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Do you use Equalizer?
Raestloz:
--- Quote from: Scotty on October 31, 2010, 05:19:05 pm ---Bass can only sound horrid if the music you're playing is low quality....or if you're listening to it MUCH too loudly.
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I listen to Shinku with 50% WMP volume, 100% Windows Master Volume, and 20% volume on my 2:1 speaker (pretty mild, actually) for 1 hour and a half straight. Without Bass Boost I find the "s" to be hurting my ear :D
Don't bass kinda obscure the vocals (vocal is treble, right? Or is it? I am under the impression treble = vocal)?
I tried vocal boost the other day. The voice is awesome (so freaking clear) but then I miss the BGM and switched back to normal XD
Cael K.:
--- Quote from: Raestloz on November 03, 2010, 07:10:02 pm ---Don't bass kinda obscure the vocals (vocal is treble, right? Or is it? I am under the impression treble = vocal)?
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Vocal is mainly mid-range... but you should look here since this guy looks like he knows what he's talking about. He actually recommends toning it down for more vocal clarity.
http://www.recordingeq.com/EQ/req0400/OctaveEQ.htm
I'll have to give this stuff a whirl, I'm glad I found it.
For a bit of extra information, most singers and musicians know A-440 (a 440Hz sound wave). Adding octaves will boost this to 880Hz (around the max for really good sopranos) and 1760Hz, taking away octaves will lower it to 220 and 110 (in the middle of what most bass singers can produce).
However, whenever a singer makes an ear-piercing S, that's in the high range (according to the above, it's around 7kHz). Singers, don't sit too long on this sound. Please.
Raestloz:
--- Quote from: Cael K. on November 04, 2010, 08:52:20 am ---Vocal is mainly mid-range... but you should look here since this guy looks like he knows what he's talking about. He actually recommends toning it down for more vocal clarity.
http://www.recordingeq.com/EQ/req0400/OctaveEQ.htm
I'll have to give this stuff a whirl, I'm glad I found it.
For a bit of extra information, most singers and musicians know A-440 (a 440Hz sound wave). Adding octaves will boost this to 880Hz (around the max for really good sopranos) and 1760Hz, taking away octaves will lower it to 220 and 110 (in the middle of what most bass singers can produce).
However, whenever a singer makes an ear-piercing S, that's in the high range (according to the above, it's around 7kHz). Singers, don't sit too long on this sound. Please.
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That's a good read, so damn good I can't really follow him (too scientific for my casual brain), but he certainly knows what he's talking typing about
I guess it means my volume is way too loud, or maybe it's my ear
Cael K.:
Just looking around right now, I found a more friendly site.
http://recording.songstuff.com/article/eq_frequencies
Simple and straight to the point. From what I gather, Lows are around 250Hz and under, Mid-Lows are up to around 500, Mids go to 2k, High-Mids seem to stop at around 6k, and Highs are anything above. When he says you can add warmth to your vocals by boosting 200-400Hz, just kick up the Mid-Lows.
Of course, as with anything, it requires a bit of self-experimentation.
altuixde:
--- Quote from: Cael K. on November 04, 2010, 08:52:20 am ---However, whenever a singer makes an ear-piercing S, that's in the high range (according to the above, it's around 7kHz). Singers, don't sit too long on this sound. Please.
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Have you guys ever tried to find which singers have especially soft esses? I think that Ritsuko has very little sibilance when she makes the S sound (just listen to the songs and talk tracks on Master Artist 10). For tracks with lots of sibilance, however, a multiband compressor can really help in de-essing the sound (an actual de-esser plugin would probably help as well, but I don't have one of those). A multiband compressor will attenuate the volume of the high frequencies (and also the other frequencies) when they get louder than a certain threshold. I know that Macs have a multiband compressor built into the operating system; you can access it with apps like Vox, Audio Hijack Pro or one of the developer tools called AU Lab. Here's the configuration I use:
Note that the graph is currently showing band 4, which is where all the sibilance is.
Edit: A Google search for "multiband compressor" "de ess" will yield some instructions on how to use a multiband compressor as a de-esser. After doing this research, I have changed my de-essing settings, so some of the information in this post is old.
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