How I set my graphic EQ.

[DoktorCreepy]

excellent instruction, thank you

[DJGURRELA]

thats a bomb ring

[2011amigo]

can u make a video how to connect a graphic equalizer please because i got dj system connect nd it sounds bad so i need to attach a grapic equalizer so it could sound better

[JustOchi]

Thanks I really needed this. I be sure to send you a shout out when I'm on stage getting that grammy. lol Hey gotta dream big. Very informative.

[dolblaflare]

Maybe I can help what kind of setup do you have ?

[MrCemi2525]

Ok I got this,,thanks!

[acrock21]

so you need your mixer to be at 0 on the bass mid and treble ? also can you show how to hook your eq graphic up ?

[TheToddy30]

What song is that you are testing the EQ with? It sounds like a great track to set up an EQ to.

[kevinoo5]

Thx for the video. Very helpful.

[tallalziad]

how many watts per speaker do i need if i have the yamaha m-2 which put out 650 watts. and it had input for 4 speakers

[tallalziad]

how can i setup my sansui parametric equalizer p-1 to my yamaha natural sound amplifier m-2?

[Mikkel5700]

just what i was lk for nice work ;)

[alexgowers]

disco smile woop!

[mikieson]

not a horrible video..but..would be a tad nicer if the video was more clear making the eq a little more visible..AND its basically how Ive been doing my eqs since I was like 15..:) tks

[fatso330]

Do you do the same with a powered mixer with a EQ built in?

ALOHA

[jmvmain]

@fatso330 no.

[vinichirsch]

question.

Do you set the equalizer differently on different songs or just different rooms and speakers?

Like, If I play all house during a set will the equalizer only need to be set once?

[jmvmain]

@vinichirsch graphic equalizers are supposed to be the last EQ before the output to speakers. Everything that is sent through them should be EQ'd first.

[lavyheed]

@vinichirsch its mainly for the room m8

[P1001AT2]

About graphics do never do a smilie face you should tune it to the room or the speaker

[pitudo69]

Hahahaha buy an RTA, New DBX Driverack PX have an RTA built in WORKS GREAT! Your tutorial is missleading, Chances are, you do not have any Mics otherways your aproach would come down in flames. Good effort though.

[DjTinDaLL]

@pitudo69 Hahahahaha get a life

[nhoodfan]

0:36.... is, failure to communicate, some men you just can't reach.......

[lastsectionband]

thanks ..is it better to have many equalizers when you backup live band??

[SCHULTZEH]

wow even I understood that demo.. well done.. One question , would you change the EQ settings for every recording or just when you change room,amp speaker combonations?

[giovagb07]

found the song! it's Stupidisco by Junior Jack (check the video... it's hot)

[giovagb07]

Name of the song please

[kevinromerdal]

@giovagb07 Stupidisco - Junior Jack

[Polinio09]

whats the song?

[MoArtBeats]

Im confused..pls someone help me...

when I've started to make some music I was doing it through an old system with a 5 band eq - and I had "that sound"

..later I've bought me studio monitors and I've stopped composing with my old stereo tower - without eq (boosts on some freq's)

now question is...

during mixing and composing I should monitor my sounds with or without an equalizer - for example - smiley curve - to get a "picture" of my mixes

shoud I do it LINEAR without an eq????

[TheZombieRitual]

Well explained.

[EmpireLS56KW]

Clipping is the audio term to overloading and generating distortion that will eventually destroy the amp or amp and speakers or just the speakers.

Also you need a separate RTA like Art or dod what ever many manufactures make one and without that your blind as bat! The microphone is patched into the RTA and acts like an ear well close. Boasting the EQ blind is not something I would do. RTA! Real Time Analyzer.

[EmpireLS56KW]

Use pink noise wideband or full spectrum and adjust the peaks down or within (green) if I an remember seeing a dod RTA many years ago. Err yuck the last test sounded like she was singing though a pair of dirty 10 week socks! Muffled! LOL

[slimpickinzz]

good stuff

[Pok3rF4ce]

Great tutorial! Very good explanation and great tutorial!

