Hi Menmo,
I really appreciated your twitch stream on the hyper EQ. I love the sound you achieved and am more anxious to understand what I am doing than ever. I do feel like i am getting some clarification just watching you work, so thank you for that. The two questions blocks i have are the following:
At the beginning you did a pre-mix eq to just clean up the raw vocals. You set some predefined points at 5hz, 165hz, 326hz, and 10k. I understand that the 50hz was your hp rolloff and the 10k was your air band. What exactly were you looking for with the middle three frequencies. Correct me if I'm wrong but you set the smoothing to 0% in order to find the chest and throat sound. Are the noise profiles that you used for this step always the same or was that just something you heard the vocal needed?
You seem to intuitively know which guides to follow for various frequency ranges. If i use a specific guide, how much of the frequency spectrum am i trying to match up with it? For instance, you use guide x for 700hz-900hz and then you switch to a different guide for 1-3k. whats the principle here?
Sorry if this is a lot but i really loved the sounds you were able to achieve and I appreciate the effort on your part to make it more understandable. Thanks.
Amin, the sound source will show which guides are naturally a part of it...we then just "polish" them or redirect them to an alternate slope if called for. Generally speaking -4.5, brown and -7.5 are widely used for most sound sources. - Menno
Hello Amin, glad you like the streams and are finding them helpful. I will stream again tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 9am PST...please feel free to ask me anything you like then as well. In the preliminary EQ at 100% Spectrum Smoothing I was looking for the "Chest" and "Throat" lobes of the vocal performance and setting the two frequencies (165hrz / 326hrz) to them...the other crossover points remained as they were. The "ceiling" is just that...a ceiling that should not be surpassed...however it is ok if the natural shape has random "dips". For large frequency dips you can align them with other ceilings if need be...for example, in your screenshot, the "base" of the high frequency dip could be lined up with -7.5 instead of brown and the throat-lobe. I can demonstrate again tomorrow morning if you like...just please remind me during the stream and I will address it. I hope this helps and I look forward to speaking with you tomorrow. - Menno
Also i noticed that you don't completely conform the spectrum to touch all parts of the guide in a given range. Can you share the theory here behind how much you adjust in a given range and what you're looking to see