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The Equalizer
Jul. 13th, 2024 10:12 pmI was down in the studio in and around laundry today (still got to go down and retrieve the towels!) playing with some tracks that I had done a quick mix on earlier so that I could send them to a friend. The quick mix wasn't bad, but it was time to look at it a bit more critically.
The first thing I realized was ..that I wasn't really happy with the sound of my guitar. That track was a direct in from the Taylor ES2 system and it was sounding thin. Pretty much everything that I'm using in terms of plugins at the moment is from Universal Audio and I had thrown the Hitsville EQ on this. It wasn't being a good choice.
When in doubt, try to learn from the experience of others. So I opened up the search engine and asked for suggestions on EQ for the Taylor ES2 system. A bit of poking around found a number of reasonable suggestions, one of which was to try the Pultec EQs. I pulled the low and mid-frequency Pultec EQs onto the track, fiddled with them a bit, and the sound was improved substantially. Yay!
EQ games followed with my vocal until I got it sounding better, as I picked up a bit of low end that had vanished into the ether. We'll call the EQ adjustments good for now.
I want to look at the reverb settings, because I'd thrown everything into a single reverb field, which is probably suboptimal. But that will be tomorrow's project, having saved today's work into a new session.
In the meantime, the Cardinals have swept the Cubs in today's doubleheader, so that will make up a bit for the doubleheader that the Cardinals dropped to the Royals a few days ago.
Now, we just need the Brewers to lose some games...
The first thing I realized was ..that I wasn't really happy with the sound of my guitar. That track was a direct in from the Taylor ES2 system and it was sounding thin. Pretty much everything that I'm using in terms of plugins at the moment is from Universal Audio and I had thrown the Hitsville EQ on this. It wasn't being a good choice.
When in doubt, try to learn from the experience of others. So I opened up the search engine and asked for suggestions on EQ for the Taylor ES2 system. A bit of poking around found a number of reasonable suggestions, one of which was to try the Pultec EQs. I pulled the low and mid-frequency Pultec EQs onto the track, fiddled with them a bit, and the sound was improved substantially. Yay!
EQ games followed with my vocal until I got it sounding better, as I picked up a bit of low end that had vanished into the ether. We'll call the EQ adjustments good for now.
I want to look at the reverb settings, because I'd thrown everything into a single reverb field, which is probably suboptimal. But that will be tomorrow's project, having saved today's work into a new session.
In the meantime, the Cardinals have swept the Cubs in today's doubleheader, so that will make up a bit for the doubleheader that the Cardinals dropped to the Royals a few days ago.
Now, we just need the Brewers to lose some games...