Ahh yes, back to the equalizer.\u00a0 Effective, and my job to make it effable.\u00a0 Aye, he’s (she’s) a tricky one, eh?\u00a0 Getting a handle on how equalizers work is an endeavor that will leave you laughing or crying, one or the other with not much middle ground. Another topic might be more fun for a boy or a girl and it’s not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n
HOWEVER!<\/p>\n
Once you’re over that initial hump?\u00a0 Playing with an equalizer is another way to fill your heart with joy.\u00a0 Placing that first EQ high up in your effects rack raises the stakes in making music reach the minds and hearts of listeners all over the world.\u00a0 The ache of inexperience of the average engineer is something he’s (or she’s) going to eventually let go of.\u00a0 Pretty soon they’ll be telling you how much they loved learning all about these wonky things.<\/p>\n
In case you need a few more examples – or seven – and you feel like equalizers are still like foreign languages, hopefully this blog is a diamond in the rough and your life as a budding audio engineer (read: lover of tweaking knobs) is about to sprout and blossom.\u00a0 Boy howdy. We are going to move on in the direction of more complicated concepts to fill the space your keto-compatible fatty computer made of meat with minimum waste and maximum know-power. Maybe even a little bit of joy along the way.<\/p>\n
Let’s dim the city lights and get down to business!<\/p>\n
Band nights are not as fun when you filter out all their passes and require them to pay for their own tickets.\u00a0 They typically can’t even afford a ride on the streetcar. But that’s another story. The band pass filter!\u00a0 If you have a desire for hearing only a range of some<\/em> higher frequencies without the heights of the air range and you’ve said “No” to the bass range, band pass is the place for you.<\/p>\n To be implementing this concept, you’ll be starting to ramp up at a specific frequency and then ending at another one, cutting not one side but both.\u00a0 It looks an awful lot like two filters in one: high pass somewhere to the left, and low pass somewhere to the right.\u00a0 Once you start messing with this concept, there’s no need to ask for much more. Except maybe for a side of bacon. Nueske’s preferably.\u00a0 Because dang<\/em>.<\/p>\n You could<\/em> just get some other engineer to do it for you; she’s (or he’s) probably delighted to do so.\u00a0 But if your goal is to be all smooth and suave in the studio, you’re going to have to learn to be the operator of these fancy things.<\/p>\n Boring trivia note: we’ll get later into how the coast to coast differences between LA and New York impact some of the creative uses of compressors (don’t even mention Chicago. midwest ain’t got nuthin on the ocean shores) but equalizer usage is pretty western \/ eastern agnostic.\u00a0 Male and female alike.<\/p>\n Please align your vision to this north star of a video linked below for an example and reference.<\/p>\n