March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
10h 55m
English
Acting crazy for the heck of it tends to amuse only one person: yourself. A mix with special effects flying all over the place is like a bad joke that only makes the joker laugh.
This chapter explores the means that you can use to make many bad sound jokes. But they can also help the music a lot, if you use them sensibly. Effects can attract attention, but they can also work more subtly, like the clues you subconsciously pick up in a Sherlock Holmes book. You can direct the listener’s attention with them, give extra meaning to certain things, and use them to build tension or make suggestions.
Using distortion is like coloring outside the lines, which might be ...