Eq-ing voice

[11miles]

Hey,

I've been seaching the forum, for soeme good tips on how to eq voice, so it really gets out of the speakers!

THe low cut, the presence boost, high shelf?

With man voices, i tend to cut it around 80Hz. I cut this band around 450-500, with really great results. THen boost the mid range at around 3-4k. Both for 3-4dB, or whatever is necessary. And then i boost the high's with the hgh shelf at around 8-9k

Similar to women but the bands are a bit higher. Low cut at 110?

Anyway, i've been wondering what is your aproach?
How do you do it?

How does the eq-ing change when you have the singer really close (proximity effect)

[Dogman]

Originally Posted by 11miles

Hey,

I've been seaching the forum, for soeme good tips on how to eq voice, so it really gets out of the speakers!

THe low cut, the presence boost, high shelf?

With man voices, i tend to cut it around 80Hz. I cut this band around 450-500, with really great results. THen boost the mid range at around 3-4k. Both for 3-4dB, or whatever is necessary. And then i boost the high's with the hgh shelf at around 8-9k

Similar to women but the bands are a bit higher. Low cut at 110?

Anyway, i've been wondering what is your aproach?
How do you do it?

How does the eq-ing change when you have the singer really close (proximity effect)

I have found, with my own voice anyway, that if I'm close to the mic, I might need to take down the low end a bit more than when I am farther from teh mic. It all depends on the song for me, as some tunes need the boomy lower end, and some don't. I usually don't take any highs out, but might if some how they don't fit. This probably has to do with my 1/4 octave range though...
If I want a somewhat lo-fi type sound, then I cut highs, and lows a bit, more of the lows. But, it's all gonna be different with each voice, and probably with each song.
Ed

[11miles]

yes i know, that it depends from the voice!

But in general, some good ways too try the voice to come out of the speakers?
Mine are as described...
I do all the ''finding out'' with sweeping!
I find it the easiest way, to boost up everything and try to set Q jsut right!
Not to BELL-y and not to NOTCH-y

I have had some good reults!

And i like to take the ''garbage out'' in the 200Hz region! Some voices are very muffled there! I liek to take them out aswell!

SO in general it's a lot more cutting than boosting!

THe proximity is where things get a bit more complicated if you ask me!
You want to do it bassy- Otherwise you would not go for the ''get your mouth as close to the mike as possible'' method!

Usually you wont voice to be up close, and with bassy feeling you are not in the right direction! I still have nto found a great way to deal with it in the mix!


And do you compress right away? Much?

[Dogman]

Originally Posted by 11miles

And do you compress right away? Much?

I actually compress just a little at tracking, but mainly because I can't sing, and am loud most of the time. Keeps my vocal a little more even. I think with a good performance, you won't need to do this, but I never have a good performance...

[scarboro78]

Originally Posted by 11miles

Similar to women but the bands are a bit higher. Low cut at 110?

Why would you cut more low end of a woman's voice?? Unless she sounds like Barry White.. (which would be scary)

[scrubs]

Hopefully, if I did my job right when tracking, I don't need any EQ adjustments other than, perhaps, a low cut at around 80-100Hz. Work on microphone placement, preamp gain staging, and possibly slight compression when tracking to make the vocal "stick out."