Blending EQ ?

[Vigo]

Was just wondering again, do you guys blend a lot of EQ together-

What i mean is for exemple : I have a guitar track and i put a send with lower volume where i only cut some high freqs

I haven't been doing that ever but just thought maybe some of you did... so?

 

[Greg_L]

No. Redundant if it's only EQ.

 

[mixsit]

I've heard off some parallel eq' but I’d think at best, pretty frikin esoteric. Not like parallel comp where you can blend the straight sig with wild combinations you simply can’t get to in a straight path compression.

 

[ido1957]

I've cloned a bass track once and eq'd it with no lows and just highs to make it pop during a certain section of the song. What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[TripleM]

The only thing I personally do that kind of thing for is reverb (which is pretty common). It's also fairly common to do that kind of thing with compression. But I never do that kind of thing for EQ. I don't see much use for it with EQ, just due to the nature of what EQ does.

I think ido asks a good question - what are you trying to accomplish?

 

[Pinky]

I've cloned a bass track once and eq'd it with no lows and just highs to make it pop during a certain section of the song. What are you trying to accomplish?

This is also a common trick for getting a 'click' in your kick drum.

 

[Vigo]

I've cloned a bass track once and eq'd it with no lows and just highs to make it pop during a certain section of the song. What are you trying to accomplish?

Not really trying anything was just wondering about techniques i don't know. I find interesting the things you said about Bass and what Pinky said about the kick drum

 

[miroslav]

Generally speaking (and as others have said) it's not a common approach to "blend" a few EQs, since there usually little reason to do that, unless you are doing something special or extreme, for effect.

That said....it wouldn't be odd to say, use a parametric EQ at one stage of the editing process to maybe remove sibilance or fix some problem on a track, using the EQ more surgically....and then later on during mixing, apply a more gentle/wider EQ to adjust the overall tone of that same track.

 

[mixsit]

..That said....it wouldn't be odd to say, use a parametric EQ at one stage of the editing process to maybe remove sibilance or fix some problem on a track, using the EQ more surgically....and then later on during mixing, apply a more gentle/wider EQ to adjust the overall tone of that same track.

Since I do it often enough to mention- I'll sometimes a have band or two of eq automation on tracks. Vocals or guitars are the useual suspects ( though if vocals that would be on wham bham get in and out quick' recordings, or live's.