[stevenmcnair1897]

What is very important to do Is Go out into the room and listen with your EQ flat. In the center of the room you can best hear what frequencies the room is resonating. Come back, and make changes. If you are a DJ and not worried about mics feeding back, the purpose of the EQ should be Only to enhance your sound or dip trouble frequencies the room is acting on, making your sound more boxy or muffled then normal. Using an Eq with a band full of microphones is another story.

[rrmmt23]

thanks a ton for this video you put together. you my friend are an excellent teacher. cheers!

[GBiv78]

Watching your amp for clipping is the most important part of speaker protection. An under-powered amp which is clipping will stuff your speakers faster than an over-powered amp driving them a bit too hard.

[theminijimi]

Mate your a legend.. your the first guy i've found that actually explains how to set it up, not just what one is.. Thanks loads!! =]

[snakeyboizz]

i've got a technics graphic equalizer sh-65 and a sony multi channel av receiver str dg500 and a a pair of bang and olufsons and tannoys and if i set the equalizer it will sound good for certain genre's of songs well better than the amp on its but its so annoying if your listening to different genres of songs and you've got to change it lol

[kyubisjinjuriki]

actually i appreciate what he wants to say ...

and i really gets what he was talking about ...

this vid is best for begginer like me ...

[semiLivedj]

but shouldnt the original mix of the song be pretty much eq-ed and you just adjust for the room?Like a dead room you just excite it some and a bouncy room you back it off a little.then with no people back it off then when there is alot of people you excite it a little.i really dont think the smiley face is the way to go,just ends up that way sometimes.

[JDHBand]

love our churches PV eq with fls. can raise your signal well above norm during set-up and identify your potential feedback problems. just drop the eq a hair on those freq. and you have much less chance of feedback problems when going live. i still have tons to learn.

[KJEboys]

So you're saying the EQ on the mixer should be at 0...and only to adjust the graphic EQ?

[garrick2007]

I think thats what he means, 0 meaning in the middle usually

[sinner24]

he means that all the eq's on ur mixer should be in the middle like default settings

[JDHBand]

does tht make total sense? i would say that is a starting point, but in my case we have an acoustic guitar that has horrible mids. I want to pull that range down in the mixer because I don't need/want that drastic an adjustment on for all channels. at least that's my limited real world experience... though even on the equalizer mids are still were I have to fight feedback in a acoustically unfriendly room, of course.

[Mario8672]

What's the name of this track?

[SoundSystemDesigner]

This is a good ear-based approach to "sweetening EQ" as opposed to "room EQ". One should never use this approach to equalize a room. I wouldnt recommend this approach on your house EQ at church as you will have many varied sources. As he mentioned, his approach would only be relevant for one particular source. An RTA or FFT measurement system is needed to properly EQ a room. Once the room anomalies have been fixed with proper room EQ, then your mixer EQ can sweeten the individual sources.

[HexDemon666]

One point I'd like to make. He mentions making sure you can't blow your speaker with your amp, meaning you should have an amp weaker than your speakers. This is not true. If your amp isn't powerful enough, it starts clipping and you get distortion at higher volumes which ruins speakers. You're better off with an amp with some headroom. Just use it responsibly and with intelligence and you'll never blow your speakers.

[FreezEntertainment]

ur right. most manufactures recommend an amp that puts out AT LEAST as much as the peak power handling of the speaker in order for the x-overs to work properly and filter out all the excess frequencies. most good speaker cabs have some sort of protection circuit that can take care of the extra power or the drivers them self can handle the extra power

[pitudo69]

you are so missleadin buddy, smily face; lol. get yourself a DBX PA and you learn a lot faster to pink a room..

[taliwhacker]

yea and were all just rolling in the cash

[Polinio09]

wats de song called?

[Ozz3AK]

that was useful mate. cheers

[kcutz]

a nice addition to this vid would be setting up your main board in the studio. running thru things like bus's and efx sends rec. 2nd returns pre's/ posts etc..

[Rheims27]

Cheers ears :D

[killada]

how to wire a Equalizer to my amp and mixer?

