A Guide To Drum EQ - By Recordeo

A Guide To Drum EQ - By Recordeo


1. High Pass Filter: The engineer suggests adding a High Pass Filter to each and every mic.

2. Cuts vs Boosts: He said you'll get a lot more fidelity if you cut the unpleasant frequencies (freeqs) instead of boosting the parts you like.

Notes:

Even the bass drum can have a High Pass Filter but set it lower, around 30-50 Hz.

It's okay to boost here and there, but there should be more cutting than boosting. Listen for things bleeding through, or things conflicting with each other, or ringing.

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Seeds Conference?

Need to check this place out more.

https://seeds.churchonthemove.com/blog

Leave Your Mix Alone. It's Good Enough!

by Andy Chrisman

I travelled on the road in Christian music for 20 years and I can tell you that there are 2 types of performers: those that are constantly making an exaggerated motion to the sound engineer to change their mix and those that live with it and never let the audience know that their monitor mix wasn’t absolutely pristine...

Posted 15 JAN 2013 in Worship, Creative, Production: Audio 24 responses

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Microphones

All about Microphones.

SHORT recap of the article below. Microphones DO NOT grab sound and bring it in. There is no such thing as distance or range with a microphone. It only hears what is coming to it. Therefore the more noise you don't want to hear the closer it needs to be to the source.

HUGE difference in Omnidirectional v Unidirectional BECAUSE it's either deaf or not to the side noise.

http://www.proacousticsusa.com/blog/2011/12/the-myths-of-microphone-reach/#comment-9827

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