Lazy, Lazy EQ Question

[chrisharris]

For awhile, I've been wondering if there's a way to get CoolEdit to basically "flatline" EQ a track without me having to manually boost and cut different frequencies. When I take a song that sounds good to me (usually some commercially recorded something or other), and I view the "frequency analysis," it's usually basically flat, without any dramatic cuts or boosts in any particular frequencies. The tracks that I've recorded that sound the best on my stereo, in my car, on a cheap boombox, etc., show a fairly flat EQ response, but it's usually not the result of any fine tuning by me...it just turned out that way. When I try to achieve the same thing manually, it never ends up quite as good. I love this software, and I'm thinking there has to be some way to have it "automagically" EQ for me...or maybe it's compression. Any help would be appreciated.

Any link to any other thread addressing this would be fine...since I'm being so lazy about this.

Thanks

[Omega]

Band compression is the probably the easiest way to solve this problem. First, use the frequency analysis feature to determine exactly what band of frequencies you want to attenuate and by to what dB level you want them cut. Then, go into the compression plugin, define the band width of the frequencies you want attenuated in "Band Limiting," and specify the dB level you want them cut to in the "Traditional" menu.

EQ can also be applied to a certain extent to flatten frequencies, but again, it attenuates everything equally in a specified bandwidth (it cuts down the average frequency level as well as problematic spikes) and may add phasing problems.

I hope this helps.

[chrisharris]

Omega...thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm gonna' go squish some frequencies right now.

Chris