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Pikame1234
On my bass and other sounds i see on the spectrum analyzer that the HZ changes when the note on my sound changes too! must i make a different EQ setting for every note or can i keep it steady some way? :)i usaly cut thin freqs on my sound
pizzaguy
I thought my english is bad, lol.. But answer your questions is compressor.
Pikame1234
with any compressor settings? i use to use the clasical compression preset on Ableton live.
Looney4Clooney
automate the volume , eq cut or use multiband compression. That is one thing people rarely think about and that is automating EQ.
DJ RANN
Wow.

Just, wow.
Looney4Clooney
did I blow your mind.
DJ RANN
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
did I blow your mind.


Not you, them.

It was the fact he found it strange that the frequency changes depending on the note. And then the suggestion of a compressor to somehow magically fix it.
PlasticSoul
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Originally posted by Pikame1234
On my bass and other sounds i see on the spectrum analyzer that the HZ changes when the note on my sound changes too! must i make a different EQ setting for every note or can i keep it steady some way? :)i usaly cut thin freqs on my sound


No, just eq by the octave.

I recommend you read this:

http://www.recordingeq.com/EQ/req0400/OctaveEQ.htm

Enjoy.
meriter
I remember someone suggesting recording a single note of your bassline to audio and then loading that up in sampler instrument and playing it out there so there will be no variation in volume/dynamic, seems like a good idea

also i think the OP is like 12
DJRYAN™
each note is played in different Hz. Duh! That's what makes a note a note. =)

Evolve140
quote:
Originally posted by Pikame1234
On my bass and other sounds i see on the spectrum analyzer that the HZ changes when the note on my sound changes too! must i make a different EQ setting for every note or can i keep it steady some way? :)i usaly cut thin freqs on my sound


The differences in Hz are the differences in the actual notes themselves.

You want this. It's the music. Typically, cuts you make will be out of direct range of the note that is being played, the cuts are of extra harmonic content that you would like to remove. If you are seeing notes jump between HZ in a given octave, it is acceptable because it is in a given range of occupied frequencies in a mix down, and expected because you wouldn't want to cut the frequency of a note, what's the point of choosing a note to begin with, if you are just going to try and cut it? Simply, you're cutting wrong. Be aware of how many different instruments and channels play in a given range, to EQ them accordingly. If you are trying to EQ the note an instrument is playing to make the track sound better, you probably already have another instrument or sound playing the same frequency.

Hope that helps.
derail
As others have said, you probably don't want to EQ every note. It's only if a particular frequency is resonant/ overbearing that you'll want to adjust it.

It's more about what's happening, frequency-wise, over an extended timeframe (such as a half minute selection of music) than spikes at an instant in time.
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