Originally Posted by
Eric
Hey so I for one don't really understand EQing. What's the best way to learn? Is there an online resource you'd recommend, or should I just hang out with sound guys or what?
Heh, I understand much about EQ'ing and still understand very little, if that makes sense.
I don't really like using EQ to adjust real guitar sounds - I haven't touched my amps EQ in years. I don't think you're ultimately changing anything but surface when you tweak EQ's. It won't change the type of saturation and the curve of clip etc. basics of the sound - it's just sonic band-aid when you're working with c**p base sound such as modelers yield. And, with a real guitar, once you start putting stuff like a proper EQ in the signal path, the game's already lost by that point due to too many IC's in the path, it just destroys the sound completely. Although some people with stone ears hear no difference, at least to me it's like a night and day comparing a direct line to my amp and then with a pedal too many or gain stage in between.
However, as I said, these modelers are so much easier to record with and sound just the same to the listener anyway, so with these you do need some EQ perhaps, if the models are bad. I rather just find good models to start with, there's hundreds of them.
IMO Unless your guitar sound is totally c**p you don't need any EQ, but if you _want_ to tweak EQ because your guitar is some dull-sounding passive-miked regular banger, what you really want is a paragraphic midrange EQ, because in guitars midrange is always the key. Usually boosting a suitably narrow band around 2500Khz works pretty well for guitars. Around 400 there is often much muck to clear off as well, might want to use a dip there. And you can quite freely put a hi-pass filter below 70Hz or so it's just mush there.
Dee
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