ALESIS PEQ-450 - Manual (Page 33)

Chapter 4
PEQ-450 Reference Manual 33
Applications
This section is designed to get you started with the PEQ-450 by
giving some sample settings. These are merely suggested settings,
experiment and find your own once you begin to hear what the
PEQ-450 does to your sound.
In a way, it’s absurd to suggest EQ settings without knowing what
the source sounds like. EQ is a tool that’s used to change the timbre
of a sound, and it’s impossible to suggest an EQ setting that, for
example, will make all guitars sound better. So the goal of this
section is to give you some ideas for using EQ on your own tracks.
Rock Kick Drum
A rock and roll kick drum is usually EQed quite a bit to make it
sound the way it does on the radio. Usually an engineer will choose
to cut some of the woofy low-midrange, while boosting the high-end
"slap" and maybe even some of the lows. Here is a setting to try on a
close-miked kick drum:
• Band 1 set to Low Shelf, boost +3dB at 80Hz
• Band 2 set to cut –8dB at 500Hz, Q set at 12 o’clock
• Band 5 set to High Shelf, boost +4dB at 6kHz
You may also want to apply some compression and gating with the
Alesis CLX-440.
Vocal Air
A popular effect on vocals is to boost the high frequencies to add
"air" to the vocal. This is an especially popular effect on ballads sung
by R&B divas. This effect is achieved by boosting the high
frequencies.
• Band 1 set to High Shelf, boost +6dB at 15kHz