Lawrence's QuickTip #1: Creating White-Noise Swells for Remix Transitions

The white-noise swell has long been a tool in many remix and dance tunes to add excitement in and around musical transitions. Lawrence says it's easy to come up with the perfect swell. First, open up a new audio track in Pro Tools (or any digital audio workstation), then open a plugin test-tone generator.

"Then find the white noise setting and set a level of about 10 dB," Lawrence explains. "Highlight the length of your song with the cursor and click on 'Process' to stripe white noise from the start of your tune to the end. Now, open a filter plugin—I typically use McDSP's FilterBank F2—and spike up the high-end gain and bring down the frequency to a low midrange level."

Next, says Lawrence, play back the white noise track and slowly move the frequency back up a notch at a time until you get a nice sweeping effect; experiment with the frequency adjustment and "spike" to taste for your own flavor of swell.

"Once you have decided on how you want to sweep the filter, activate the automation on the knobs you want to use and make a pass while moving the sliders around," he continues. "For added flavor, throw a Waves MetaFlanger on the white noise track, or capture the white noise off of a rhythmic hi-hat loop track you have lying around."

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