Functional Automation: The How To

The ultimate goal of functional automation is to fine tune any work that you have done. Every time you follow recommendations for EQing you will be dealing with we call as a filter. Filter deals with how a certain instrument would sound, the thickness, the depth etc. Now it is easy when there are multiple instruments playing like a guitar and a bass, for example, the sound simply fits together now the problem is when the instrument is playing alone. Sometimes it’s hard to make the sound come out thick in these situations, That’s where automating your filter comes to play
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