Hey guys, Will from EDM tips here. This week we're gonna look at the basics of
equalization so we're gonna look at what the different controls of an equalizer
are and how we can use them thanks for subscribing and let's hop into our DAW
and get it done so when we are making a track obviously we have all these
different elements and each one has certain frequencies that was an
equaliser or an EQ does is basically reduce certain frequencies or boost
certain frequencies it's that simple so humans can hear from about 20 Hertz to
20 kilohertz give or take 20 Hertz is really low 20 kilohertz it's really high
so equalizers operate within this spectrum I'm going to use the fabfilter
pro-q EQ solely for the reason that it's got a good display so I can show you
what's going on but you don't need to use this you can just use your stock
plug-in in your door so here we've got a piano and you can see that the display
on the equalizer shows the spectrum which is obviously one of the four
dimensions in our mixing space the frequency spectrum so it goes from 20
Hertz down here all the way up to 20 kilohertz up here which is the entire
spectrum of human hearing and what an EQ does is basically give us control over
the different frequencies within our sound so for instance we can dictate the
lowest frequencies in the sound and cut everything out below that and we do that
using a high-pass filter which is the first of our EQ tools so let's hear that
we've got our frequency knob here which will dictate which frequency is being
affected so this is what the high-pass filter does
so we can hear it's actually cut out those frequencies beneath the frequency
that we've selected with the frequency knob now that is called a high pass
filter or a low cut means the same thing really
so obviously the opposite of that would be the high cut or the low pass which
allows low frequencies to get to come through beneath the frequency that we've
selected
so it's chopping out those high frequencies the next kind of EQ filter
that we can use is called a shelf I'm gonna use a low shelf and what this is
is it will just shelve the frequencies rather than completely rolling them off
like the high-pass or low cut filter if you put the gain right down then of
course it's going to have the same effect as a high pass filter or a low
cut filter the gain knob in the middle dictates by how much the frequencies are
increased in amplitude or decreased in amplitude it stands to reason that the
opposite of the low shelf is a high shelf and is exactly as you'd expect
you
and the next EQ curve type is actually called a bell and this is very good for
honing in on specific frequencies and I'll show you what the cute knob is more
clearly here so we'll put the gain up and if we use a cue knob we can see that
the actual amount of frequencies the band width being affected increases or
decreases
and this is very useful if you want to hone in as I say on a particular
frequency and you might use reductive EQ to take out certain frequencies with
what's known as a notch which is just a bell but with a very high Q value or you
might raise particular frequencies too and that is basically how you use an EQ
in your door like I said a pretty basic video but if you've never actually
learnt this stuff and hopefully it's been of some use to you if you want to
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for subscribing and until next time Cheers and happy producing