EQ sweep

[stupidfatnugly]

when you are doing your sweep and you find the frequencies where it rings or whistles do you want to cut or boost those? sometimes they sound good to me and other times bad.

[NYMorningstar]

Not sure, When your walking down the street and you step in a puddle do you want to jump for joy or wish someone else stepped in it?

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Originally Posted by stupidfatnugly

sometimes they sound good to me

You have an ear made for photography.

G.

[mixsit]

Originally Posted by stupidfatnugly

when you are doing your sweep and you find the frequencies where it rings or whistles do you want to cut or boost those? sometimes they sound good to me and other times bad.

I don't understand -as if you'd be doing a sweep' without first deciding why?
Would the intent be to find frequency clashes or hot spots -or to find cool tones to boost?

[jmorris]

I think the OP is trying to say he has trouble finding then "bad" freq.'s or at least deciding which are bad. He may be wanting to ask how the rest of us decide what is a bad freq. and what isnt. In other words what defines a bad freq.

[mixsit]

In that case that would be frequencies that stick out in a disproportionate or an inappropriate amount, or from combinations with other tracks that do that.
Generally except for the normal really obvious things I'd just as soon start with the minimum fussing over individual tracks then letting the mix say what's out of whack.
(I don't get the 'sweeping around looking for bad' sound thing. It's hard enough keeping your ears (tone perspective) in shape going in and out of eq' and solo' modes as it is.

[stupidfatnugly]

you know like your snare: it rings at a certain frequency

do you give that frequency a boost or a cut?

I was just rereading one of my books and it said to sweep around looking for the cool stuff

jmorris, you got it: I can say what sounds bad to me but it's usually very obvious like a refrigerator being pushed down the stairs and then boosted to severe clipping but my ears aren't trained well enough to know the minor details.

thanks to all you wise guys

[Dogbreath]

what I've been working at lately is sweeping a boosted, fairly narrow Q across the EQ field til I find what sounds really ugly on that track, and then switch the boost to a cut.
Obviously simplified but ya get the meaning.

peace-n-shit............Kel

[mixsit]

Originally Posted by stupidfatnugly

you know like your snare: it rings at a certain frequency

do you give that frequency a boost or a cut?

Good example. Lets say there's a nice-a ring-snare tone, perfectly valid style.
Cool.
Now let's say by the third or forth song this frikin snare is starting to drive you nuts... er.. 'it's starting to sound a little over done', yeah that's it. Or maybe a case where that part of it just sticking out in that song above the snap or body tone more than it should.
You want a little 'ring, you notch 'a little.
Notch away. ...Or not.

I got this slide part that's sounding to thick, BIG. So I start diming down on it. But then I see this freq' I picked is also the damn tonic he's playin in..
What to do.
Pieces.