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Arktopolis

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Re: Confusion around EQ'ing terminology.
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2016, 06:51:17 am »
What Marrow is getting at, I think, is that the lesson from all this is that you shouldn't be taking "blanket advice", but instead understand what you're trying to achieve with said advice, and how the EQ gets you there. If we take the example of high-passing all kicks at 100Hz, if your kick's fundamental is at 100Hz, you most probably do NOT want to cut that frequency.
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Re: Confusion around EQ'ing terminology.
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2016, 04:09:03 pm »
Quote from: Marrow Machines on March 24, 2016, 03:51:26 am
Quote from: Khron1k on March 23, 2016, 11:47:30 pm
Quote from: Marrow Machines on March 23, 2016, 12:22:34 am
You gotta know your tools if you want to answer that question for yourself.

I don't see how the question is a matter of knowing you tools or not.

It's in fact the difference of how tools work that you need to understand. So UNDERSTANDING your tools is a big part of using your tools.

Other wise, if you knew exactly what your eq was doing, you wouldn't of asked the question in the first place, let alone the second question that you quoted me on.

I don't see how you can not think that it's not when it clearly is the problem.

Quote from: Khron1k on March 23, 2016, 12:00:50 am
For a concrete example, let's say someone gives me the blanket advice of high-pass all kick drums at 100 Hz and low-pass all kick drums at 2 kHz. Do they mean?
a) The passband is from 100-2000 Hz.
or
b) The stopband should be from 0-200 Hz and 2 kHz-infinite, which would put the passband closer to something like 200-1500 Hz.

Not that it is a huge deal, I just want to be sure I'm speaking the same language as other folks.

I still assert that my question is unrelated to my my knowledge(or lack thereof ) of my tools. As can be clearly seen from my question, nowhere do I ask how to configure my EQ to place a passband across a frequency range(quite a trivial task). The question stems solely from my pursuit to communicate effectively with others and to remove ambiguity.

Quote from: Arktopolis on March 24, 2016, 06:51:17 am
What Marrow is getting at, I think, is that the lesson from all this is that you shouldn't be taking "blanket advice", but instead understand what you're trying to achieve with said advice, and how the EQ gets you there. If we take the example of high-passing all kicks at 100Hz, if your kick's fundamental is at 100Hz, you most probably do NOT want to cut that frequency.

Thanks, Ark! Yeah, I totally understand what I should be trying to achieve with said advice. I'm just quite new to the producing community, so I just wanted to make sure I am speaking the same language as those in it.
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Re: Confusion around EQ'ing terminology.
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2016, 05:35:22 pm »
I get that, but if you understood how to speak about your tool, you wouldn't of asked the question in the first place.

My comments were not about configuration, but of pure understanding the tool that you use, other wise, see above.

and i'll stress that, understanding the tool would give you the ability to speak about the tool you are using, not all of the tools available but the tool that you use.

from there you can get information from other people to best use the tools that you are unfamiliar with.

This is an understanding problem as i see it. Unless some information is not being given.

I didn't know what actually defined the EQ placement, or what could be used, until this topic was started, so i thank you for that.


EDIT: I am not aiming to ruffle your feathers man, hopefully it's a perspective that's you may not be noticing. It's just hard to ignore my intuition and experience when things point in a certain direction.
« Last Edit: March 24, 2016, 05:37:47 pm by Marrow Machines »
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Re: Confusion around EQ'ing terminology.
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2016, 05:41:10 pm »
In summary: When people say "I have X filter/EQ at Y frequency", they are referring to the frequency that the band is set at. I think we're all good now!
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