[RWP] EQ questions

[Scott Chesworth]

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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