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Originally Posted by JonathanD  Howdy.
I play through acmes, and for the band I am recording with I turn off the mid driver all together. Now I love the sound but i can't for the life of me get an EQ that reproduces this. Any suggestions on how I can set up my Ampeg SVT4pro or edit the track to take away the same freq's I am taking out when I nix the mid driver. The closest I have gotten was to take the grafic EQ on the Ampeg and lower 2k and 5k all the way down 12db and 8k down 6db. This still just isnt right though.
Thanks, Jonathan |
That has been a challenge of recording engineers since the beginning. The recording process don't cover the same sound spectrum that a live room will. What people don't understand is it sounds like good recording gear that cover 20-20K hz sounds like it should cover it, it doesn't. The sound in a room is affected by frequencies you can't even hear, but they do bounce around the room affecting the frequecies that we do hear. That is why when recording you do so many overdubs of other instruments and doubling lines to fatten the sound up.
I would say get you normal amp sound in the studio, and mic the amp and run a DI both. That way you have amp for some grit, but the clean DI to work with for to add note definition as needed, also clean note to EQ along with the amp track. You may need to double the bass on keyboard, bass pedals, double bass, short scale bass with flatwounds something and mix underneight for fatness. Even what you play sometime a line that works live maybe not work recorded. Learning get a good sound recording is another skill to master.
