(1) Would it be possible to adjust EQ curve/bars and let it automatically be applied to a track that is playing? Meaning while I move the EQ curve/bars up and down continuously, I can hear the sound change of the playing track accordingly like a real EQ does. When the final piece is shared, people unlikely pay attention to tiny details. Need more time to play with it to optimize the tone. It see EQ can indeed improve the sax tone noticeably especially by pushing up frequencies around 2 KHz. I play with EQ and Distortion effects for a couple of days. It's very helpful to better understand what I can do to improve the sax tone, and even helpful to clarify what I should ask for It looks like a text book when I read it. Hits are usually a band and vocals! (Recording & mixing a whole band isn't really "easier", but it's not as difficult to get a "good sound" in the end.)Īnd if you are the Saxophone player, you are probably "overly-picky" about the sound, especially solo, and there's not much we can do about that! You get synergy and the band sounds better than the individual instruments. If you are recording a whole band or creating a mix, little imperfections and little details tend to get buried in the mix. Quiet instruments like an acoustic guitar, or solo acapella vocals and pianos with their wide dynamic range are particularly difficult. Solo instruments are notoriously difficult to record, although a Sax probably isn't the worst. I've used my (rather large) home stereo speakers for JD gigs, and man, they sure sound better in a large dance hall than in my living room! Or sometimes recordings will be made in a space with nice reverb. Professional recordings are usually done in "dead" (sound absorbing) studios where you don't get the bad-bedroom reflections or the good music-hall reflections, with artificial reverb usually added later. The Sax (or the recording of the Sax) is going to sound better in a music hall than in your bedroom or living room. The room makes a difference too, both for recording and playback. What's your "reference"? If you are comparing the recording to a live Sax, you need good-large monitors and a powerful amplifier to reproduce the realistic sound of almost any instrument. Audiophiles and audio pros use lots of descriptive terms that give an impression and seem to mean something, but it turns-out most of these words are not well defined. * If you're not using "technical language" like "boosted high frequencies", "noise", "distortion", "reverb", "echo", etc., descriptive words can mean different things to different people. (A Sax should have lots of harmonics & overtones already so I would expect EQ to be adequate.) Exciter/Enhancer effects can be helpful if you want to boost the high frequencies but there are no high frequencies for the equalizer to boost. This effect basically "evolved" from the Aphix Vocal Exciter. One of the effects is a Harmonic Enhancer which adds new high-frequency harmonics. There is also a Distortion effect with all kinds of options that can give "harshness" or "grit" to the sound. Without make-up gain, the same limiting won't do anything if you run it a 2nd time. Make-up gain is optional, but if you use make-up gain it will bring the level up and you can limit again with the same settings for more "effect". Then try limiting to -6dB or less (more negative). Normalize or Amplify (with the defaults) first to get a known "starting point". Clipping is distortion so it's something that you generally want to avoid, but guitar players usually like some distortion (or a lot of distortion) so it can be a desirable effect. You can also try the Limiter effect set to Hard Clip. (The Graphic EQ mode is easier to randomly-experiment with than the Draw Curves mode.) You can try just playing-around with the Equalizer effect. "Brighter" usually means boosted high frequencies* (boosted treble) and "dull" or "muffled" usually means a lack of high frequencies.
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