EQ - Useful tool, or evil abomination?
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- Should I use EQ? In this video, Mr. B discusses equalization, and some considerations for whether or not to use EQ. Stick around to the end of the video for viewer comments!
Anthony Beardslee is a Media Arts instructor at Northeast Community College in Norfolk, Nebraska. www.northeast.edu
Alan Parson's Art and Science of Sound Recording
www.artandscienceofsound.com
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proaudioeurope.com
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Ghostbusters - Columbia Pictures
Young Frankenstein - 20th Century Fox
2012 AES Convention - www.aes.org
Parametric Equalization, George Massenburg, retrieved from aes.org
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - EQ and the Puzzle Pieces
3:27 - Is EQ bad?
4:34 - EQ performance
4:54 - Time
5:56 - Viewer Comments
I mention Al Schmitt a number of times in this video. Sadly, Al passed away in April of 2021. His contribution to the audio engineering world cannot be overstated. Any engineer that you talk to will tell you that they learned something (if not everything) from Al. A sweet guy, a colossal talent, and a legend. Rest in peace, sir.
I follow more than 1.000 UA-camrs who talk about music because I am very interested in learning. Some are not so good, some are good, and a very few are very good....but you are very, very, very, very, very, very, super good. I just went to check all your other videos and was surprised to see you have very few videos and you have not uploaded any videos for months. "What a pity". I thought... I do not know your circumstances, but let me tell you that you are one of the most gifted persons I have met in the art of teaching. If you upload more videos I am sure you will soon get a million subscribers. You are the best. Keep it up. You are not only an expert .. you are informative and funny. You are gifted !!!!! Do more videos please !!!!! Thanks a lot.
Thank you!!! :)
Your videos are helping me a lot as a sound engineer student, i learn more in this videos than the school lol
Thanks for the content
That's because Mr. B is the man.
Seasoned tracking/mixing engineer here. The fact that we can never stop learning until we choose to do so is why I'm here. The other reason is because you make it much easier to watch. I'm sure you are super cool to work with. Great vids!
Thanks, man. I appreciate it!
Hey Mr. B - for what it's worth, I'm a 63 year old soon to be retired plumber that's just getting started in studio recording. My late start is somewhat offset by the financial security I've cultivated over my long career, allowing me to procure good quality instruments and gear that most younger folks can't at this stage of their lives. I've gathered enough where if my recordings suck I can't blame it on the gear or room acoustics. :-) Your videos "sink in" better than all the other You Tube channels I watch and believe me, I watch a lot of them. I would love to attend your college class but I'm just outside Vail, CO and it's just not practical. Please keep posting; it's the next best thing to being there!
Thanks, man. I appreciate it! And best of luck to you!
For the quality of your videos, they are pretty underrated. Although with time I definitely think you'll become more popular.
Literally one of the best educators on UA-cam, love the style of your videos. Highly underrated.
Dude, you're awesome. I hope you can continue to make these videos and spread the knowledge, it is much appreciated!
This is handsdown the best channel about these topics in youtube. Im binge watching everything i already know coz its that much fun. Bravo👏👏👏👏
Awesome, you always help us see the reality of audio processing in a very different way.
mr b!!! when you swore, I had to pause the video and write this. oh my LORD that's a STRONG opening minute!
Glad to see you're back making more videos. I missed you! :-)
Hi Mr.B.....its a great series of upload. Future of Stereo listening is separated as headphone listening and speaker listening. Numann has done great work towards binaural recording..but it may has some psycho acoustic is future of human listening Hi Fi.
Yes! I really appreciate your attitude, philosophy and knowledge. Thank you for putting out quality content, well recorded, edited, etc. people don’t know how much work this is. I’ve watched 4 videos and will keep going. Always learning even if “I know how to manage sound”! 🥂 🎉 Thank you again!
Excellent videos! Some great points, valuable information and great examples here. Top job 👌
Great videos, Mr. B! I even watch the ones with topics that are not of my interest because you always make me smile. Thanks for posting! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
I like your contents, your delivery is consistently entertaining yet very informative. Subscribed! 🔥
Love your videos, very funny and I'm always learning something new!
Im glad I found your channel, this is the second video I am watching,, I really appreciate your knowledge and the time you put in to make these videos!!! and the Humor is priceless!!!... you are awesome bro! 😀
Wonderful content there, I'm so pleased to learn with your presentation style.
Love your process AND the corny jokes. By golly. The generous tutorials yourself, Dan Worrell, Sylvia Massey, and Steve Albini have all posted have improved this middle-aged rock and classical recording enthusiast's game immensely. I am building a better understanding and practice of what I do, and having more fun to boot (not the old frat-house meaning of the word BOOT:). Thank you so much!
