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x-humin' kick drum & bassline?
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shamantrixx
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Posted : Sep 17, 2005 15:42
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hi there!
few weeks ago i was experimenting with some sounds and x-hum plugin from waves bundle. This plugin usualy removes 50-60 Hz hum that can get into signal from power supply cords and plugs when recording to tape devices etc. Plugin has an "audio/difference" switch so you can hear only part of the signal beeing removed by these multiple narrow Q eq. Then I tried 2 load the same plugin on a bass track, swithc to "difference" and start moving Q frequency. At some point I got some sort of metal squeek sound. I switch back to "audio" and what I got was a crystal clear bass line!!! Little more adjustments on Q widith and gain and bass line sounded really nice.
I've tried the same technique with kick drum and it also works fine. You can change settings for all Q points at once or choose only even or odd.
I would like 2 know if anybody else have come up with similar techniqe. It's so easy that I'm afraid I'm overseeing something!?
pls let me know what you think. tnx!
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Lithium
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Posted : Sep 17, 2005 16:16
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i also use that plug in, i find it very usefull , although i realised the better things are eq and compressed before passing them through waves_x_hum the less the plug in works on the sound. also i tend not to use the presets that come with the plug in, better results if you start from zero.
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shamantrixx
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Posted : Sep 17, 2005 20:14
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I do almost the same thing. In fact, i use only even or odd harmonics (depending on the bass sound) and i try to keep gain and Q as low as possible. 2 much of X-hum takes the punch from a track away.
tnx man... i'll sleep better now 
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception"
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Tricossoma
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Posted : Sep 17, 2005 23:33
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shamantrixx
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Posted : Sep 22, 2005 18:15
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welcome
i guess you could do the same job with any EQ by grouping & moving the Q points so they always hit the same harmonic in every octave... If you EQ the kick drum on 250 hz in order 2 remove that wierd sound the harmonics of that sound are present in every other octave along the logarithmic frequency range.
But I think that X-hum does this job better then any other EQ because it has more narrow Q and way much stronger gain designed 2 remove the noises without cuting nearby frequencyes as ordinary EQ would do.
btw: try to handle kick & bass as mono. Later you can make a bass line stereo again if you want, but X-hum is more accurate when handling a mono file.
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception"
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