{"id":255,"date":"2017-03-16T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T06:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2017-03-16T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:05:59","slug":"snare-eq-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/snare-eq-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"Snare EQ Shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the shootout, I did some research on EQing the snare drum. I found good articles from <a href=\"https:\/\/talkinmusic.com\/musicproduction\/snare-eq-phat-punchy-snare-eq\/\">TalkinMusic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.audio-issues.com\/music-mixing\/drum-eq-guide\/\">AudioIssues<\/a>. For tracking the shootout, I had my friend Matt play two different 8 bar phrases on the kit, one that was loud with a lot of snare and the other more basic and quieter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5889-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5889\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5889-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5889-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5889-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the audio.\u00a0Each 8 bar phrase is played 4 times, each time with a different EQ on the snare. (That was the only processing done the tracks.) The order is clean, WarmAudio, 6020 Ultimate EQ, TDR SlickEQ, and the ProTools stock 7 band EQ.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/312662604&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s screenshots\u00a0of the settings each one was set to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-12.30.46-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-12.30.46-AM-234x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-16 at 12.30.46 AM\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-12.30.46-AM-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-12.30.46-AM.png 487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.09-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.09-AM-300x133.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-16 at 1.04.09 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.09-AM-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.09-AM.png 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.13-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"http:\/\/seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.13-AM-300x220.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-03-16 at 1.04.13 AM\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.13-AM-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-16-at-1.04.13-AM.png 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the shootout, I did some research on EQing the snare drum. I found good articles from TalkinMusic and AudioIssues. For tracking the shootout, I had my friend Matt play two different 8 bar phrases on the kit, one that was loud with a lot of snare and the other more basic and quieter. Here&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/16\/snare-eq-shootout\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snare EQ Shootout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seanrulehoffman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}