Plugin for achieving throbbing dance sound?

[JoeBlokey]

Hi, I'm using Logic 8, and am currently curious about how to easily (not manually) achieve an effect I have heard in lots of dance tracks in particular.

It basically sounds like - with every kick drum hit (or 4 times a bar) - all the sounds APART from the kick are throbbing in and out. It dramatically professional-ises even very simple music. Really makes you feel the beat.

A really good example is Satisfaction by Benny Benassi & The Biz, can't think of any others off the top of my head. You can hear what I mean if you search for the radio edit of that track on the iTunes store.

MY QUESTION IS - how is that being achieved? A plugin? Surely not manually doing it through automation?

Any help would be much appreciated

Cheers

Joe

 

[D3v1L80Y]

All they are doing is dropping out the treble frequencies of the track, then raising them again.

I've done it for tracks to get the same effect.

You can get a similar effect by using an auto-wah, flanger or phaser.