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Cuttin' the Mids
Hey All,
Most of us use transducers or mags that exaggerate the mids a little bit and getting a good live sound seems to depend on cutting the right mid-freqs without hollowing out your tone. I'm curious, with your respective setups, which mid frequency you choose to cut, if any? I find with my LB6 and iBeam that I generally cut a little bit at 1khz and then maybe a little bit of 700-800hz at the amp or mixer. That seems to pull some of the honk out of the pickups without going full-Metallica "smiley face" EQ.
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for me it's different at every gig.
but a starting place for me is usually to do a hp roll off below 200 usually 125-150. then i usually boost a bit around 750 then i do the sweep thing with a sharp Q somewhere above that to find the offending Frequency . The high end is boosted to the point of sparkle then backed off a bit. All this is a big YMMV. as all equipment and guitars and rooms vary a lot. i use a sunrise mag pup that has adjustable pole pieces. i remove the high e and b string poles cranked the g string down adjusted the d,a,low e to where i like it. So it's kinda like an eq on the pup as well. Last edited by varmonter; 02-22-2018 at 10:01 AM. |
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If I cut only one band, it's usually somewhere around 600-800Hz with relatively wide Q. It could be reduced as much as 12dB but often 6dB is sufficient.
That said with some guitars (depending on a pickup and strings) I might go a bit higher, like 1-1.1kHz area. It depends whether a guitar seems to be muddy or with too much presence (and 'quack'). If I have two bands available on an EQ, that'll be around 500Hz one band, and the second closer to 1-1.2kHz. I'm not afraid to experiment with even more radical dB reduction. I was successful with cutting middle range by almost 24dB with narrower Q. |
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I don't have a narrow band parametric eq. After much frustration with the dreaded neck pickup 'quack' on my Taylor ES system (2012) I turned the midrange on my Fishman Loudbox Artist amp down as far as it will go. It's like magic and my 814 sounds great again when amplified. Maybe I shouldn't have sold my Platinum Pro preamp with the spiffy parametric midrange eq after all!
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Cuttin' the Mids
I think most folks shape their mid freq EQ in the range of 500 to 1000 Hz. If you count by 50 Hz increments, there are only 11 options to check with your parametric EQ. Most folks will check by boosting, to find the most annoying freq, and then cut. I think most pickups also need a bass boost, and 80Hz Low cut filter, and a presence boost around 4000 Hz.
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However, I am constantly boosting and running through my mid-range freq and debating which one to cut a little bit.
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i generally can't get away with the 80hz low cut
it's just too muddy/BoomyBut that's my rig. i need to cut it below 125. sometimes higher. could have to do with the cajon and another acoustic and bass in the band affecting my top. alone at low volume i can get it nice at those lower freq. but loud and in the band not so much. But everyone's rig and ear are different.. |
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**...the Cooltube is one of those exceptions in needing much bass boost as it has tons of low end and the onboard mid-freq-sweep cuts that work pretty good.
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