6 New Ableton Tutorials: 15 Free EQ8 Presets:

[JoshuaCasper]

Posted 6 New Ableton Tutorials, Come Check them Out!

Everything can now be found at :: http://www.joshuacasper.com

New Tutorials:

• Ableton Tutorial: Tips on Beginning a Remix (Where to Start)
  Ableton Tutorial: Finding the BPM of a Track/Loop with Ableton
  Ableton Tutorial: 15 Pro EQ8 Presets: plus EQ8 Secrets

Quick Tip Series Addition:

• Ableton Very Quick Tip e.26 - Show Preset Name
  Ableton Very Quick Tip e.27 - Where to put VST .dll Files
  Ableton Very Quick Tip e.28 - Finding Missing Files

Everything can now be found at :: http://www.joshuacasper.com

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[Brothulhu]

EQ presets? O.o

[JoshuaCasper]

yeah man... lots of em!

[Barka]

EQ presets? i mean, how? and why? EQ is totally source material dependent!

cheers for the contribution tho!

[VirtualMark]

EQ PRESETS!!! OMG CHRISTMAS HAS COME EARLY!

[JoshuaCasper]

These are a place to start for certain things. Like highlighting female vocals. Obviously every track needs something different, but not everyone knows where to start I pulled these from iZotope Ozone, so I am sure people can learn something from analyzing them

[Untitle]

Yeah, when you are in a middle of a producing something, and don't want to spare your time for tweaking the EQ, a sort of a standard drum, vocal, keys, preset will really fasten up your workflow, and wont let you lose the musical idea.

[Hostile Invasion]

Yeah, when you are in a middle of a producing something, and don't want to spare your time for tweaking the EQ, a sort of a standard drum, vocal, keys, preset will really fasten up your workflow, and wont let you lose the musical idea.

Jeez man, how long does it take for you to EQ something?

[Brothulhu]

Yeah, when you are in a middle of a producing something, and don't want to spare your time for tweaking the EQ, a sort of a standard drum, vocal, keys, preset will really fasten up your workflow, and wont let you lose the musical idea.

Leave it till the mix down or if it really bothers you EQ it yourself? If something sounds so bad that you can't use stand hearing it without EQ maybe it isn't the right sound for the track

[Gravehill]

This is the type of stuff that makes people process things simply because they think they are supposed to. EQ presets are really incredibly useless (no offense OP, just my opinion)

[JoshuaCasper]

I respectfully disagree. I am self taught and have learned a great deal from presets, for a VSTi or a VST. Seeing how a pro EQs his pads, for instance, helps... I also find have stick presets ready very useful. A for instance. When making heavy bass music I always EQ my sub more or less the same. It is so much easier dragging and dropping my sub EQ preset than spending time re-inputting the parameters. Repetition slows my creativity. However, if you don't want them, don't get them, but it shouldn't matter what other people do

[Gravehill]

I respectfully disagree. I am self taught and have learned a great deal from presets, for a VSTi or a VST. Seeing how a pro EQs his pads, for instance, helps... I also find have stick presets ready very useful. A for instance. When making heavy bass music I always EQ my sub more or less the same. It is so much easier dragging and dropping my sub EQ preset than spending time re-inputting the parameters. Repetition slows my creativity. However, if you don't want them, don't get them, but it shouldn't matter what other people do

Yeah man I respect you for trying to help but it kind of does matter what other people do - if a beginner comes across this and downloads them it is going to do them a lot more harm than good. Its cool if you have a firm understanding of what you are doing and you want to use presets as a starting point especially for creative effects, but I think if you are using presets for your EQing 9 times out of 10 you are going to be doing more damage than good. You shouldnt be spending time re-inputting the paramaters because the parameters should be different almost every time. Seeing how a pro EQs a pad is completely useless unless he is sitting there explaining why he did what he did


EDIT: I just checked the link and noticed you actually post videos explaining what you're doing, so I take back most of what I said XD

[JoshuaCasper]

Nice one! Thanks!

[Brothulhu]

I respectfully disagree. I am self taught and have learned a great deal from presets, for a VSTi or a VST. Seeing how a pro EQs his pads, for instance, helps... I also find have stick presets ready very useful. A for instance. When making heavy bass music I always EQ my sub more or less the same. It is so much easier dragging and dropping my sub EQ preset than spending time re-inputting the parameters. Repetition slows my creativity. However, if you don't want them, don't get them, but it shouldn't matter what other people do

Imo unless you are using the exact same pad and want it to fit in with the exact same sounds it's useless to see how "pro" EQs a pad and if anything will probably get you into a bad habit of EQing pads that way when your pad requires a different EQ curve.

And also EQing a sub is completely different as the only EQing a sub could ever need is 1 simple low pass filter

just my 2p

[JoshuaCasper]

My sub EQ is not a simple low pass filter... But, this discussion doesn't seem to be headed anywhere... You guys keep doing what you do, I will keep doing what I do... Nothing but love for good music, no matter how it was made

[Gravehill]

My sub EQ is not a simple low pass filter... But, this discussion doesn't seem to be headed anywhere... You guys keep doing what you do, I will keep doing what I do... Nothing but love for good music, no matter how it was made

Its just not a good thing to get in to bad habits, thats all! Thats kind of what I was saying before, if you are using presets to EQ you are probably EQing for the wrong reasons, unless every one of your songs uses the same sounds occupying the same space (frequency, time, and panorama)

I think you will find that most good mix engineers even automate their EQs to change depending on what is currently happening in the tune

[Brothulhu]

May I ask how you are EQing you're sub then? o.o

[tripwire22]

you dont eq your sub?

[VirtualMark]

I respectfully disagree. I am self taught and have learned a great deal from presets, for a VSTi or a VST. Seeing how a pro EQs his pads, for instance, helps... I also find have stick presets ready very useful. A for instance. When making heavy bass music I always EQ my sub more or less the same. It is so much easier dragging and dropping my sub EQ preset than spending time re-inputting the parameters. Repetition slows my creativity. However, if you don't want them, don't get them, but it shouldn't matter what other people do

EQ presets are so stupid. How would you set an EQ up for vocals for example? What if they had too much at 2khz - would your preset already know that?

Best to do it by ear, don't just throw a preset on a sound!

[Murtagh]

Yeah, when you are in a middle of a producing something, and don't want to spare your time for tweaking the EQ, a sort of a standard drum, vocal, keys, preset will really fasten up your workflow, and wont let you lose the musical idea.

Jeez man, how long does it take for you to EQ something?

A while if you do it right.