what is up yo it's your boy Tony holiday
back at it again with another video in
today's video we're going to be talking
about another fundamental of music
production and that is the topic of
Equalization or what's known as EQ what
is e q exactly EQ is essentially taking
different frequencies of a track and
either cutting them out bringing them
down bringing them up etc etc today I'm
going to be showing you the channel EQ
in Logic Pro and all the different
parameters that go along with it and
also how to use it effectively on top of
a beat that I've made before we get
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into this video talking about
Equalization or EQ in Logic Pro so first
things first you guys I was making this
beat the other day and I thought it
would be a good example to use when
using Equalization so here's a listen to
the whole beat and then I'll go in
through each track and we can affect the
EQ from there just a basic trap beat but
again I'm gonna show you how to take
each track and affect it from there what
I have here is just a buss of all the
melodies that I've made so there's a top
melody the kind of Mane which is the
keys there melody
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then I just have this little bass lead
underneath to kind of make it sound a
little fuller the drums on top of that
which is going to be all of these and
finally if we add the 808 on top of that
as well but that's enough of the track
guys let's get right into the EQ now to
actually open up a channel EQ what
you're gonna want to do is go over to
the instrument side here so I'm gonna go
on top of this melody we'll do the top
melody specifically to start click this
little EQ box here you can also find it
by going into audio effects EQ channel
EQ stereo this is what a standard
channel EQ looks like in Logic Pro
there's 8 different bands on this
channel EQ and what that means is
there's essentially 8 different slots
that we can affect the EQ with this 3
different styles the one on the left
here with this red slope and then this
plateau at the top this is what's known
as either a high-pass filter or a
low-cut filter and that goes for the
same with the pink one here on the far
right side that's gonna be with just the
opposite either a high cut filter or a
low pass filter so to give you a visual
guys your frequencies are gonna be shown
here on the spectrum these essentially
affect the frequencies depending on
where you place the four this top melody
that we have here if we play it we have
the analyzer on you can see those white
lines coming up that's our set
essentially showing the frequencies that
that track is actually playing now
moving on from the two end ones there we
have these other two which are the
second one in and that's a shelf the
previous ones were made to actually cut
frequencies out these are actually made
to kind of either raise or lower
frequencies that are on the ends of our
frequency spectrum we go with this
orange one here and we actually raise
that up you can see that it's going to
be raising up the frequencies on this
side or we can also do things like lower
it down here the same goes with the
purple shelf here on the far right side
it's just gonna be in the more high
frequency range the 4 in the middle here
the yellow-green kind of turquoise and
blue one these are for kind of the
frequencies which is everything in
between
the ends that you wanted to lower or cut
out we can again move any of these along
the frequency spectrum can either raise
the frequencies lower them to cut them
out we can make this skinnier that's
gonna essentially
allow you to shape your sound now that
we know what each of these different
types of EQ czar I'll actually show you
some different parameters down here as
well this top row here with Hertz on the
end that's going to actually be the
frequency that you're going to be
affecting we had this kind of yellow on
here we can change this and horizontally
that's going to move across the spectrum
to kind of give us the exact frequency
that we want to affect the one just
below that is going to be our actual
gain added or our gain reduction that's
going to be how much we're boosting that
frequency or how much we're actually
taking it away from the production the
bottom one is what's known as our cue
field and that's gonna have sensually
either make it skinnier or a wider range
that we are affecting the frequency with
top ones the actual frequency the middle
one is the gain that we're adding or
reducing bottom one is the actual field
or how much of that frequency we're
affecting you can see here that we also
have this kind of little box here with
these lines we can move the frequencies
with that as well horizontally if we
grab this one we can only move it either
up or down doesn't matter if I move this
left or right it's only affecting the
game ninety degree angle here which has
the four arrows that allows us to go up
down side to side and that's essentially
doing the cue field and the game can
also grab the ball which will do the
frequency and then also the game when
you grab any of these and press command
it will limit your abilities to just one
of those parameters if we go with the 90
degree one here and we press command
that'll only allow us to change the cue
