Chop School Assignment 1 - The Results

[Macc]

its the ears, and the way they've been trained.

all about experience, theres no subsitute for it...

practice practice practice.

it's like anything - when you do it a lot you get more efficient. i am crap at numbers, i can't say 'that needs a cut at 850hz', it's always '700-900 or summink'. when i get to go to a mastering session with beau @ heathmans - who sits there mastering audio all day every day - he can pull numbers out the air.

he'll say 'needs a notch at 850 hz', i'll say 'well sweep down until i say stop', he does, and when i say stop it's 850hz. gobsmacking. i asked him about it, and he said the same thing; 'when you do something all day every day you learn all the shortcuts, all the quickest ways to do things, all the numbers'. :d

for me it starts with a gut feeling as it were;

press play
'there's something wrong with this, what is it?'
'sounds all nasal and also woolly'
'must be the nasal bit at 700 - 1k and the woolly region around 130-200hz ish then, have a shufty round there'
then have a fiddle and try and sing the offending 'notes', find it, cut it.

that's basically it.


then boost like a beatch with the best fat eq you have. like the soon to be mine uad neves