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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 type=cite class=cite 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>
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