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EQ workflow example 3: The "telephone" effect

EQ workflow example 3: The "telephone" effect - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools

EQ workflow example 3: The "telephone" effect

While it may be a bit overused this point, the telephone effect is a perfect example of creatively using EQ to fit something in a mix and go for a specific strong aesthetic statement. You see a telephone is a bandwidth limited audio system. Meaning that it limits the frequencies it carries to reduce the load on the system. So, less frequency range equals less information to be carried. So, to achieve this with an EQ, we can simply use our High and Low Pass filters, effectively creating what we call Band-pass Filter to limit the frequency range of the track. So, let me just show you a quick example. I'll do it right one the lead vocal and I'm going to up to the EQ 7-Band and I'm going to use the 7-Band because it's going to give me the High Pass Filter and the Low Pass Filter along with some parametric filters that I can use to create some resonance. Let me just reset this to the factory default and I'll put in pretty aggressive High Pass and the Low Pass Filter and what I'm doing is…

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