If you are mixing the Sunday morning worship service and you need to dampen the toms, but turn-up your female backup vocals, what do you do?
Do you fade your toms down and your female backup vocals up? Or does your EQ simply need adjusting?
The frequency chart below, shared on Google+ by Tim Adams, is a great resource to print out and keep near your church soundboard:
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Not only does this help you find the right frequency ranges, but helps visualize how the dynamic sound spectrum tangles with each other. The more you understand how sound behaves, the better you become at sculpting it — the difference between a “sound guy” and a “sound designer.”
Is this chart helpful?
[via Tim Adams]
Bevan Kay says
I found this to be a bit more helpful for a beginner, it also shows what frequencies do what to certain instruments when mixing. Is more relevant to a recording situation but still applies to live. Of course it isn’t perfect but gives you somewhere to start.
http://tijmerd.x-plose.be/HR/EQcheatsheet.pdf
Eric Dye says
Sweet link resource! Thank you, Bevan. 🙂
Ikechi Awazie says
Nice post. A question though; What does the red, yellow and black represent.
Eric Dye says
Hmmm…that is a REALLY good question.