How to apply effects to only a portion of a track?

I recorded drums through a presonus firepod audio interface and my 2,16Ghz MacBook Pro on 4 different tracks.
There are some parts on the tracks where i'd like to apply some effects (like am radio kind of effects) but i can't seem to apply it on only the selected part. It seems to apply to the whole track...
Anyone wants to tell me how to do that?

To further expand on John's advice...
One way to do this with automation, is to send the outputs of your drum tracks to an Aux. Then set that Aux track as an input to another Aux track.
Put the radio effect plug-in on that second aux track, and mute it.
Using automation, you leave the first Aux track unmuted for the majority of the song, but when that section comes up, you unmute the second aux track, while you mute the first aux track. After the section passes, revert the mute status back to the way it was originally.
Using automation, you can fine tune this so it becomes seamless...
Just one of many ways to skin this proverbial cat...

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I have yet to see even ONE system where that information is actually useful for any real purpose. Many systems have application/schema users and those users can modify the data. Also, any DBA can modify the data and many of them can connect as the schema owner to do that.
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It is certainly appropriate to be concerned about the security and auditability of your important data. But adding columns and triggers such as those proposed is NOT the proper solution to achieve that security.
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3. perform testing that shows the impact of that requirement on the production system
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Thanks for your response Steve, I didn't explain things thoroughly enough which is why you thought I hadn't tried the automation twirl down that shows the automation lanes, yes I do know about that and did try it, let me try to explain properly:
I did try it with the automation lanes before posting here and it worked with the volume and pan etc... BUT, with the delay they only let you automate one of the delay parameters at a time, SO, for instance, I can ONLY automate one of the following parameters at a time relating to delay: "wet" or "dry" or "delay" or "feedback" or "trash" or "spread" or "distortion mode"
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"sigh"
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>> The "schedtable" class below is applied to a nested
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| a | b | c | d | e |
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| a |   | c |   | e |
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Key frame #2 = end of clip | e |
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Zoom value of key frame #2 = 400%
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End of clip       | a |:     132%
Beginning of clip | b |: (100%)
End of clip       | b |: (100%)
Beginning of clip | c |:     174%
End of clip       | c |:     230%
Beginning of clip | d |: (100%)
End of clip       | d |: (100%)
Beginning of clip | e |:     303%
End of clip       | e |:     400%
(Unfortunately, this forum doesn't allow me to apply any kind of formatting to the example above. So I can't apply a monospace font or colouring )
When a group gets ungrouped (Menu Clip > Ungroup), effects that had been applied to the group will be assigned to each individual clip of the group. For effect parameters that had key frames/animation activated, key frames will be created at the beginning and end of each of the clips. The previously calculated values will now be inserted at each automatically created key frame to mimic the grouped effect behaviour. This operation then would finalize the Ungroup operation involving clip group effects.
Regards,
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