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<DIV>this is true, one only gains through p ractice, and
though these plugins may be able to go to extremes one must be subtle when
applying them to music.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rwp@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:rwp@bluegrasspals.com">Chris Smart via RWP</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 31, 2015 12:00 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=rwp@bluegrasspals.com
href="mailto:rwp@bluegrasspals.com">Reapers Without Peepers</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=csmart8@cogeco.ca href="mailto:csmart8@cogeco.ca">Chris
Smart</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Rwp] EQ Chart for Different
Instruments</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'>Matej,<BR>You
don't need a chart beyond something like this:<BR><A
href="http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html"
eudora="autourl">http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html<BR></A>to get
started, and whatever you can find on wikipedia and elsewhere. try searching for
"instrument ranges". Look up the note values on the chart linked to
above.<BR><BR>Start with a pitch whose sound you know well, middle C, 4th octave
A, etc. and start mapping things out for yourself by doubling the frequency for
an octave up, and halving the frequency (dividing by 2) for an octave
down.<BR><BR>Do this with other sounds you hear all the time, such as electrical
hum, 1KHZ test tones, etc. basically, any common sound you have available. If
you have a good musical ear for pitch, you just need to attach frequency labels
to many of the sounds with which you are already familiar.<BR>If you have a
keyboard or piano handy, use it! Wikipedia should give you the common ranges for
just about any instrument. it's up to you to take those pitches and look up
their frequency values, then work at learning to recognize the sounds of those
note ranges. You're building a map in your head. <BR><BR>The rest of this post
is not directed at you specifically, but for anybody else who is asking "how do
I learn to use an equalizer?" That comes up a lot on these mailing lists and
folks, all the information you could ever want to know about equalizers is out
there on the web, in Youtube videos, in any book on mixing, in the documentation
for many EQ plug-ins etc. <BR><BR>To get started: If your stereo, mp3 player,
whatever, has bass and treble knobs, you already know what those broad frequency
ranges sound like. So start breaking those larger areas into smaller bands
- deep or sub bass, mid-bass, low-midrange, high-midrange, etc. Gradually,
you'll learn to focus in on narrower and narrower frequency
bands.<BR>Experiment. A lot. Practice practice practice.<BR><BR>Find the
fundamental but also learn to find the stronger harmonics in various
instruments. What makes a trumpet sound brassy? Where's the warmth in a
saxophone, or the buzz of the reed? Where's the sibilance in a vocal, where's
the chesty or nasal quality? Where's the fundamental of a kick drum or
bass guitar, now where's the click of that kick drum and the attack of that bass
guitar? <BR> <BR>As for the common filter types in most equalizers,
google is your friend. High-pass can also be thought of as low-cut.
They're the same thing, just with different names. Low-pass can also be thought
of as high-cut. Look up the term "q factor" and how it is calculated. Look up
terms like "parametric", "corner frequency" etc. Boost a frequency a lot. Change
the parameters you have available to you - filter type, Q, shelf steepness etc.)
and listen to the results change.<BR><BR>Sorry for going on a mini-rant
there.<BR><BR>Chris<BR><BR>At 10:48 AM 10/31/2015, you wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Hi again,<BR>sorry for the somewhat
off-topic topic, but does anyone have a blind<BR>friendly EQ chart for
different instruments - for example as a PDF? It<BR>doesn't have to be very
detailed - I'm mainly interested in instrument<BR>ranges. I have found a
couple of them, but unfortunately they are<BR>quite hard to read. Primary
instrument ranges would be enough, but I<BR>wouldn't mind if extra information
was included.<BR>Sorry again for the spam.<BR>Thanks a
lot.<BR>Matej<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>RWP
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