Harmonic overtones demystified.everything a musician, producer, and engineer needs to know on overtones, timbre, and harmonic series explained in a nutshell.
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By the end of this article, you will understand:
- Timbre and how it is managed.
- Overtones and the harmonic series.
- Enhancing emotion with overtones.
- Methods to analyze overtones.
- Overtones and Timbral manipulation in music production.
- Overtones and timbral applications in sound synthesis.
he variables that make for the timbral quality of any sound are:
1) The strength of the overtones
2) envelope of the sound
3) Combination and interaction of overtones
4) Even or odd harmonics based on ratio of harmonic interval whether harmonic or inharmonic overtones.
Enhance the emotional impact of your music by manipulating the overtones. When manipulating a sound in the mixing or synthesis stage, ask yourself how am I changing and affecting the overtone range in accordance with the expression and emotion am looking for?
Enhance desired timbres: Boost frequencies of key overtones or the fundamental for clarity and emotional impact. Boosting or attenuating overtones of your sounds in a production in relation to other harmonic content in a song can yield very precise results in terms of emotional delivery and overall feeling.
Blends: Stack sounds and overlap harmonic content to blend instruments for a desired overall effect such as producing a new rich tone. Find balance between which instruments are playing which notes at a specific instance for a precise cohesive overtone expression. You can create a chain in an Ableton Live rack using 2, 3, or more instruments to play one melody or chord progression while assigning which instruments should play which notes for the given melody according to their overtone quality for the best effect. In general, be mindful by how your instruments interact from verse to chorus etc.
TIMBRE IN MIXING
EQ: Each instrument overtones’ structure blends to create a timbral palette. EQ adjusts specific frequency bands, altering overtone prominence. Therefore, manipulating the intensity of overtones by ways of cut, boost, or attenuation changes the overall timbre.
Reverb, Chorus, and Delay effects: can add additional reflections to enhance overtone interactions creating rich and complex tones, thus creating a new timbre.
Distortion and saturation: introduce inharmonic overtones, creating perceived gritty or biting timbres.
Compressors: are used as a dynamic effect and by ways of upward or downward compression from digital compressors, or coloring from old tube or optical analog compressors, the timbral quality may shift according to the change of intensity or introduction of inharmonic overtones.
Create Contrast: Isolate unique overtones by ways of EQ or filtering for a unique overtone profile for each instrument that makes it distinct in the mix and features the balanced choice quality in accordance with the whole qualities. In other words, in contrast to other sounds in the composition. Giving space for each overtone for various sound to be expressed independently can have a powerful and clean impact if done with right tools and methods for precision.
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