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- All Things Being EQ-ual, pt.3July 27
- Welcome to the long-awaited third (and final) installment of All Things Being EQ-ual, a series of articles on equalization that started back in April 1998. This final article, a titanic, tussling tête á tête of software EQ programs for the PC, was supposed to appear in the June issue. It didn’t. I won’t go [...]
- All Things Being EQ-ual, pt.2July 27
- Part Two: Whatchoo Talkin’ ‘Bout, Lionel? Welcome back! As you will recall, in Part 1 of this article, I introduced this discussion of EQ on a mainly conceptual level, and gave an example of the most common role of EQ in modern pop recording — as a tool to separate timbres across the frequency spectrum in [...]
- All Things Being EQ-ual, pt.1July 27
- Part 1: eQs and As As the competent and conscientious recording engineer that you surely are, you’ve taken great care to record your (or your client’s) latest opus. You’ve gotten your greasy little fingers on some mics and placed them more or less in the general vicinity of the instruments being played. You’ve [...]
- Adventures in MasteringJuly 27
- Adventures in Mastering It’s not how loud you make it, it’s how you make it loud By Craig Anderton Mastering is about creating the finest possible showcase for an artist’s tracks. Usually this means trying to maintain state-of-the-art quality and transparency. But with some tracks, the “finest possible showcase” may have different priorities. Take [...]
- EQ 101: Information on EqualizersJuly 27
- There are very few absolute “Rights and Wrongs” when it comes to EQ. Basically, if it sounds good to you, it’s right. There are some generally accepted thoughts on the matter though, so we’ll go over some of them as starting points. One generally accepted thought is that most vocal mics are very midrange heavy. [...]