Audio Recording Techniques : How to Set a Graphic Equalizer

Setting a graphic equalizer can help the room equalization on big soft-mounted speakers in a recording studio. Find out how to adjust a graphic EQ with information from an independent recording engineer and producer in this free video on music recording.

Expert: Frank Green
Contact: www.digitalmaster.com
Bio: Frank Green, owner of DigitalMaster, moved to Nashville, Tenn., more than 24 years ago to further his music recording and production career.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

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• recording
• music
• audio
• software
• devices
• studio
• equipment

[numskidude]

NO THIS CLIP GIVES YOU AN INFORMATION ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO!!!!! YOU DON"T MESS WITH THE STUDIO MONITORS!!

[alexgowers]

wow that was super informative [/sarcasm] unless you have a set of high end studio monitors and are using calibration software no one should be altering the frequency response of their speakers they mix on. Keep everything flat flat flat flat flat.

[MoArtBeats]

@Inigobalboa Great advice thx very much ! But I've asked not about recording...only while Im mixing/composing in a DAW. The problem is when I'm mixing and if I add an eq (on the main bus) it helpes me to avoid some mixing tweaks.Later my composition sounds warmer on WINAMP player for example ...instead of muddy or to clean mix

[Inigobalboa]

@MoArtBeats

As most of this stuff, it is a matter of your taste, but my advice is:

1) Record flat (EQ on bypass) unless you're absolutely sure you don't need certain frequencies (i.e. recording a double bass, then you can knock down all frequencies above say 8 kHz).

3) Run a parametric if you have it through the whole range to identify frequencies you want to boost

2) Listen to it flat again and then decide what to cut down, rather than adding dBs to frequency bands.

[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????

[TheChaliWorld]

Can anyone help me Im trying to get the ground noise of from my monitors and spkrs and I dont know from where I should take it off I tried different cables, new cables and different extension cords and nothing how can I take this of??? would condenser help?

[803Jnice]

One is Hardware while the other is Software @BludStatic123 

[ditroiamusic]

These are great videos. Thank you.