From the course: Advanced Drum Recording Session with Josh Freese

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Approaches to EQing the kick and snare

Approaches to EQing the kick and snare

From the course: Advanced Drum Recording Session with Josh Freese

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Approaches to EQing the kick and snare

- With the bass drum, there's almost always a problem around 300 hertz, between 300 and 600 hertz, so, you need to roll that area out, generally, you have to subtract EQ there. These are some of my favorite mic-frees in the world, Neve 1073s. They sound really good, they're, you know, they're all the superlatives, warm, punchy, et cetera. And so their low-mid frequency is 360 hertz. So, I roll a lot of that out. I'm not afraid of EQing stuff, because I'm committing to my sounds, as it goes into the DAW, and I'm making making myself happy on speakers that I know in a room that I know fairly well. So, I'm not afraid to dig in pretty hard on that EQ. On the snare drum, with a 57, you typically have to add top end. That's just the way it is, so, the 1073 has a 12k top shelf, so I'm dialing a little bit of that in., and a little bit of 3k, and on the bottom snare, some 220 hertz, and, a little bit of top end, little bit of 3k. I generally don't use filters when I record, because that can…

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