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Working with ChromaGlow

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Working with ChromaGlow

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll explore the plugin called ChromaGlow. We'll test it out on a few sources to see how it can add grit or warmth to your tracks. The ChromaGlow plugin is all about distortion and saturation, but what does that mean exactly in musical terms? Well, saturation and distortion are coy ways of talking about taking round natural wave forms of audio and squaring them off. When you do that, the frequency makeup changes and we get these higher harmonics above the fundamental. This results in a pleasing bite, or distortion, or saturation to the sound that can help it cut through a mix. Let's see what this can do to the bass track in this song. So I'll solo the rock legend track, and this is our standard. This is actually coming from the studio bass plugin. And there are a few plugins on here. There's a pedal, a bass amp, a compressor, and basically it sounds like this. (bass guitar strumming) So it's not perfectly clean, but let's see what ChromaGlow can do to…

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