Make your hihats classier
Added 2023-06-02 10:42:50 +0000 UTCHeyhey, a quick tip on making your hihats classier.
(🎥 BTW there'll be a Redux sampler video coming soonish, as promised. Got many msgs about it – just wanted so say here, you've been heard! 🎥)
Thought I might make a video of this, but this technique really is as simple as it gets.
Most hihats have resonance peaks in them that may create annoying "hollow" ringing. Even the classic Roland drum machine hihats.
A lot of times, you don't necessarily (realize you) hear them until you create a narrow cut and flick it on and off.
I definitely don't claim to always hear them myself either until I try.
I start by looking and cut where I see a sharp peak.
The next time you work on your song, try looking for those narrow peaks, do a narrow cut of a few dBs and hear what it does.
You can make many hats so much classier by taking out the resonances.
"Man, this is all very obvious, we know, why even mention this?" I hear you say…yes, I know, but I do say, a lot of times you don't realize the resonance is in there until you try – or, especially in the case of hihats – look and then try. I hear so many resonant hihats in my daily mixing work, I will say, this most definitely isn't obvious to everybody.
Any zero latency / minimum phase EQ is def good for this (no need for linear phase).
Make a habit of this!
Comments
That would be great. Thanks Fanu. 👍
John Citizen
2023-12-30 03:06:46 +0000 UTCVery valid for taming resonances. Been using it so much since its launch. Been thinking I might make a video, but then it might be pretty simple...but it is a great tool for making some sounds smoother.
Janne Hatula
2023-12-27 13:37:34 +0000 UTCWhat are your thoughts on Soothe? A valid tool, or something that can be simply done with a decent visual EQ?
John Citizen
2023-12-27 12:20:04 +0000 UTCGreat stuff man.
Dupla
2023-06-06 07:57:27 +0000 UTCExactly! Resonances are everywhere
Janne Hatula
2023-06-03 15:34:06 +0000 UTCThis last week I was in a studio with a professional mix engineer looking at one of my tracks and we spent a good portion of time at the beginning of the session going through and hunting down resonances. It's so weird how you don't notice it until you pull it out in an EQ and A/B test it. The takeaway for me was that it was a quick thing to do and made such a difference to the overall sound of the track.
Simon Huber
2023-06-03 14:21:54 +0000 UTC
