Filter Automation on Lead Bass/Growls...???

[Chew_Bear]

So...everyone knows that you basically just automate a filter to open/close according to the frequency range that you want to express/bypass...for most of the bass sounds and growls that you hear in most EDM/dance music these days.

My question is...

1. Are you supposed to be automating the filter(s) that already comes inside your synth...??? (Serum, Massive etc)

...or...

2. Are you supposed to be automating the filter of a third party plugin...that you insert 'after/behind' the synth...as an effect chain...???

e.g. Soundtoys FilterFreak, Sugar Bytes WOW 2, Cytomic The Drop.

Both methods...???

 

[scrapheaper]

So...everyone knows that you basically just automate a filter to open/close according to the frequency range that you want to express/bypass...for most of the bass sounds and growls that you hear in most EDM/dance music these days.

My question is...

1. Are you supposed to be automating the filter(s) that already comes inside your synth...??? (Serum, Massive etc)

...or...

2. Are you supposed to be automating the filter of a third party plugin...that you insert 'after/behind' the synth...as an effect chain...???

e.g. Soundtoys FilterFreak, Sugar Bytes WOW 2, Cytomic The Drop.

Both methods...???

Either works.
Try both and see which you prefer.
Or have two layers of filter automation for a more complex sound. Use compression/ distorsion inbetween to add in more frequencies, and filtering to take them away
Another thing to note is things will sound different depending where in the effect chain they are- distortion in particular is affected a lot by whether you filter first then distort or distort and then filter.

 

[krushing]

Yep. You're "supposed" to do whatever the hell you want or what sounds good. That's all. How you achieve your sound is up to you, not to some strange set of rules.