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EQ'ing / sweetening percs
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| cl0ckw3rk |
Alright so, I'm very inexperienced in what good EQ'ing sounds like. Yea yea, I know, use my ears. But unfortunately, they're not trained enough to make a fitting decision. Anyhoo, I was hoping some of yall would give this a listen and criticize it to hell. It's just a basic beat with nothing too special added. No EQ'ing or compression or anything except some delay/reverb on individual sounds. Oh and yes, I know its critical to try it out with the rest of the mix too, but atm i'm not worried about that. Just focusing on this. Give me hell, because it's a great learning experience for me.
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BTW there's a really annoying click at the end of the sample...Anyone know how that happens? I rendered with ableton |
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| B_man |
The proper way of looking at EQ is "fixing" frequency clashes between instruments. For instance, if you've got a pad that's muddying the bass and kick of your track then you "fix" the problem in two ways... one of the instruments needs to lose it's 300-600hertz bass frequencies. You drop the bass frequencies in the pad, the bassline, or both, and play with it until clarity is prime. It's also about ordering your instruments -- do you want the beat to be the loudest part in your track. If so, then you EQ everything else appropriately.
For your track, you really don't need to fix anything per-se, but you can improve on certain specifications. The kick could use more punch, and the hats could use more sparkle. You can boost 1-2k frequencies in hats sparingly and test various Q's until you get that sparkle... you might even want to compress them a tad afterwards. Then the kick itself could use a little more "boom", so play with frequencies throughout the 90-200 to provide that bottom that it needs. Otherwise, you really can't say because IT DEPENDS ON WHAT OTHER ELEMENTS WILL NEED FOR THEMSELVES. Mixing is not about individual sounds but the track as a whole. To be honest, I really can't say "boost this" and "drop that" because I have no idea where your bassline is going to lie, I have no idea what kind of graph your pads will fill in, I have no idea how high or low your leads are going to be. EQing is about cutting your instrumental parts so that they fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces. |
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| cl0ckw3rk |
| thanks - i just need to focus on it from the perspective. I guess things just get most confusing when you're so overwhelmed with possibilities |
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