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Post by Aural Relations on Feb 15, 2018 12:27:30 GMT
Hmm, what do you call the EQ when you only 'subtract' midrange? Daddy's drooping mid-section.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Feb 23, 2018 20:28:46 GMT
Hoff once claimed he is the only one who ever does which is just another in a long list of delusional quotes of his. I call it "reverse EQ". Subtract instead of add. First of all, it keeps the tape hiss way down because you are losing some of it when you subtract. It also "opens up" most harsh recordings (like the Orbison and Who hits). I took out a smidge in the upper mids on the Orbison and all of a sudden the rest of the spectrum just falls into place and it sounds natural and musical. The trick is to know when and how much to do this. I've never seen another mastering engineer do this (other than KG). They always just add EQ and load up the song with EQ'd tape hiss and bright, unnatural sound. Why, I do not know. It's a typical Hoofman quote; there is the self-glorification, the bashing of any other individual who has ever had the gall to operate an equalizer & finally the utter cluelessness he has come to show time and time again. Anyone with a tiny bit of knowledge about sound engineering can tell you this is complete horseshit. There is no right or wrong in either boosting or cutting certain frequency area's, just as long as it sounds good. It's been a while since I went to recording school, but this was exactly the way we were taught to use EQ. Better to subtract than add. Multiple instructors demonstrated this process in studio, mastering, even live sound. Funny though, I don't remember STeVE getting his due as the inventor of "reverse EQ".
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Feb 24, 2018 4:53:32 GMT
Hoff once claimed he is the only one who ever does which is just another in a long list of delusional quotes of his. It's a typical Hoofman quote; there is the self-glorification, the bashing of any other individual who has ever had the gall to operate an equalizer & finally the utter cluelessness he has come to show time and time again. Anyone with a tiny bit of knowledge about sound engineering can tell you this is complete horseshit. There is no right or wrong in either boosting or cutting certain frequency area's, just as long as it sounds good. It's been a while since I went to recording school, but this was exactly the way we were taught to use EQ. Better to subtract than add. Multiple instructors demonstrated this process in studio, mastering, even live sound. Funny though, I don't remember STeVE getting his due as the inventor of "reverse EQ". What an injustice! He's a goddamn pioneer and now he can't even get any work. He's a modern day Tesla. My heart aches.
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Post by Felonious Spunk on Feb 24, 2018 21:10:06 GMT
It's been a while since I went to recording school, but this was exactly the way we were taught to use EQ. Better to subtract than add. Multiple instructors demonstrated this process in studio, mastering, even live sound. Funny though, I don't remember STeVE getting his due as the inventor of "reverse EQ". What an injustice! He's a goddamn pioneer and now he can't even get any work. He's a modern day Tesla. My heart aches. I'll send a meat tray.
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Post by aggressivebeta on Feb 28, 2018 15:51:58 GMT
This is the same guy who 10 years ago had an “interview” up on his website where he was advocating sticking a good graphic EQ in your system to make everything sound neutral. But now that “interview” has magically disappeared off his website. He must be getting sponsored by parametric EQ manufacturers now.
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Post by aggressivebeta on Feb 28, 2018 15:56:09 GMT
Hoff once claimed he is the only one who ever does which is just another in a long list of delusional quotes of his. I call it "reverse EQ". Subtract instead of add. First of all, it keeps the tape hiss way down because you are losing some of it when you subtract. It also "opens up" most harsh recordings (like the Orbison and Who hits). I took out a smidge in the upper mids on the Orbison and all of a sudden the rest of the spectrum just falls into place and it sounds natural and musical. The trick is to know when and how much to do this. I've never seen another mastering engineer do this (other than KG). They always just add EQ and load up the song with EQ'd tape hiss and bright, unnatural sound. Why, I do not know. It's a typical Hoofman quote; there is the self-glorification, the bashing of any other individual who has ever had the gall to operate an equalizer & finally the utter cluelessness he has come to show time and time again. Anyone with a tiny bit of knowledge about sound engineering can tell you this is complete horseshit. There is no right or wrong in either boosting or cutting certain frequency area's, just as long as it sounds good. It is complete horseshit. I can boost 3 dB @ 1 kHz and then set the output gain to -4 dB. Look at that, I subtracted instead of added! It’s nothing but semantics
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