TL;DR

Envelope followers let you turn any signal’s volume into a control source, so you can do things like autowah, transient shaping, sidechain-style pumping without a kick, dynamic send levels, and even map that envelope to other tracks or effect parameters. Andrew Huang walks through all these tricks using his Transit 2 plugin (currently on sale), shows how to modulate both the follower and the effects it drives, and wraps up with why they’re a must-have for creative mixing.

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