yewbic
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Originally posted by mudd
I would appreciate a decent tutorial on using this plugin, the one in the FL bible is useless
A Parametric EQ might look intimidating at first glance if you've never used one before.. but trust, its a very powerful type of EQ and fairly easy to use once you understand how it works.
some basics for ya.
refer to this image i posted in an earlier post (might have to log-in to see it):
On the main spectrum window on the left you see 7 what are called "tokens", these are Equalizer Bands which you can freely click and drag about to alter the frequencies of the audio on the mixer track in which that Plugin resides. If you have audio coming through on the mixer track you'll notice that the window will light up with shades of red. How this works, basically, is the brightest red that you will see (which is more towards an orange) represents frequencies that are around -10dB and above in loudness, and black represents frequencies that are around -60dB and below in loudness and everything in between you can just approximate yourself. In this image above, the peaks didnt go up into -10dB so thats why you cant see any orange.
So you'll notice that you can do it all with the mouse by dragging those tokens except that you cannot control the width of the curve, only the location in the spectrum (the frequency) and the amount of boost or cut (the decibels).
If you look to the right side of the plugin you'll notice Each band or "token" has its own slider, a frequency adjuster(labeled FREQ) at the bottom, a Bandwidth Adjuster(labeled BW) also at the bottom. The Bandwidth control labeled "BW" is the one you want to adjust to modify the width of the curve of any band, just drag it up or down, like everything else. You can easily tell which one is which by the unique color of each band/token.
you will also notice that at the top right, above each slider, there is also a "Filter Type Chooser"(each filter type is represented by a small icon of a unique shape which you can hover your mouse over, click and drag up or down to change and if you look at the top left of FL Studio while doing this it'll tell you the name of each filter type) and lastly there is a "Filter Slope" section which is represented by dots underneath the filter type icon (these are circled in this image) you can also click and drag up or down on these to change the depth of the slope. If i recall correctly its 12dB per octave at 1 dot and 48dB per octave at 4 dots. this is basically saying like.. "the more the dots, the steeper the curve to cut the frequencies and thus the more decibels of cut you will most likely see".
I believe when you use more than 1 dot on other filter types, such as a "peaking filter" (the one that looks like a cross in the icons, also the standard type) it acts as " the number of instances of the filter" so 4 dots on a peaking filter would be like 4 instances of that filter layered on top of each other i believe.
and if your wondering about which filter type to use.. just experiment. most people would say to use a high-shelf to boost highs.. but I've read in Bob Katz's book "mastering audio" that he has used a peaking filter at the very edge of 20k to get a different type of curve.. so just experiment man  just know that the high pass and low pass are good for cutting all frequencies either above or below a certain point depending on which you use.. makes sense "low pass - only lets the lows pass", "high pass- only lets the highs pass".
hope this shed some light, read the manual next time lol.
Last edited by yewbic on 05-03-2007 at 05:15 AM
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and the EQ in Edison is pretty amazing too.. lol I be making some crazy ass sine-wave shape curves on that.. haha.
