How Many Of You Have Eq I.q?

[masteringhouse]

I like the way you think, man

Yeah, but there's a fine line between an open mind and fantasy.

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Yeah, but there's a fine line between an open mind and fantasy.

OOoooh, now THERE'S a great sig line if I ever read one .

G.

 

[littledog]

Contrary to popullar belief (no Virginia, Columbus wasn't the first man to think the earth was round...), there were always people smart enough and observant enough to realize the earth wasn't flat, and wasn't the center of the universe, at least going well back into ancient history. The problem was, that in many places, if they expressed that opinion, the ruling theocracies made sure it was the last opinion they ever expressed...

 

[BRIEFCASEMANX]

wait a sec, what???

At first I was thinking maybe when turning the fader down, he was not hearing the transients as clearly when lowering the track, thus the sound became more background and the brain wouldn't pay as much attention to if the timing was perfect, but then he mentions bringing the volume back up with eq..................

huhhhhh?

why cause the phase distortion to do something you can do by simply moving the track? Or maybe the slight delay caused by the EQ is why he thinks the timing is changing?

 

[jndietz]

I only use EQ to change how the recorded product sounds.

 

[jmorris]

I have to record wothout eq. as my setup runs all my mic inputs from outboard mic preamps directly to my 24 track recorder then back to my console. I only add eq when I mix. I do have 1 outbaord eq., a quad eight from some famous studio in holywood,lions gate I think it was. I like recording with no eq. but Im not afraid to compress or limit when tracking. Am I eqfobic?

 

[DrJones]

An interesting thought occured to me.
How many of you have an EQ licence? What I mean is are you using or abusing them?

How many of you have tried to do an entire mix without a single equaliser?

Yes. Unless the musicians instruments Amp. is perfectly dialed in it is really hard to not use an EQ.

Do you track a sound with 2 microphones, then use the balance and phase of them as an EQ?

Never tried, that application is not a common method

Have you ever found yourself using 2 EQ's on 1 track?

When I first started recording. Now I know and understand.

Who cut's as a rule?

A Moron or a Novice

Do you use narrow Q as a way of getting the "Black background"?

Sometimes depending on what I am tring to acomplish.


GOOD NO?!?
Or am I just another knucklehwead? (I left that because it looks cool spelled that way)(typo's make me laugh)!!!!

What's your favourite trick with an EQ?

Who are we trickin'? Its an EQ!

 

[bryank]

for the most part, ill use EQ with the mindset of trying to create space for instruments to fit in thier own zone/space........but doing so will also alter the sound of each instrument as well. It just nature of the EQ.

so the original question to this topic, "do i use eq to create space for instuments, or do i use it to alter the sounds"..................................well, they both come in hand-in-hand. You cant do one, without doing the other.

oh god.....i sound like psycho-babble now........im talking jibberish crazyness.

 

[Soulgolem]

Just starting out in mixing, and I saw myself using EQ's on 90% of the tracks, helps create zones like mentionned, I don't have any EQ knowleadge, so I just move around with the a graphic EQ until I find a frequency which makes the instrument sound clearer without raising the volume, I keep this in mind while I do the same thing with cutting looking for frequencies that don't alter the sounds at all, after that, I cut what doesn't change the sound much and add a bit where it makes it come out of the mix easily. I do this a lot, then I mix the faders.

Not sure if it's a good method, but that what I figured out so far. Any comments on my method would be appreciated.

Results ? Sometimes my unmix version seem to sound a little clearer (might have used too much unlogic eq-ing) but the mix sounds more alive after that so I'm satisfied.

Go to http://myspace.com/unitsofsixty to listen to my mixes, I would really want negative comments, they help me grow !

Francis.