Sample Paragraphic EQ Settings...

[Bob's Mods]

Could anyone(s) share your common track parametric EQ settings for acoustic, electric guitar and vocals. It might be interesting and helpful to compare notes on this.

I typically set one node around 3k Hz with a bandwith/Q of 4. It's typically pulled up +9 or +10 dB. I also add a low cut around 150 Hz. I have found if I don't do this, when I play back the track, it won't sound like it did in the monitors when I recorded it.

Although I have checked my system for a flat response curve and it is indeed flat. I have never been able to figure out why the playback is not an exact copy of what I was listening to in my monitors while recording. Has anyone else experienced this oddity?

This EQ setting is strangely similar to the curve of how the human ear actually hears audio bandwidth.

[Blue Bear Sound]

Common EQ settings?

That's about the equivalent of asking how long a piece of string is......

There's no "common" settings -- it always depends entirely on the context of the signal you're dealing with at the time.

You can look at the frequency range of a given sound source, and use that to tailor certain adjustments, but no signal is ever identical enough to another to allow any concept of "common settings".......

[Farview]

Originally Posted by Bob's Mods

I typically set one node around 3k Hz with a bandwith/Q of 4. It's typically pulled up +9 or +10 dB. I also add a low cut around 150 Hz. I have found if I don't do this, when I play back the track, it won't sound like it did in the monitors when I recorded it.

What are you playing it back through? 10db of 3k is a huge difference. There has to be something out of whack.

[Bob's Mods]

I use a high quality small boom box for highs and two JBL bookshelf speakers connected to a small Carvin power amp for the lows. I know it's not ideal but it plays back commercial CDs with out any problems. The commercial stuff sounds dynamic and clear. I've got some blankets on the walls of my room and a carpet on the floor so the room is not very reflective.
By being radical with the eq my stuff sounds closer to the commercial stuff. Without the eq it seems impossible to match.
Without the eq, the playback doesn't sound the same as when I recorded it using the same monitors. I have never been able to explain this. Maybe my monitoring is that F****D up?
I've tried numberous pieces of gear and it always comes out the same. The only thing I haven't changed is my sound card which I only use for a S/PDIF connection. Is there a possibility that the soundcard could be messing with my digital?

[Massive Master]

Originally Posted by Bob's Mods

I typically set one node around 3k Hz with a bandwith/Q of 4. It's typically pulled up +9 or +10 dB.

It's likely that something is terribly, terribly wrong somewhere if you're doing that. I think most would consider 3-4dB and "extreme" increase.

Anything about your signal path you'd like to share? Mic? Prreamp? Sample rate & word length?

[screws]

I myself prefer an "equametric paralyzer" to a "parametric equalizer". But that's just me...