Recommended EQ frequencies

FREQUENCY:


USES:

50Hz

1. Increase to add more fullness to lowest frequency instruments like foot, floor tom, and the bass.
2. Reduce to decrease the "boom" of the bass and will increase overtones and the recognition of bass line in the mix. This is most often used on loud bass lines like rock.

100Hz

1. Increase to add a harder bass sound to lowest frequency instruments.
2. Increase to add fullness to guitars, snare.
3. Increase to add warmth to piano and horns.
4. Reduce to remove boom on guitars & increase clarity.

200Hz

1. Increase to add fullness to vocals.
2. Increase to add fullness to snare and guitar ( harder sound ).
3. Reduce to decrease muddiness of vocals or mid-range instruments.
4. Reduce to decrease gong sound of cymbals.

400Hz

1. Increase to add clarity to bass lines especially when speakers are at low volume.
2. Reduce to decrease "cardboard" sound of lower drums (foot and toms).
3. Reduce to decrease ambiance on cymbals.

800Hz

1. Increase for clarity and "punch" of bass.
2. Reduce to remove "cheap" sound of guitars.

1.5KHz

1. Increase for "clarity" and "pluck" of bass.
2. Reduce to remove dullness of guitars.

3KHz

1. Increase for more "pluck" of bass.
2. Increase for more attack of electric / acoustic guitar.
3. Increase for more attack on low piano parts.
4. Increase for more clarity / hardness on voice.
5. Reduce to increase breathy, soft sound on background vocals.
6. Reduce to disguise out-of-tune vocals / guitars.

5KHz

1. Increase for vocal presence.
2. Increase low frequency drum attack ( foot / toms).
3. Increase for more "finger sound" on bass.
4. Increase attack of piano, acoustic guitar and brightness on guitars (especially rock guitars).
5. Reduce to make background parts more distant.
6. Reduce to soften "thin" guitar.

7KHz

1. Increase to add attack on low frequency drums ( more metallic sound ).
2. Increase to add attack to percussion instruments.
3. Increase on dull singer.
4. Increase for more "finger sound" on acoustic bass.
5. Reduce to decrease "s" sound on singers.
6. Increase to add sharpness to synthesizers, rock guitars, acoustic guitar and piano.

10KHz

1. Increase to brighten vocals.
2. Increase for "light brightness" in acoustic guitar and piano.
3. Increase for hardness on cymbals.
4. Reduce to decrease "s" sound on singers.

15KHz

1. Increase to brighten vocals (breath sound).
2. Increase to brighten cymbals, string instruments and flutes.
3. Increase to make sampled synthesizer sound more real.

On 2009-11-11 04:57, Jonathan wrote:
http://forum.isratrance.com/the-mother-of-all-equalization-thread/

Thread necromancy ftw

On 2009-11-11 10:46, jizy wrote:
Doesn't the fundimentle freqencys matter when Eqing, and octaves,harmonics and stuff 2? Man always gettin told different things.. Cheers for the link elad

On 2009-11-11 11:37, TuK wrote:
all these is nice but in practise in just doesn't work like that, especially in psytrance where you do alot of rough eq, like high pass the snare at around 300hz, i"ve never had to boost the snare at 200hz in order to "add fullness" it just deosnt work like that in psytrance. the most important things is to hear what your doing no chart will tell you if you need "roundness", whats "roudness" anyway?.
and another thing is to check what your doing in a good spectrum analyser, i now use the digicheck analyser and i always compare my mix with a mix that i like and i do eq or volume changes to make them more simulare and hear if the change is doing good or bad to the mix.

On 2009-11-11 12:11, *eLliSDee* wrote:
yes,, and what is body anyway?

and what about the whole mix?, adding presence to this and fullness to that if there is already a lot of info in that specific area.