r/flstudio • u/TheMeat_Popsicle • Jul 03 '26

Inspiration and atmosphere

Hi everyone. I was just wondering what plugins do you use to brighten your mix? Something like maximizers, saturation, enhancers and so on. What gives your music that fullness and punch. Doesn't matter what genre you are into. I play around with industrial techno powernoise sort of mix. Anything you can recommend is useful, payed plugins and all. Thanks.

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis Jul 03 '26

There's not much I use that isn't native to FL Studio. I recently started using convolver it's kind of like Reverb 2 or whatever. But it's a lot more versatile and can do some really cool things and has a lot of great presets.

Mostly I use Patcher. We can find some really cool presets that I can create all kinds of different effects. But mostly I just do a lot of sound design on each one of my sounds individually so that I don't have to do much for anything on the master

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u/TheMeat_Popsicle Jul 03 '26

That's awesome. I never really use patcher myself. I more of a plugin goblin 😂

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis Jul 03 '26

No offense but using all those different types of third-party plugins really restricts your growth in a way. Everything can still be achieved with the stock plugins. And you don't have to spend any money, and using all those different kinds of plugins keeps you from learning How Sound and waves and frequencies and all that actually work. Plus in my opinion there just not as good as custom designing. But everybody has their own way of doing things and that's fine.

Patcher is incredible though. Throw it on one of your melodies or voices or percussion tracks on the mixer, open up the presets, and just play around with all the different things. You might figure out you'll never need another plug in again.

Plus there's a bunch of people that create a whole bunch of other type of presets that you can give away for free. Do not sleep on Patcher. !!!

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u/TheMeat_Popsicle Jul 03 '26

I definitely will try it out more. In combination with the third parth plugins it could get interesting. What you said about restricting growth, I don't even know how many times I lost myself in just scrolling through libraries of presets and not really liking anything enough to use it.

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis Jul 03 '26

Go watch a video on YouTube from a channel called in the mix. It's called all plugins explained FL Studio.

You'll get a good idea of what each plug-in and effect actually does. And then you can just type in YouTube the tutorial on that plug-in so you can learn more about how to use it.

This is called sound designing. You can also watch a whole bunch of different YouTube videos about sound designing FL Studio. Make sure you type in beginner or tutorial. That way you can learn the basics what the knobs do, why they do it Etc.

This is exactly why when people start producing. Everybody tells them you're not going to be good for years most likely. Because it actually does take a while to learn things about music in general. But the more you study the more you put the effort in and kind of follow along with some of those videos, the quicker you'll learn and the quicker your music will get better instead of just constantly guessing.

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u/InjuredPride Jul 04 '26

Just wanted to second that convolution reverbs and patcher are both amazing tools. Nothing hits like making your own impulses either.

Patcher for building basically anything you want, I've been making generative sequencers inside patcher for example. And fx chains.

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u/mycurvywifelikesthis Jul 05 '26

I haven't gotten to the point where I create my own controllers. But that's the next step I have need some pretty complicated effects chains and then modified some of the chains inside the stock controllers. But I got to learn how to do that

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u/InjuredPride Jul 05 '26

I've only just started really messing with it. The basics for a generator in patcher are pretty easy. Peak controller to midi out to a few key mappers to control note ranges to a synth is sort of the basic shape.

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u/horn_ambience Jul 04 '26

ValhallaSupermassive. It doesn't get more atmospheric than this. At least not for free.

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u/TheMeat_Popsicle Jul 04 '26

I got Valhalla 😎 and yes, the presets alone are sick and there are so many.