Some EQ tips from Fabfilter

seannash

Posted these over in the Dance music Production forums but there equally as relavent here i guess

some basic enough stuff but it might help out a few folks


also this one

PaulBrewer

Good Stuff Sean.

PaulBrewer

I love the interface - reminds me of the Epure EQ.

Does anyone use this ?

seannash

i think damaged has it

it does look good,ive heard nothing but good things about anything fabfilter

there compressor looks great too

DamagedTrax

seannash wrote: »

i think damaged has it

yup, its my goto clean eq. its beautiful to use and has unlimited bands.

great for broad boosts and severe cuts and the analyser is pretty good.

the biggest thing for my is how it works in m/s - add a band, split band, you now have a split band m/s eq with clear visual on what you're doing. i always use it on group channels, for example on a guitar buss you can pull a lot of 1k-2.5k out from the middle to make room for the lead vocal while at the same time leave it in the sides so you dont lose a lot of tone of the guitar. same as making room for bass guitar in the 2/300hz region.

seannash

DamagedTrax wrote: »

yup, its my goto clean eq. its beautiful to use and has unlimited bands.

great for broad boosts and severe cuts and the analyser is pretty good.

the biggest thing for my is how it works in m/s - add a band, split band, you now have a split band m/s eq with clear visual on what you're doing. i always use it on group channels, for example on a guitar buss you can pull a lot of 1k-2.5k out from the middle to make room for the lead vocal while at the same time leave it in the sides so you dont lose a lot of tone of the guitar. same as making room for bass guitar in the 2/300hz region.

i remember you talking about the m/s and until i watched this i didnt understand how beneficial it could be.

pretty sweet feature,im presuming its exclusive to this eq?

trackmixstudio

Good vidz alright.
He is using the tried and tested "seek and destroy" method.
Most experienced engineers do this. Boost to find resonant frequencies then cut them. You can sometimes think stuff sounds dull when you cut high mids but once your ears adjust you will normally find it fine.
Here is a vid of the master, George Massenburg, doing the same thing with his own eq.
http://www.transaudiogroup.com/video-3-8200-demo
Watch all the vidz. They are great.
I would kill for 8 channels of GML eq:eek:

seannash

trackmixstudio wrote: »

You can sometimes think stuff sounds dull when you cut high mids but once your ears adjust you will normally find it fine.

thats reassuring to hear,i do find myself thinking ive totally killed a sound by doing that

Neurojazz

seannash wrote: »

i remember you talking about the m/s and until i watched this i didnt understand how beneficial it could be.

pretty sweet feature,im presuming its exclusive to this eq?

There are a few that deal with M/S.

Brainworx, TC MD3 are the only ones i've seen so far - there are probably others.

jtsuited

yeah the brainworx one was famous for doing m/s, but iirc it's very old and they don't make it anymore (open to correction on that).

Neurojazz

jtsuited wrote: »

yeah the brainworx one was famous for doing m/s, but iirc it's very old and they don't make it anymore (open to correction on that).

Still alive!


http://www.brainworx-music.de/en/plugins/bx_digital_v2