[ddots-l] Re: 2 questions
- From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:20:45 -0500
Equalizers.
Omar Binno
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From: Ramy Moustafa
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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: 2 questions
sorry for this question, but quick one,
what is E Q?
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From: Luis Elorza
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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:21 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: 2 questions
it is not easy to come up with the right e.q settings because there are no
rules and every case is different,the important thing is to know what different
possibilities an e.q. gives for changing the way a track sounds.
i am not a teacher but let me try and explain basic operations.
in sonar producer you have an e.q. for every audio track. you have 4
bands and all of them have the same parameters and options. the gain control at
zero or center position will make the band inoperative as if it was turned
off. this control let's you increase or decrease the volume of the frequency
selected in the frequency control . so one thing you can do is to raise the
gain around 8 db's and then move the frequency control to search for the
frequency you want to work with.
when you have found it you can change the gain til you get the right
setting. the q. control is very important because it will determine the width
of the band. higher numbers will narrow the band and lower numbers will widen.
so if you have a q. of zero point one it will operate as a volume control
because the band will contain the whole range. the initial setting of this e.q.
is very much like the ones found in hardware mixers so it may work in most
situations. but you can always tweak it a little bit to fine tune what you need
at the moment.
the band type is also very important. a low shelf setting will work with
all the frequencies under the freq control.
a high shelf all the frequencies above the selected in the freq control. a
peak dip will work with the frequency in the freq control as the center
frequency , a low pass will filter the high frequencies and the high pass will
cut the lows.
the only way to decide what is the tool you need for a specific situation
is to experiment a lot with all these possibilities and learn to recognize the
results in every case.
the same thing can be applied to a compressor, only experimenting a lot the
results will be predictable and both the e.q. and compressor are tools that
with an unproper setting will make recordings sound terrible. this means that
you have to be subtle with working in a project but you can have experimenting
sessions where you can be very adventurous .
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From: neville
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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:51 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: 2 questions
How do you find those frequencies? I have messed around with the 4 bans
in the inspector, but I haven't had any luck with finding frequencies. I have
managed to fit the bass or kick in the mix quite nicely, but I find that I loos
some of the punch.
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From: Stacy Bleeks
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:36 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: 2 questions
Hi Nevil.
What i do to maintain the punchiness of a kick drum or guitar or
whatever the sound might be, is to ue integrity of the original sound though.
What do I know about integrity though? (smile)
se compression. i have fine tuned the compression settings for things
like vocals, kick drum, snares etc. and the right ratio of gating will have
these sounds fit nicely in the mix without having them sound to squished or
distorted. The right compression will make a kick drum sound warmer or
fluffier if you like. Too much though and it sounds like caca.
i remember an interview with Butch Vig (Nirvanna and Garbage producer).
he talked about using compression on the entire mix. He said something about
this technique makes his stuff sound better for peeps listening to his stuff
with a boom box. I think he was half joking but it still makes sense at the
same time.
As for the noisiness. I guess you could E Q some of it out if you
zoned in on the right frequencies. or, you could use something like GoldWave
which has some noise reduction effects that I have used with some success in
the past. Too much noise reduction could compromise th
----- Original Message -----
From: neville
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Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] 2 questions
I have 2 questions for all you experts.
1 How do you find unwanted frequencies and remove them? How do you
get the most out of a kick drum or a bass guitar if it's too boomy sounding? I
wouldn't want to remove all the low frequencies, because then it would sound
flat, but at the same time I wouldn't want to overpower the mix.
2 How would I remove hiss from a loop that I downloaded? I would like
to get the most out of these loops, but some of them are messy sounding.
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