Thanks so much!
Every time I watch a video of yours I fell grateful that your channel exists and for having found it.
At first glance, your irreverent manner and the look(visual) of a serious guy semmed strange to me, nothing to do with age, because people can be cheerful and fun at any age. But in the second video I got used to it and started to like this contrast.
And yes, you deserve a lot more subscribers. I will try to help with this by recommending your channel in all videos about editing, mixing, mastering and music production on Brazilian channels.
A hug from Brazil, thank you for sharing your knowledge with such quality and in such an irreverent way.
Thanks, William!
Really great video!
Looking forward to a possible part 2? Engineers who never use compression :)
So well prepared. Thank you.
Very good, keep up the good work, bravo and most importantly thank you very much for your time and dedication to offer such great and quality content. 10/10
I know that studio. Glad to see you still have a sense of humor Mr. B
Yeeesssss, new video!! Mr. B Back in the studio ^^
Just found your channel, great stuff splattered with some good humour👍
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. I always enjoy your videos Mr. B!
Thanks, Jessica! :)
Hey, this was great! Your humor is solid. The banana. Nice. And, and... I learned something about reducing my use of EQ. Looking forward to the next video. Go for weekly!!! Subscribed!
Fascinating!
wise advises, much love and respect sir
Thanks, great video!👍
love the comments section now mr B! let me be your video editor please!!
igor!!!
You opened my mind, great humor too!
Audio in a Video about Audio!!!!!
Whomever said that they 'appreciate that the audio in this video about audio is great' is my new UA-cam Hero!
The percentage of videos within what I call the University of UA-cam, that property themselves to be about helping me improve my audio skills, yet themselves break every rule of Audio, specifically dialog intelligibility, is on par with the income and wealth distribution of this new guided age. And you Sir, are a One Percenter!
Videos that claim to be their about say 'Mic Technique' and are using the microphone in their iPhone, or 'Gain Staging, Compressing, and Limiting' and then the commercials kick in and blow my monitors out, or getting a vocal to 'Sit in the Mix' and then they play the track and you either A) can't hear the track at all over their constant talking or B) can't hear what the hell their trying to say because the track's way to load. Then they try to 'A/B or Bypass' an effect, and for some reason feel the need to blab between the A and the B, which is A/Erase from Memory/B.
Can you please do an Audio Video on how to properly do Audio Videos?
Then we can leave the link in the comment section of every other channel!
*purport not property lol
Great videos....
Braw stuff Sir. Thanks.
I love EQ. I mainly use it for notching out frequencies between instruments/vocals. Cleans everything up and leaves room for other stuff.
I dont have the budget or the mics that Al does, but the guy is a genius.
I have to admit, I use EQ quite a lot, too! :) I'm just not at Al's level yet!
You are awesome 😂👌🏽 Thanks for info
Welcome back!
Great comprehensible video. Mic placement and getting it right at the source goes a long way, not just in the studio.
Never lose the juvenile jokes!
I too suffer from time to time the anguish that is reverb remorse.
I was not disappointed
Curious about your thoughts on EQ on an instrument/amplifier in order to get the 'right' sound prior to even mic placement/recording.
I'm all for it!
Hi Mr.B, very good vid indeed. Thank you! And where can I find the aes 2012 convention footage?
Thanks for watching! It's on the AES website, but you have to be an AES member to access their video library
@@MrBinthestudio Thank you. :-)
They depend on the style of music you work with.
For example, if you work a lot with digital, you have to cut and boost things when you can not even choose a mic!
Good advice! I have a low budget, poor acoustics, poor equipment and no experience. What do you suggest?
i am just a beatmaker. but learned mpore than engeniers than people who actually showing you how to produce better ... subscribed and yes u deseve more subcribers
well that's if you have a lot of time to go through all those mics. Yeah I agree to record the best possible recording to have less issues later. However don't record with eq's and compressors on unless you have had experience with the rack units. But good video
I agree with you there. Time is not always a luxury that we have.
@@MrBinthestudio but there is something I wanna ask you though. I am small town sound engineer and have been recording for feyyears now. The clients that usually come and record at my studio usually just use 2 channels but I really wanna upgrade to handle bigger tracks. I wanna start by building my own rack and I hear my buddies talking all these pre amps. question is why do I need to get all this outboard gear if there are already plugins of the same gear and what real difference does it make if all the audio interfaces come with a built in pre amps?
A very good question. (you should check out my preamp video, if you haven't already.) In my opinion, the next logical step for you would be, like you suggested, to step up to an interface with 8 built-in preamps and see where that takes you. You always need to weigh the benefits of a big financial investment, and the reality is, most of the built-in preamps on today's interfaces are really good quality.
