On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 02:20:49AM -0400, Rob wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 01:34, Chaz Kiser wrote: > > I've recorded an upright bass track that I'm really fond of > > but it sounds a tad too "booming". > > What kind of tips could anybody give me into making it sound a > > bit more "punchy" but without losing its bass quality? > > Look in the spectrum for a spike at the low end and flatten it a > little with EQ? That's the first thing I'd try. You can do a > lot with a notch (or a band-pass, for that matter) filter. Right. The easiest way to find the offensive frequencies is to make the sound worse before you make it better. I'd take a parametric EQ, set it to slightly *boost* the center frequency and a fairly broad slope. Sweep it until you find the frequency setting that makes the sound as bad as possible :-) Narrow the slope a bit and adjust the frequency again. Repeat until you think you've found exactly the most offensive zone. Then change the boost into a cut. Then leave the track alone for a while and listen to something else. You've probably got conditioned to hearing the artificially boosted sound so *anything* will sound better. When you come back to it, compare the EQ'd signal to the un-EQ'd signal to verify that you actually did some good. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com
