New lesson-Effects in FL Studio

How to make our music sound better?When using a sound it can very often sound "not good" on its own.This is where we use the effects.We use those effects for two purposes -mixing and mastering.
->mixing is a process which aims to enrich the sound,to make it sound better by adding something to it .We do it by adding effects such as reeverb(creating an artificial space in order,for example,to make the audio sound like in a room,hall etc.),as well as other effects referring to the sound frequencies.
->mastering is the finalizing of the project.This means that you make final works with the help of graphic frequency equalizers ,compressors and limiters so that you make the sound clearer and gain more volume.



In this picture you can see the mixer in FL Studio which is divided into parts.
->Master- when you put an effect here it will apply to the whole song.
->Insert() -> here the effect would apply only to the instrument that is assigned to this channel in the mixer.You can assign the instruments by changing the number in the upper-right corner of the window of this instrument.As you can see the kick in this picture is assigner to channel 1.
You can assign as many instruments to a channel as you want.

How to choose an effect?
As you can see in the right-hand side of the mixer there are 8 black spaces in a column with an arrow to each of them.Just click this arrow,then press select and choose from the list of effects

Which effects to use?
As beginners you are not supposed to know what each effect does so i will tell you about the most important of them

-Fruity Reeverb -This effect creates artificial space-this is used if you want the instrument to sound as if in a room,hall,stadium,cave or some other place.
-Fruity Delay-it adds echo to the sound
-Fruity Chorus-creates several copies of a sound and makes them differ from the original(changes the frequency,the pitch of tone etc.).
-Fruity Flanger-it also creates copies of the sound and then distorts them.Similar to it is Fruity Phaser,but it acts differently
-Fruity Compressor - compressing of the sound is essential in the final works and when working with vocals and drum kits.It is also useful when mastering the track
-Parametric Equalizer -this is pretty important.When mixing you need to cut the useless frequencies of each instrument in order to prevent your song to become a bunch of different sounds.For example,when using a bass you need to cut its high frequencies.
-Fruity stereo enhancer-enriches the stereo sounding of the sounds.Very useful for string instruments.Helps them sound more realistic.