EQ'ing questions

[TechnoNRGKid]

Some of this EQing stuff i'm tryin to understand better.
Anyone know of any EQing articles , or tutorials on the net?

I was learning how to adjust the gain levels when your peak levels are reaching the red and yellow areas and using the volume faders for volume only.
Can you also use the Gain on the EQs for that?
Any kind of Eqing help would be cool. I dont Know much at all of EQ'ing.

[Agility]

http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/articles6.htm :)

[rounser]

The only thing I've found which seems to be approaching a magic bullet for EQ is Adobe Audition in "spectral display" mode...download the demo, then open some techno file in it.

There's an icon which lets you switch to the spectral display. You can then "look around" the EQ of your waveform (blotches of colour along a timeline), and see where the bass and kick are doing their thing, how much space the snare takes up, and so on. Things that are clashing will look a bit inverted where they overlap - that'd be phase cancellation or something similar, I think.

If you need to do actual EQ, you can either pinpoint the hz visually which you'll need to boost or cut, and so set your realtime EQ for those freqs (as opposed to flailing wildly around at random with freq and Q on a parametric, which is the usual approach I think), or if you can afford to do it offline, simply select that bit with the marquee tool and choose the "Amplify/Fade" effect, then give it a fair bit of db cut or boost.

That's in my limited knowledge, though; perhaps there are better options about - if you know of them, please share. :crackup:

[loopdon]

get good samples (sampling cds etc.) to start with. that makes life easier. consider, if each and every sound in use actually is needed to bring the message over?! there's loads more to say, but you might want to have a look at this plugin:


Elevayta Space Boy

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What do you do when you have two audio sources, with similar spectral content, and you would like to mix them in a balanced way so that each of the individual parts can be heard?

Normally you may spend hours fiddling with the EQ of each source to find the dominant spectral components. Having done this you then need to tweak each EQ until a suitable balance is reached. All the time being sure that a constant volume is achieved.

Using the similar, innovative, communicating plug-in technology used in 'Clone Boy', 'Space Boy' makes it possible to perform this, normally complex, EQ process in a matter of minutes using just a few sliders.

'Space Boy', as the name suggests, provides the means to analyze, in real-time, the spectrum of one audio source and make a 'space' in the spectrum of another (target) audio source. Not only this, but the ever changing relationship between the different EQs of each source is automatically accommodated in real-time. This means that EQ adjustments are made only when needed.

Features:

Real-time FFT based spectral convolution.
Unique plug-in pair (and more) communication.
64-Bit processing throughout.


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[TechnoNRGKid]

Sorry i never responeded to this post again. I went away for awhile wich sucked big time. thx alot for the links ima check em out abit later.

[Mac the Blade]

This Clone Boy thing sounds quite useful. Does anybody know of a similar plug-in that'll work on a Mac? Ideally RTAS?