Week 5 Assignment

Hello fellow Courserians :)

It's been an inspiring and tough ''travel'' but here we are, at week 5 assignment.
I'm Mircea Oculeanu from Bucharest, Romania, and I'll try my best to present you with some of the usages of modulated short dellays  effects (flanger, phaser, chorus).
We've already seen that a simple tiny dellay can be a comb filter in its own only because a small- short - dellay of the same signal creates that notches in the signal. Only that these are static. What if we can move them? It's like we could ''motorise'' them, in a predictable way of course. We can do this differently in the two channels - left and right - so that a mono signal - let's say a guitar - becomes a pleasent and wide stereo sound.
Let's hear one of these modulated dellay effects. I chose flanger because my background as a guitar player draws me to flanger and chorus. But I tried to make things different this time, and listen to what flanger and chorus could do to a drum sound.
First of all, I'll toggle in and out both the effects:

It's really nice and interesting what both flanger and chorus can ad to the drums sound. But let's try to understand how to use them. In ableton live, the flanger is clearly laid out - you can see the sections and clearly enough what they do. Let us remind that the flanger is simply put a comb filter in motion.

On the other hand, chorus uses multiple detuned copies of the sound in order to realize a swirling, wide sound. Let's also remember that chorus modifies the pitch differently on the left and right channels, so the sound will get a more pronounced stereo field.
In the final of this short presentation I'll introduce the chorus on drums in order to hear the spaciousness that it gives to a nice sound drum and how it get out of the way in the mix. I used a demo song in Ableton in order to hear a more complete orchestration and how chorus affects the drums in the mix.

Fact is that all these effects have some kind of learning curve but the most you cand with them is exeperiment and listen. From DAW to DAW they may look different but, in most of them will find sections like LFO, Dry/ Wet etc..
It was a tough week for me and I regret I could'nt purchase the new sound card so that I could've recorded my voice too - with some explanation during the short clips.
Thank you for your time and understanding