If you wanted to add an additional mic pre to give you some more choices, a tube mic pre would be a good addition to your rack. But you're right, there are plugins out there that can imitate the real thing pretty convincingly.
haha... such a great video
you got a sub bud
I tried to get mad at this video but I just couldn't..it's too good!
I've watched a lot of audio videos for a new job this year, there are a lot of good ones out there and a lot of bad ones but none are as funny AND informative as yours. Screw "serious" adulthood.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
one question and one suggestion: why did you take down your filmed journey as a PA sound engineer on the upper floor for this country / rock band,it was very truthful and i really enjoyed it at the time.especially the driving back,reminds me the old days. and if we are talking EQ here my suggestion is sell your YAMAHA Q2031 dual EQ it is one of the worst EQ's i've worked with at the time .and i really like vintage Graphics,Q1027 for example is completely another story,top notch(filter:).keep the vid's rolling & take care...
After I had uploaded that video, I found several things that I didn't like, so I took it down. But I appreciate that you enjoyed it. :)
About the Yamaha's - yes, I agree, they're horrible EQ's. That pile of gear for this video was just used as props for the video. Most of that gear in the shot is not being used.
Ah, yes. Non-EQ EQ. The best form of EQ.
The piano in the beginning sounds so nice and WIDE, is it haas effect?? or two pianos?
I hate to admit it, but that's a MIDI piano :)
@@MrBinthestudio any idea which one? It sounds amazing :)))
It is the "Mini Grand" instrument plugin, which is included with a Pro Tools software subscription. I have the model parameter set to Ballad, and the room is set to Hall.
@@MrBinthestudio Awesome!!!! thank you :)
@@artbluevibe6629
Just in case to be clear he's talking about the Mini Grand by Air Music and can be bought usually for like $20 on sale from PluginBoutique.
"one of the best audio recording guru...., John green of audio of audio...
Can you tell I'm a Vlogbrothers fan?? :)
@@MrBinthestudio ha ha ha, thanks for replied Mr. B, I'm your new fan from Indonesia.
Why not mention that if you are raising the high frequencies in an EQ, to add some sparkle to lets say an acoustic guitar, it will/can add noise as opposed to if the mic and it's placement, assuming it's low noise, already gives you those frequencies.
Mr. B, because of the varied outcome/product, does mic placement and mic choice, by its nature, become a form of eq. Proximity effect and what not... ? Or is the answer to my question a "DUHHHH" (facepalm) ....
That is a good question, and some people consider ANY choice that you make to potentially be a form of EQ... acoustics, mic choice, preamp, etc. But in this case, I am specifically talking about the use of an equalizer, whether on-board, out-board, or plugin.
That makes a lot of sense thinking like that. Even bending our ears is a form of self EQ.
In the case of which came first the chicken or the egg, I think EQ is the egg we fry versus the chicken in the studio we try to stitch together using good mics , mic placement, acoustics, etc. LMAO! Sorry but this video really made me laugh.
Update: I passed pharmacology :)
Love the videos!
Yay! I would hate to be responsible for someone's bad grades!
Very much like Steve Albini.
Just subscribed. Came for the info. Stayed for the 8-year-old shit jokes 👍🏼
OMG! LMAO!! This was an awesome video!
DON'T...SPX990...mics, bananas, Yoda.... I was LMAO!
like
comparing a badly placed sm58 to a better placed neumann is kinda funny...
What camera do you use to record with? Got that lo-fi straight to video self help vibe? is warm and fuzzy in a nostalgic (ironic?) way
honestly man, if you're not a millionaire, you should be :-)
used for evil, hehehe
I think the second un-eqed is too bright
I slightly disagree. When in a live setting, you have to use EQ. What if you have feedback? What if you don’t like carrying 50 mics, preamps, and compressors for every source with you to every event? I mean, I hope a sound guy doesn’t do that! Normally you have what stuff you need figured out before you do an event, but you have to remember acoustics are also different and can cause frequencies to be lost in the mix. You have to use ew for that. When tracking, you can get away with not using eq (you definitely should keep it minimal until you go into your DAW), but you still need it. I’d rather listen to sound that is more natural on the mic that I have than become an audio gear-head (so to speak) and take 50 years to figure out what a halfway decent sound is. That’s before mixing, compressing, and even a sound check and getting people’s in-ears figured out. There is so much more here and I think that the non-use of eq can cause more problems than solve them. Also, who uses a SM-58 on a guitar? Wouldn’t you want it directly in the pre from the pickup?
He doesn't use EQ boost. That's what he means. EQ cuts are necessary in every good mix.