Hey guys,
A question about boosting the fundamental tone of the sub-bass: in this case James knows it’s E2 so he can boost it, but what can you do if the sub bass note might change over the course of the track? When you eq according to E2 you cannot change the notes, right?
In such a scenario then you could automate the EQ frequency to follow the fundamental note change or even use a second EQ instance to avoid crossover frequency boost and again use automation to enable/disable the desired EQ over time.
Generally you want your bass to be pretty stable in terms of what freqs are being boosted so its ok to boost a single frequency to give an overall sense of more bass and let the upper mids or higher octave denote the pitch.
you can add on a multiband compressor with a few bands covering the bass area or specific notes. this can help even things out after boosting with EQ.
Aye, very good point 
makes much more sense than the EQ trick 
That’s great thanks a lot Stephane and Phil
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Hello,
I have a question please, I noticed that with some of the presets James doesn’t turn off the internal reverb (on Sylenth1 for example), is this done deliberately? In those cases where the reverb isn’t switched off it actually has two reverbs, one the internal and the other is the reverb on the bus.
How in general would you recommend to use (or not use) the internal reverb/delay effects on vsts?
Thanks in advance
Hey there @omer-f
Mainly it comes down to 2 things :
If you feel like a synth preset with an internal reverb sounds great in your Mix, then why not using it, but if you’re after a more solid, mono"ish" sound or if you feel like the effect is too much pronounced or if you just don’t like how the reverb sounds then you might want to disable it and use your own reverb.
When it comes to workflow & what you’re trying to do with reverb, it might be more easy to automate an external reverb plugin than the internal synth one. That will likely depends on the plugin allowing internal effects automation or not, some don’t or aren’t that easy to map/automate.
If you’re aiming at drastic reverb effects like for example a gradually washed sound for pads, then it’s more easy to use an external reverb set to full on a return channel and automate your sends than an internal synth reverb.
But mainly it all comes down to how it sounds in the Mix in the end, do you feel that the internal reverb/effect is doing good to the sound or not.
I see thanks a lot for your detailed answer!
The tips in this are brilliant - the compression and EQ tips really help with the production.
Great Course 
good work
Great tutorial. Very in depth and great explanation as to why you were doing things. Learned alot, Thanks
Learning so much and I have only just started tutorial 9
I’m really loving this course. A quick question @James_Dymond are you using Slicex with the percussion loops ?
Absolutely brilliant course, everything is really well explained. So helpful. Thank you James!
Great Course, learnt a lot from it
2 months into my music production learning and I followed this course to a T in Ableton. Thank you James, your teaching style is very clear and easy to follow
Thanks you James…most very important lessons!!!