugin on the guitar track within SoundBridge. So, a creative way to use this effect on the guitar is to simulate the feedback tone by shifting specific harmonics in the "Levels "section. Moreover, the level graph contains the level of harmonics. The plugin first detects the pitch of the sound; let's say 100hz. We can then adjust the gain for each harmonic, which we will achieve by automating the selected harmonics. Let's first hear how it sounds unprocessed and then processed with the Mcharacter plugin and automated harmonics.

 

 

~Guitar - Unprocessed

~Guitar - Processed with Mcharacter  

In the following example, we have a drum loop that could use more subfrequencies in the lower range of the frequency spectrum. Therefore, we will fix that by boosting the first and second harmonic levels using the Mcharacter plugin. So, let's hear the difference.  

~Drum Loop - Unprocessed

~Drum Loop - Processed with Mcharacter  

For the last example, we have an electric piano sequence. We will show you how to completely resynthesize the original sound by entering the "Synthesis "section and making a downward curve. So, let's boost some of the fundamental frequencies to achieve the full effect. Let's hear how it sounds before and after being processed with the Mcharacter plugin.  

   

~El. Piano- Unprocessed

~El. Piano - Processed with Mcharacter