Low passing drum overheads

[I'm Painting Again]

wonder if they actually meant actual HFP/LPF or shelf or whatever now

I def wasnt thinking that specifically


and yea you get that resonance bump with true HFP/LPF that can make it sound weird

[The Scum]

wonder if they actually meant actual HFP/LPF or shelf or whatever now

Good call. My day gig is in electronics design, and even professional circuit designers sometimes goof the nomenclature, saying highpass when they mean lowpass. Maybe that happened here?

It's not uncommon at all to highpass the overheads.

and yea you get that resonance bump with true HFP/LPF that can make it sound weird

That's more a property of a particular implementation or Q setting (when available). Plenty of filters don't have a bump at the turnover frequency - the filters found in a console usually don't...plugins sometimes, synthesizers nearly always.

[losthighway]

wonder if they actually meant actual HFP/LPF or shelf or whatever now

Good call. My day gig is in electronics design, and even professional circuit designers sometimes goof the nomenclature, saying highpass when they mean lowpass. Maybe that happened here?

It's not uncommon at all to highpass the overheads.

No, I'm with you there. I do it often.

The ME was talking about moving my LPF lower to cut more of the top off the overheads.

The reactions have shown it's a pretty unique approach. Again, could be cool on the right thing, it was just so weird that he said "Try moving your low pass a little lower to pull back etc". As if the LPF were already there. Like of course you'd lop off all the high frequencies on your cymbal mics. It's step 1!

[logancircle]

Dynamic EQ as a high shelf works wonders to tamp down exaggerated spikes and you don’t have to shelve off everything up high. Just the ice picks. I will, gulp, admit to using Izotope’s dynamic EQ very often.

[alexdingley]

Dynamic EQ…

Just throwing in a “hell yes!” For dynamic eq in general on drums.

I use it for damping harshness, beefing up snare, and then I also use it on other low end tracks, keyed off of kick and snare, to allow them to sneak/cut through better.