Dalfir said:
I definitely need production criticism, I'm starting a 3 year sound engineering course on Monday so hopefully I'll pick up a lot there, but getting advanced tips is great.
Will try that now...But how do you know when you have hit a sweetspot? I can spend an hour making minor tweaks to my bass listening for subtleties and nuances.
I'll see if I can find it, but there is a table that you can use which tells you note=frequency. That doesn't account for harmonics, it is refferring to the fundamental frequency. But the way I find the sweet spot is listening closely to the differnt layers in the note- and usually boost quite a bit until the tone I want is emphasised, then I narrow the Q, empahsising it more; this will require fiddling with the frequency slightly- and perhaps perform a corresponding cut on the kick drum at the same frequency. The point is to get everything seperate. There are heaps of ways of doing it, and soundengineering will really help with all those techniques, even if you are learning in styles of music that you won't ever record. We recorded a really large church choir, absolutely great!!
Your production sounds good really; a few things that you will just know eventually will sort it out
And just to understand the jargon, when you say cut do you mean totally cut those frequencies? That notch on my bass is at -6db...Should it be lower or higher?
Its pretty subjective really. I wouldn't totally cut, unless I wanted a very very tight band out. But a general rule of thumb is that when cutting, go down until you hear a difference, and then boost a minute bit. The more you cut, the tighter the Q should get, but don't squeeze it like. -6db is okay, anything is really, but the lower you cut, most eq's will start dragging down more sidefrequencies too; thus the Q tightening, which becomes relative the lower you gogogogogo.
A notch would be something like this --------V-------- while a shelf would be something like ______/--------?
The notch symbol is correct- the shelf symbol you drew represents the curve of a high-pass filter, the ______ being the frequcnies cut, and the / being the slope of the filter but up to the cutoff point. But a shelving-filter at its widest Q is a high-pass filter. The reverse of that symbol is for a low pass filter.
I HATE HATE HATE music and recording jargon, it literally leaves my brain the second it enters, but there are some concepts that are essential to know. You will figure them out eventually, but getting taught and learning is so much more beneficial. Psytrance is surprisingly hard to produce I think...
that doesn;t feel like it makes sense, but my brain is VERRY slow today....in a most delightful manener,. You could try adding a bit more prescene to the entire line, as in lift up the 8kHz and above augtb bit. EEK my hands have steetde goin slow,too.