[RWP] EQ questions

[Crystal Dennis]

Thanks everyone!  I've been using quiztones to train my ear for the
past week or so and reading stuff and it's definitely been working :)

Is there a good perametric EQ plug with presets though?  Niquist has
no presets and the other plug I use has presets but isn't perametric.
Any ideas for a low cost/free one?

On 3/30/14, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd add read somewhere into Chris's mantra. Maybe practice read
> practice practice lol. There's a ton of freely available decent
> literature out there on EQ, and while every sound source is different
> so it can't train you to fix your exact problem, it's a quick way of
> picking up some starting points of what numbers equate to what sound.
> For example, if I'm EQ-ing a snare which arrived sounding a bit boxy,
> I'd start scooping somewhere around 500 Hz and could bet my boots the
> magic scoop won't be far away. Dunno whether Niquest has presets or
> how clearly it exposes parameters to automation in Reaper, but another
> way I learned was to spend time with an EQ plugin that had presets I
> liked, flick through those and examine the numbers that changed each
> time.
>
> If you can hear enough and have taste enough to know when you're onto
> a good versus a bad thing, you can definitely learn to do this with
> numbers and without looking at the graphs. Stick with it.
>
> Hth
>
> Scott
>
> On 3/30/14, Chris Belle <cb1963 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> There is a good project out there called golden ears audio training
>> which uses
>> white and pink noise and listening lessons to
>> sharpen your ears to different frequencies.
>>
>> All I can tell you is practice, practice, practice, it's like how do you
>> teach some folks to sing on pitch, or
>> play an instrument, in a certain sense, it's something you either have
>> or don't, but if you have any of it, you can refine it.
>>
>>
>> I know how EQ works, but I have a lot of trouble using it: I sort of
>> just guestimate with the frequencies (educatedly: I can tell when I'm
>> brightening/dampening a frequency, but not what frequency it is) so my
>> question is: is there anyway to train your ear on what frequencies you
>> are tinkering with/what frequency you have changed to with the frequency
>> control? I've asked my sighted friends, but they have a hard time
>> explaining because they just look at the wave of the frequency, so I
>> thought I'd ask here. I also use the free niquist EQ plugin from magnis
>> if that helps. Thanks, Crystal
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