I often tend to do it quite similar I think... Not sure how
'authodox' it is, but my useual approach is to stick the track or bus
EQ on, and put a 'high pass' filter on, and starting from the bottom
raise the frequency until I just* notice its cut out a bit of audible
sound; basically filtering off the frequencies that people either
can't hear, or don't have the speakers to be able to reproduce.
Having said that, I can definately hear down to 20 HZ on my monitors,
and on my larger HiFi speakers, but its just not there at all on my
little HiFi speakers or my small monitor speakers (an early purchase
on route to the somewhat better set-up I have now)...
I've also tried the same with putting a low pass filter on, and
starting at a high frequency moving down, but I just don't like the
sound when your missing even the very high frequencies (though again
I'm guessing much of what you hear as you say is the harmonics of
audio with frequencies above 22 or 23 KHZ - still supprized I can
hear the high frequences now I'm getting a little* older...)
Actually, there were some good articles and guides about using EQ in
Sound on Sound magazine (which are free online as they're oldish
articles), and also on audio tuts (think that is spelt right). :- I
sometimes go back to these from time to time just to remind myself,
especially when I can't achieve what I want with an EQ; they've got
good articles on compression and limiting too, and no doubt other FX
that we use.
Mark
On 12/07/2010, Chris Belle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using a high pass filter to cut out inaudible frequencies and then
> boosting the useable ones with a shelf
> is an excellent way to thump the house with kick-ass bass without
> eating up all the headroom in your mix.
>
> A good multi-band compressor and maybe a harmonic re-enforcement can
> do the rest.
>
> For for most music I do,
> I don't need that much low end bass, it's not abou the fundamental
> frequencies but the harmonics anyway,
> even high end decent monitor speakers don't generally rate down to
20 hertz,
> because you just don't have that much useable stuf down there.
>
>
> At 04:47 PM 7/11/2010, you wrote:
>>Having played about with EQ a fair bit within sonar on my half-decent
>>Alesis prolinear monitors, and even with my less than perfect hearing
>>these days, I can hear down to about 20 HZ, but as said, once down
>>any further than that its more a question of 'feeling' the vibrations
>>rather than 'hearing' them.
>>
>>Actually it quickly becomes easier to hear the doors and various
>>instruments in my room start vibrating once you go down below 20 HZ or
>>thereabouts.
>>
>>I often tend to put a filter on to take out most frequencies below
>>about 27 HZ as they take up a lot of headroom in the mix, and seeing
>>as how most people can't hear the frequencies down there (either
>>because of their hearing, or as is more often the case, because of
>>poor speakers they're using.), your not really cutting anything out of
>>the mix.
>>
>>Mark
>>
>>On 11/07/2010, Drew <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > k=killo. killo=a thousand. A thousand=1k!
>> > The human ear can only hear as low as 20HZ; below that you start
getting
>> > into the fundamental molecular bonds and it's more a vibration
than a
>> > sound; rather dangerous ones at those levels, actually.
>> > On 7/11/2010 1:08 PM, Blake Hardin wrote:
>> >> Hi all, been going through the golden ears program and i was
wondering
>> >> is there a reason why he goes from 31 hz, 63 hz, 125 hz, 250
hz, 500
>> >> hz, 1 KHZ, 2 KHZ, 4 KHZ and so on? What i mean is there an
order of hz
>> >> and khz that needs to be memorized so to speak? And is there any
>> >> reason why he is just doubling the numbers? What is the lowest
HZ that
>> >> you can go down to that a sub will pick up? The lowest i have
seen is
>> >> i believe 27 hz or maybe 31 hz. Is there not a 1 HZ? or a 10
HZ? lol
>> >> Im guessing you cant go down that low? Thanks.
>> >>
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