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| Pikame1234 |
| Must i eq hihats, clap, snare, lead and so on with the kick and bass? is the kick and bass its own sound? |
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| Pagan-za |
| EQ everything is my motto. Lots of shelving of the lows and little dips and peaks where needed. |
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| sako487 |
| EQ everything, and always lowcut ;] |
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| Storyteller |
| Mine is actually the opposite. Find proper source sounds and eq as little as possible :D. Works for me. |
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| sicc |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
Mine is actually the opposite. Find proper source sounds and eq as little as possible :D. Works for me. |
i tend to do that, and in my experience its A LOT easer said than done. A healthy mix of the both have been working for me |
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| vt100 |
'yes' was the best answer here. But to elaborate:
"eq what is necessary"
Sounds like you need to do some homework. Basically, there are a handful of reasons you want to eq, my favorite being these two:
"to make things fit in the mix"
"to sculpt a sound into something else"
There are others though, anyways, go out there and read the basics of eq. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Pikame1234
is the kick and bass its own sound? |
Yes and no. It's often a good approach to treat them individually and as a single unit. They occupy much of the same frequency range and therefore can be tricky to deal with because they create a tremendous amount of low end energy when/where they overlap. A few common ways to deal with this:
- avoid having them overlap (e.g., play the bass on the off-beats (i.e., not at the same time as the kick)
- "duck" or sidechain the bass to the kick - this will decrease the level of the bass whenever the kick is playing, thereby minimizing the buildup of low end frequencies
- find the primary frequency range of your bass (a spectrum analyzer helps here) and carve a notch (using a parametric EQ) of the same frequency range in your kick drum - use your ears to determine how much EQ is needed in the kick drum to minimize low end peaks.
- buss/group your kick and bass, then EQ and compress/limit them as one unit. Use EQ at this stage to get rid of any lingering problem frequencies. Compression will help glue them together.
These aren't the only ways of doing it, but they're commonly used and are usually very effective, especially when used in combination. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by cryophonik
- find the primary frequency range of your bass (a spectrum analyzer helps here) and carve a notch (using a parametric EQ) of the same frequency range in your kick drum - use your ears to determine how much EQ is needed in the kick drum to minimize low end peaks.
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Forgot to mention that you can do the opposite as well - find the peak frequencies (i.e., the "meat") of the kick drum and carve a corresponding notch in the bass. Since the meat of the kick drum *usually* lies below that of the bass, you might be better off shelving or hi-pass filtering (as opposed to using a notch/bell filter) the bass down around that range to minimize the low-end mud. |
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