Would someone be willing to EQ a short (10 sec) audio clip and send it back to me?

[jdbeaton33]

The fx chain I'm using is as follows: blue cat triple eq, waves c4, kjearus (prolly spelled wrong haha) golden audio channel (for de-esser and noise gate), and waves rveb

I have everything more or less "conquered" as far as where it should be at or how I should adjust...except the EQ. I'm sweeping it with a high pass but I simply cannot decided on what hz to cut the vocal at! For instance, one hz and maybe 10 hz away sound virtually similiar! I'm basically having a hard time finding the medium point between the vocal sounding too thin and the vocal being too boomy...I was hoping to get an outside perspective from someone else (as in multiple ears hearing it, not just mine)

But I record all types of music and am currently working on a hip hop project of a friend of mine. I would just email a small (idk ten second clip) of his dry record take and I would preferably like to send the equalizer plug in as well (it's a free one) as you would be able to tell me at what point you did what, ya know? Anyhow, I appreciate everyone's help as a lot of you are gracious enough to share your knowledge with the rest of us, we thank you!

-Justin

Here's a link to what the current EQ is looking like (sorry its slightly blurry): https://i1179.photobucket.com/albums/x387/jdbeaton33/P9210059.jpg

 

[CFox]

Hi. Why dont you upload it to megaupload or dropbox. Both the before and after clips.

BTW, that EQ snapshot, you are running that across a vocal ? There goes your punch, that curve is pulling out your mids.

You need to roll off the the low bass only. Experiment with a steeper slope around 130 Hz. Do you have access to Cool Edit Pro 2.0 or Reaper ? The FFT filter in either of these apps is good for the job.

 

[RAMI]

No, 1hz and 10 hz won't make a difference.

If I'm reading your picture correctly, you're cutting everything starting at about 1k. That vocal must sound thin as hell, which is why you think you need a de-esser, you're cutting all your mids and lows, you've got nothing BUT "ess" left.

 

[Audio Mastering]

From the looks of it, you might be going by some sort of rules for EQing and who ever told you to do that shoudl be shot!

EQ is very sinple to use. All you need to do is use your ears until it sounds right. it doesnt get any easier than that.

Maybe the problem is that you do not know how to use an EQ. If thats the case read this: EQ Tips

CJ