Alesis DEQ230D User Manual download pdf (Page 57)

4 Applications

This section is designed to get you started with the DEQ230 by

giving some sample settings. These are merely suggested settings;

experiment and find your own once you begin to hear what the

DEQ230 does to your sound.

In a way, it’s absurd to suggest EQ settings without knowing what

the source sounds like. EQ is a tool that’s used to change the

timbre of a sound, and it’s impossible to suggest an EQ setting

that, for example, will make all guitars sound better. So the goal of

this section is to give you some ideas for using EQ on your own

tracks.

Rock Kick Drum

A rock and roll kick drum is usually EQ’d quite a bit to make it

sound the way it does on the radio. Usually an engineer will choose

to cut some of the woofy low-midrange, while boosting the high-

end "slap" and maybe even some of the lows. Here is a setting to

try on a close-miked kick drum:

• Select all frequencies below 80Hz and boost 3dB

• Cut 500Hz by 8dB

• Boost all frequencies above 5kHz by 4dB

You may also want to apply some compression and gating with the

Alesis CLX-440.

Vocal Air

A popular effect on vocals is to boost the high frequencies to add

"air" to the vocal. This is an especially popular effect on ballads

sung by R&B divas. This effect is achieved by boosting the high

frequencies:

• Boost 16 kHz by 6dB

• Boost 20 kHz by 6dB

Tape Hiss Removal

If a recording has a lot of tape hiss, such as one transferred from

cassette, you can usually get rid of it by dropping the high

frequencies a bit:

• Select all frequencies from 8kHz up and cut them by 6dB

Adjust the gain of different bands to compromise between

keeping the high end of the recording and eliminating tape hiss.

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