[zappafile]

Simplest way is to patch leads out of your mixers Left and Right outputs IN to the L/R inputs on EQ. Then out of L/R outputs on EQ to L/R inputs on Amp. This is an "in line" method. Easy eh. Hope that makes sense to you.

[themarkfive]

Yo Bro, Thank you so much for the outstanding trainnig session. I got more from this little segment than reading tons of books. I just wish you would have shown how to install an EQ. Im trying to get where alot of you cats are at!! :)

[snowball111690]

This is really cool. Thanks brother. You really helped me out here. GO GRAFIC EQUALIZERS!!

[snowball111690]

GRAPHIC* (stupid me)

[DMMcGregor]

Great vid mate, thanks.

[CrazyJimProof91]

this has been a great help for me...thx!

p.s. he sounds like a soccer commentator...lol..=]

[snapascrew]

is this how i would do it if i buy a graphic eq for my guitar amp?

[RocketRacer]

those EQs are more for tone shaping than for actual equalization, so with that, you can just do whatever sounds good with it.

[lighttech258852]

do you take the "sliders" all the way down?

[cobra5813]

how does the smiley face metaphor work? does that mean it's high on treble and bass and low on mid?

the way it's described, it sounds like it's two smiley faces???

thanks!

[zhaojianhu]

Very good, give me a lot.

[pootooyouloo]

then you can use an eq for removing feadback , you know that stuff you get when people use microphones and sing or play musical instraments , ahhhh , oww my god then he mentiond smiely faces , noooooooo roddny , the Hi and Lo eq controls will give you the efect of a smily face if thats what you wanted , humm,

[pootooyouloo]

Hay thats not a mans EQ its only got 15 bands, I think you realy want a drive rack for flatning the room sound , you plug the sensor mic in and play some noise and it goes , ow theirs a peek or a trough and sorts it ,

[games2x]

thank you..

[Vampiricgargoyle]

Holy shit thank you! This guy has been more helpful then the "pros" at Guitar Center. Simply thank you! Cheers mate

[raymondleeleggs]

I like the song. I have a tendancy to bass boost but at high volume the woofers distort.

[Kbron2000]

How in hell did I missed this great video,Thanks 4ur help

[snapascrew]

man if the eq is bigger then a 7 band, i suck

[Underview]

Good video bro.

[CjTheDj2]

i usely set mine in like a wave shape lol.

could we have a viedo on how to set martin desrotys dmx pins

[groovindj]

Always far better to start with all EQ bands flat, then listen and CUT any that stand out. Boosting is asking for trouble - unless you've got a compressor after the graphic equaliser.

[Shemxl]

graphic EQ is def not for idiots. I've seen it a LOT of times, also in bigger clubs, where the DJ had absolutely no idea about equalization and they just pumped the highs and lows up, cut the mid and the sound was just horrible. For gods sake, it's about sharpening all the frequencies, make the crowd hear the whole spectrum of sounds and not just noise.

[BboyElectrix]

I feel you there..

[endesheh]

Great great video!

[JesusIsMyHomeDogg]

Excellent video!! But I think graphic equalizers are only necessary in permanent sound installments or concert systems where you can use a spectrum analyzer to improve the sound because in a mobile DJ environment you will probably be using cd's and mp3's that have been digitally mastered on multi million dollar recording systems and you just end up screwing up the sound. So the mixer equalizers should suffice.

Any objections?

Chris

[riothero313]

good tips. one thing to remember is to make sure you do a mic check when you are doing your equalization. You don't want nasty feedback from boosting your vocal range during a live set.

[ow201]

Nice little video. You also have to remember feedback when setting your eq. If you are doing alot of mic work you want to try hold back from turning the frequencies that feedback up to high. We use EQs in large rigs to ring out the system to reduce feedback as well as making the sound sound better.

[DJLEE12345]

great vid i now how 2 set my eq now thanx

[genezix]

I've heard EQ's should never be used to add more of a frequency but just to cut down the frequencies that resonate in the room which makes them seem too loud.

[BLOOD1MONEY]

do a crossover video!!!

[JesusIsMyHomeDogg]

Yes!! crossover video please