at the link below, which I suggest you kindly read through, in some detail, as there are a few thoughts of others which led me to my current solution, along with quite a bit of research and God's good grace to enable me work through the issues.Ĥ. Recently I revisited this idea of using EQ, and ran into some startling limitations, related to some strangeness in the results which I could hear, further to which I started a thread on the Mastering Forum at for help. I was not satisfied with the results as they did not give me equivalent results on all manner of music and audio,is so I took off the EQ - Fortunately in Reaper all of this is on the Monitoring FX Chain, oh that is such a God send, one of the most usefull things about Reaper - which means at mixdown, if you mix - you have nothing to do, turn on or turn off, as your monitoring FX are not used in the mix.ģ. ie RT60 decay of reverberations is fairly fast as I confirmed, through measuring (much later). My studio is approx 4 meters by 4 meters - height 2.5 meters, with some soft absorbent furnishing, so it's already fairly well damped. Of course this was after putting in a bit of acoustic treatment. A while back I attempted using a similar approach, just my ears, to create the eq curves in ReaEQ, to tame only the low end and the mids. Ultimately audio is still art, and taste/tailoring/experimentation is required in the application of any method.Ģ. So for live EQ correction, I would recommend some moderation, or an alternative thought process be adopted as IMHO, EQ alone will not correct long reverberation reflections, but could effectively resolve the speaker corrections. As some of you have already mentioned on this thread - with EQ - sometimes less is more, and if I may conclude on this point, attempting to correct long reverberation reflections with EQ alone, in my opinion is counterproductive, as it causes you to create excessive EQ compensation, which is unpleasant to listeners near the speakers. I however caution that over time, I have discovered aspects of this approach that will need modification, for effectiveness. This habit started a few years earlier, at other venues, but the aforementioned was my most significant application. I also applied graphic EQ's to the foldback - stage mixes, and at the time, this did make a huge difference in clarity at the venue where I did this, over several months - tuning purely by ear and using lots of hours to listen to tracks I knew well. Many years ago, as a live mixing engineer I got into the habit and belief that I could correct speaker and in particular, the anomalies of a room, using graphic EQ on the main mix, and/or attenuating the most significant resonances via channel EQ, especially iin the low end. The results were so spectacular, this is my way of giving back to the wonderful people who have made Reaper and other top class tools for this purpose, available, many of them for free. I obtained really great results and thought it good to share. Problem : to improve the sonics in your studio/listening environment, by "tuning" the speaker and room. This is a long read, but it may just have a really good solution to your challenge. I apologise ahead, as I am not the most concise of writers.
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