Using Parametric EQ to Shape Your Sound

In this video, AB demonstrates how to use a parametric EQ to shape your sound. By cutting frequencies you don’t like and boosting the “good stuff,” you can apply this technique to sweeten any audio track you’re working with.
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[@barryohagan1176]

I found AB's voice a little flat or muffled. it could have done with some boosting in the higher frequencies.

[@dennismeyers2008]

6:00 sounds very nice right there!

[@ecmjr]

I wish that at the end you replayed both before and after for a direct comparison. I find sound editing harder than photo/video editing.

[@JerryAulenbach]

Really helpful and practical guide to how these things work. Thanks!

[@BandH]

glad it was helpful!

[@PotatoeChipz]

You explained the parametric equalizing for me in my car audio. Here's what I've learned 5 minutes in. I wasted $160 on cabin speakers

[@eddysmusic9191]

crisp point wise teaching! awesome. Thank you.

[@JusticeLeagueJH]

Man, I loved this video.

[@IFechiMusic]

You hear that sound on 5:24.. some like ttrrrrrrrrr. Wen we sing that sound always comes between the vocals.. regular ppl dont hear that, but we engeneer do...

[@undergroundkid8337]

Great video this guy is good

[@aspjake123]

excellent video, to the point without all the talking common in most U tube vids. Thank you

[@ThePupil]

My Wiim Pro+ stream/dac has parametric EQ. any advise on using this in general? I'd use the EQ just to play music, not to edit audio tracks

[@justaskdad]

I just purchased a Rane PEQ 55 for home audio use. Once EQ is set up like in your demonstration do I just leave and forget or will I have to shape it for every different song I listen to? Thank you.

[@f8accompli238]

Thanks AB! Very helpful and informative.

[@rpurdum]

Excellent tutorial!

[@laurenjoffe2621]

Your previous tutorial I just watched re equipment and getting started was super helpful! This video however uses the kind of vocab that has beginners lost in the first 50 seconds. Please keep in mind that people watching your video are very likely brand new to all of this. 50 seconds in and I have no idea what you’re saying because you’ve said “frequency, gain, boost, Width/Q etc”. Please please simplify and break down the vocab so beginners can understand what you’re saying.

[@samueltse1753]

Thank you AB!

[@ItsJustMeStevie]

Great video. Extremely helpful. I'm learning this for Premiere Pro. Question: When testing sound, is it best to use a headset or the speakers from the computer?

[@BandH]

Use whichever method you find comfortable. AB is using a quality pair of monitors. Headphones will provide a degree of isolation from ambient sound in your workspace. >Mark

[@dennismeyers2008]

I need more of this

[@Chilajuana]

Awesome tutorial!!!

[@kingsclarity9031]

Very informal on paramatic eq's

[@AndrewDeme]

Nice work

[@VisarionNicolof]

I do not get it yet, but i like it though. Keep up the good work!

[@LlywiRipper]

well, EQ'ing is like sculpting or making way to the other frequencies not to clash each other. Its kind of making a puzzle pieces then fit them together. Its Balancing

[@dwoodog]

I’m using Adobe audition. This is really useful when recording to audio cassette. Always needs some boosted highs.

[@ntkproduction150]

Thank you , We can see you realy want to help beggeners like me , it was serious but its gonna be realy helpful for me , respect ✌️👈🏻

[@randomcloutqualified9151]

nice video helpful info

[@superclips4329]

@4:05 you said there is a nasal type sound at 800 Hz. How did you figure that out that the nasal sound is at 800 Hz?

[@BandH]

The EQ graph shows the frequency in Hz. AB is subjectively describing the sound as "nasally" >Mark

[@gearup2967]

couldn't have explained it better

[@ranch51]

helpful thank you!

[@twominuteopinion1914]

I'm confused why graph in EQ shows some frequencies going past 0db, isn't that clipping?

[@BandH]

Audible clipping distortion will not happen at the 0dB demarcation. There is typically more headroom available depending upon the vocalist or instrument and the musical material. EQ is also a mater of personal taste and preference. >Mark

[@twominuteopinion1914]

@@BandH i found out eq amplitude levels on y axis are actually gain levels not audio's volume. so it represents gain from -15db to 15db

[@dadathegreat9910]

is there any parametric eq on googleplay? that i can use in android phones?

[@BandH]

I am not aware of a dedicated parametric EQ for Android. There many equalizer apps available from the Google Play Store. >Mark

[@dadathegreat9910]

@@BandH yeah ive tried many of them.. i think parametric is the best after watching your vid. but i cant find it..😪

[@GGGrandMaster]

Poweramp Equalizer

[@rathuone3001]

For a beginner this is difficult to understand next time take a bad audio preferably recorded with camera mic and tweak it so we can see how good this stuff is

[@masimusic316]

Are you serious that eq-ing was terrible and spiky I would have expected less attack than that, the problem is when you duck down the whole vocal sounds worser

[@emiliomagnus940]

just wondering if this will work when my mom is nagging me, will she sounds beautiful and soft to my ears? just kidding :) Thanks for this video

[@LlywiRipper]

Listen "to" my ears? how? ....just kidding. thank you for this Video

[@Sir-Kay]

If only the distracting background music wasn't there I would have understood it a bit better.

[@qingwen99]

I would be able to hear and understand you and and your examples better without the noise (music) in the background.

[@joshuas8779]

At the start of this video I didn't like the vocal line that much. By the end, after having heard it about 50 times, I was really tired of it. Please play it a little bit less next time because I got sick of it after all those repeats.

[@anothema1817]

This is never gonna be any good for you or me OoOOOo

[@whitelightenergydads]

vocal is not annoying enough. please use a more annoying vocal sample next time. thanks

[@zsozsonagy2182]

Hello! Fabfilter is one suck. ;-) ...and equalization of allways sample spacialization. Whats this? Equ video of war? Hahaha

[@ZumadoggGoogle2]

Seriously, that horrible female vocal was too much to endure, over and over. Vocals are to be sung through the mouth, not the nose. Something less annoying for the next one, please.

[@SalawuIbrahim]

FOH love.