Drum Track Processing, Part 6: Additional Equalization Guidelines by Thai Long Ly
- July 5, 2010, 6:58 am
This is the sixth installment of my article series focusing on the processing of drum tracks. Today’s focus is on equalization of overheads, toms, hi-hats, and rooms.
First lets talk overheads. Lets see, where do I begin? Applying EQ to an overhead track depends on the artistic approach you’re employing for your song and their respective drum tracks (I suppose this is true for anything, but stay with me here). If you’re primarily using the overheads as cymbal mics, then you’ll want to roll out most of the bottom end by using a Hi Pass Filter. Simply jettison everything below 500Hz or so and sneak the track up in level so that the cymbals sit in a proper place (with the drum tracks and the song in general) when struck. You might want to boost above 10kHz for
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