It’s also the sweet spot of the punch of most percussion instruments (excluding kick drums). If you're using a lot of lead synths, you will have a lot going on in this frequency range. High mids range from 1500Hz to approximately 4kHz. To avoid frequency clashes between these instruments, you'll need to thoroughly consider which sounds to boost and by how much.

This frequency range is responsible for the warmth and atmosphere of a sound, but there are a lot of instruments that occupy this space. Low mids range from 250Hz to approximately 1500Hz. A lot of bass may sound nice, but it can also completely overpower the rest of your mix. An appropriate amount of sub bass can give your track a boost in low-end power, but too much will make your low end sound muddy and undefined.īass ranges from 60Hz to approximately 250Hz. Sub bass ranges from 20Hz to approximately 60Hz. For this, we’ll divide this chapter into various sections. Now that you know what each button or parameter does, it’s time to dig deeper into how EQ should be used. A high Q setting – such as 20.0 – results in a narrow bandwidth and a smaller range of frequencies affected. A low Q setting – such as 0.83 – results in a wide bandwidth, which means it’s affecting a large range of frequencies. The Q parameter allows you to control the range of frequencies that you alter. Q, however, is a little less self-explanatory.

Whereas the ‘Frequency’ parameter allows you to set the frequency for each band, the ‘Gain/Slope’ parameter allows you to set either the slope of the filter (Bands 1 and 8) or the amount of gain (Bands 2-7). The first two, Frequency and Gain/Slope, speak for themselves. You are in full control of each band, as you can adjust several different parameters for each. This particular EQ consists of eight individual bands. But since you're still here, let us explain how EQ works by focusing on Logic’s Channel EQ, which closely resembles FL Studio’s built-in Parametric EQ (and the native EQs of other DAWs). If who’ve worked with a Parametric EQ before, you can freely to skip this part.

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