EQ on snare and kick ?

[Lefay fan]

Hi Andy !
Would you be so kind and give us a few guidelines about EQuing the snare and kick, and the toms as well (in the vein of the drum sound on "Dead heart in a dead world") ? I've tried many EQ settings, but I'm never satisfied, so probably it would help to know a few guidelines and ideas from you.
Thanks a lot !

 

[jhrv]

bump

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

lol...

hey if you're a newbie don't make the same mistake I did by over-eqing everything. Good compression is at least as important as eq for drums, probably moreso.

 

[Verymetal]

Try Listening? Innovate don't imitate!

If people give you there 'settings' what good are they? Different kits, different rooms, different drummers!

Love x

 

[Pman]

Try Listening? Innovate don't imitate!

If people give you there 'settings' what good are they? Different kits, different rooms, different drummers!

Love x

The same settings obviously wont work effectively but at least we can get an idea of how this type of sound is achieved etc.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

at this thread being addressed to Andy. Search is your friend.

 

[MetalWorks]

I have been working on a kick EQ settings for some time. Every project I tend to modify it just a bit.

I recently switched to Pro Tools and started using Metric Halo.

I was pleasantly surprised when I found that Metric Halo has a preset under the Drum settings I believe called Kick 1 that was very much like the EQ settings I have been crafting for over a year. I actually just brought the low frequency boost down a bit but it was very close to my previous settings and sounds awesome.

But if you could at least download the demo for Metric Halo and check the Kick1 EQ setting it might show you a nice punchy kick sound for metal.

 

[Metaltastic]

Try Listening? Innovate don't imitate!

If people give you there 'settings' what good are they? Different kits, different rooms, different drummers!

Love x

That being said, however, I can sympathize with once not having a clue as to what the effects of boosting/cutting certain frequencies or compression were, and getting kinda peeved when people said stuff like that. Granted, the settings are pointless if you don't understand the reasoning for them, but there are still ballpark guidelines that are definitely pretty universal (e.g. boost the kick under 100Hz and from 4-6k, and scoop it from 400-800 Hz; boost the snare at around 1k for crack, etc.) The way I've been learning was from such sources as OzNimbus' "Acoustic Drums for metal: a guide" (see sticky on main page), as well as "Modern Recording Techniques" and "The Mixing Engineer's Handbook." Hope that helps!