One Minute EQ Trick – Adding Air to Cymbals

Here is the final installment in the One Minute EQ Series, it’s about lifting up your drums a little bit.

To get your drums to the cymbals.

Simply take the overheads and boost from 10 kHz or so. Sometimes a slight shelving at 10 kHz does the trick, sometimes you have to go higher.

Simply take the overheads and boost from 10 kHz or so. Sometimes a slight shelving at 10 kHz does the trick, sometimes you have to go higher.Experiment with the frequency and the amount of boost to get your desired result.
Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Experiment with the frequency and the amount of boost to get your desired result.

10 Shortcuts to Greater EQ’ing – The One Minute EQ Trick Series

If you missed any of the previous One Minute EQ Tricks I’ve put them all together in one post where you can watch them all in a row.

Click Here to Watch and Read the Whole One Minute EQ Series for Free!

They only take 10 minutes to watch but you’ll get ten different ideas to try out the next time you’re struggling with EQ’ing your mixes.

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