Great eq tutorial. Would you use this for your final eq for that singers next live performance? Could you talk about the following buttons ' type 1&2, and the other buttons alongside the "flat" selection. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
With digital consoles, saving settings has never been easier. So, there is absolutely nothing wrong with saving your EQ settings for singers who are there every week...AS LONG...as you don't tune out and stop listening with critical ears. Changing microphones, a singer having a cold, or a myriad of other reasons can change the tone of her voice. So, keep listening in spite of saved settings. There is a lot of speculation between the differences of Type 1 and Type 2. I believe the console defaults to Type 1. This may sound snobby, but I always preferred the subtle softness of the Type 2 EQ. If my memory serves me correctly, the waveforms were smoother (rounder) on Type 2, which might explain why Type felt more musical to me. Here's a better explanation from a forum: "Yamaha digital consoles (except PM1D) have a choice of EQ Types. They are just different ways of doing the maths that results in EQ. We recommend Type II as being more "musical" or "analogish" and in almost every case it is agreed it sounds better. So why have type I? Well Type II does exhibit some unexpected EQ responses when used for several very strong negative EQs, the type of multiple notch filtering used by monitor engineers or for bad problem solving. Type I is always predictable, but practicably not as nice!! So the choice is left to the user." -Tree Tordoff www.blue-room.org.uk/lofiversion/index.php/t10831.htm l I've been using Type II exclusively since an initial 2 minute headphone test years ago, but after reading that Type I is more predictable, especially in regards to cuts, I'm wondering if maybe I should start using that for speaker EQ. Looking at a transfer function, do you think you would get a smoother or more predictable response by using Type I since you had to worry less about close band interaction? I'm thinking Type I for the science/calibration side of the equation and Type II for the art/voodoo side. Does that make sense?"
