Harmonic Equalisation

[moose209]

Hey boys and girls of this ultimate metal forum.

Harmonic equalisation - I'm working on a track where its gonna be real useful to use a full fat bottom end (am now waiting and expecting arse jokes!) It has the korn big slow chord changes in it but not the huge distorted guitars - so i want to employ the use of harmonic equalisation - and i don't mean getting my eager guitarist to squeel with various harmonics all over the track (much to his dissapointment!)

Does anyone know of a walkthrough example that can explain the theory and practice in a clear fashion - so i can employ this and have a degree of certainty that i ain't gonna blow up some poor geezers hi-fi!

ta in advance

Moose

 

[Gomez]

Hey boys and girls of this ultimate metal forum.

Harmonic equalisation - I'm working on a track where its gonna be real useful to use a full fat bottom end (am now waiting and expecting arse jokes!) It has the korn big slow chord changes in it but not the huge distorted guitars - so i want to employ the use of harmonic equalisation - and i don't mean getting my eager guitarist to squeel with various harmonics all over the track (much to his dissapointment!)

Does anyone know of a walkthrough example that can explain the theory and practice in a clear fashion - so i can employ this and have a degree of certainty that i ain't gonna blow up some poor geezers hi-fi!

ta in advance

Moose

Never heard of the term "harmonic Equalisation". I guess you're talking about psichoacoustic enhancers such as the waves Maxx bass. Or something like the Waves R-bass.

If you are worried about blowing up speakers, there's a number of things you could:

- Listen to your stuff on full range monitors.
- If you haven't got that, use a frequency analyzer.
- Compare you recoding to something like Sunn o))) (and btw has anyone here tried Sunn amps?)
- Listen with a Sub woofer.
- Take it to a decent mastering engineer, he/she'll tell you.


Anyway.... bear in mind, if you have too much bass, you won't be able to make your recording loud as hell, like modern music. (average Dynamic range on metal, pop, rock etc is 3dB these days - not my cuppa...)