field no matter how much we actually
move the mouse around there same thing
goes with the dot if we grab that and
press command that will only allow us to
do the game so if you found the right
frequency and you really want to
surgically just do the game hold command
to only lock it to that one parameter we
have some presets up here which is nice
we have mastering ones vocals horns
guitar I'll let you go through those on
your own to kind of take a look bottom
of our channel EQ here also has three
different options we have the analyzer
and that's going to actually show the
frequency spectrum post is going to show
the frequency spectrum after we've done
any EQ on this click that
and goto pre which will be the track
before any of the EQ so you can get an
idea of where the track was and then
where the track has actually been shaped
to go as well next to the analyzer we
have the cue couple and what that does
Italy automatically change the cue field
depending on the game you've set it at
and depending on the frequency that's
actually there the last one here is the
processing we have lots of different
options here we can do the left side or
the right side the mid or the side only
the left side here as well this is going
to be our scale display and I'll give
you example what that is if we play this
top melody you can see that the
frequencies just reside in this area so
essentially we wouldn't have to EQ any
of the high side or the low side out
here if you actually take the scale
display on the left and you click and
hold then you drag it down you can see
that we actually moved down the spectrum
here now if I play this again it's a
much bigger frequency spectrum can see
that we needed to actually take out some
lows and take out some highs when we are
kind of fit in other things like high
hats and the highs with you know weight
and the low end the right side and the
kind of last parameter to go over here
is the game that's gonna be the game for
the whole entire frequency spectrum what
we can do with this knob here is it'll
take the entire curve that we've made
raise the game with that or lower the
game so as you can see the whole thing
raised this is the whole thing going
down so that's essentially what the
channel EQ looks like and all the
different parameters now I'm gonna show
you how to use it on top of different
tracks to kind of make things fit
together better I like to think of EQ as
like a 3-dimensional box that you're
trying to get all your different tracks
to fit in properly I'll show you what I
mean by that and we'll go through this
track right now for the top melody we
want them get these three melodies to
fit together let's take a look at the
top melody EQ let's take out some of the
low frequencies in the high frequencies
and just kind of gate those mids going
grab the low-cut take it up to about 200
the same thing with the high to maybe
like five thousand notice that you still
see the EQ curve there that's because we
have the pre selected now if we hit post
that will cut it off and show us what it
looks like now go on to the main keys
here
finally the bass lead that I have I have
also routed all these melodies to this
melody bus here what I can do with that
is add an EQ take out all of the low-end
say below maybe like a hundred and
twenty and that'll leave us room for our
kick in our 808 to kind of fit in there
properly now let's move on to the drums
take a look at the kick here typically
humans can't hear below about thirty
Hertz so we'll do that cut right there
make it steep we'll also take out some
of the highest to make room for the high
hats or perks move on to the clap and
the snare
you
take a little high-end out for the
Hyatts to perk
and finally the hi-hats last but not
least let's also do this 808
you
something to keep in mind about 8o rates
and kicks as well as like I said when
you move this scale display down you can
see that there's a lot of high-end in
those 808 sand kicks
I actually recommend leaving the
majority of that in and that's because
on things like
iPhone speakers or low quality
headphones those are the actual
frequencies that are gonna shine through
to allow you to hear it and when you're
playing on bigger speaker set systems
and monitor headphones you can always
hear those low frequencies because
they're high-quality but the majority of
people are going to be listening to it
on headphones or on iPhone speakers or
low quality speakers so you do want to
make sure that you have those
frequencies to accentuates that people
can actually hear the low end and your
track for this reason I don't do too
much EQ to my kick or my 808 and on the
melody I've also taken out the lows to
make room for that let's take a listen
to this and see what it sounds like you
might not be able to tell through
YouTube or with the lower quality
speakers but through my monitor
headphones it's a big difference that we
have those things eq'd and we've shaped
the track to fit together properly so
that there's not gonna be any clipping
and everything has its place in that
3-dimensional box that I was talking
about but yeah guys with that being said
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I'll see you in the next video Tony
holiday signing off
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