On 10/5/2015 5:46 AM, Angus Kerr wrote:
The other day, I was chatting to a live sound engineer who was mixing
a show at a local school. Oklahoma, with Orchestra, which I was
playing violin in. I was asking how they used EQ. Do you listen and
then adjust the EQ? Answer, no, we know what frequencies are problems
on certain instruments and what needed to be cut / boosted. My jaw
dropped. But they were serious. There is a chart of frequencies and
by all accounts, people mix to those charts.
See how easy it is? Anyone can be a live sound engineer.
There's a certain amount of truth, though, to having some experience
with typical problems in a given situation and venue. There are some EQ
settings that are a pretty safe bet for starters, particularly if
there's no sound check. You figure that no matter where you put the
microphone, the guitar player will point the sound hole of his guitar
directly at it. You figure that if it's not an experienced rock singer
and the mic is an SM58, you'll probably need a little dip at around 2.5
kHz. You can roll off the high end of a kick drum mic or bass DI. Stuff
like that.
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