ReaEQ has been my 'go to' EQ for years, ever since Cockos gave us the stand alone versions....although to be honest, Reaper is the only DAW I use now as it has surpassed all others :) Great to see ReaEQ getting some much deserved love. Great video.
Grinder-one Reaper is the future DAW as it can certainly do everything what other Daws can and it goes even beyond that by doing everything none of them can do.
@reapermania : When adding a notch filter (by double-clicking on the lower part of the graph window), is there a way to reverse the gain so that it boosts instead of cut, just to be able to locate what we need to cut better ? I tried doing it by dragging the EQ point up, or by inverting the gain value (to a positive value) from underneath the graph, but even with that my notch filter wouldn't move and would always stay at his -"inf gain" position. That's something essential for a notch filter IMO... EDIT : the workaround solution i've found is : 1) create a regular band filter and make its Q very narrow, and use it to locate the nasty frequency you want to notch out 2) and then invert the gain value (to make it somewhat of a notch filter) from the tab menu underneath, or right-click on the EQ point and make it a "notch" BAND TYPE p.s : you can also start from a notch, and then turn it into a narrow Q band (with an opposite gain level) by double-clicking on the EQ point and choose the "band" BAND TYPE, and then change the gain value (from the tab menu) to its opposite p.s 2 : i noticed there was a "flip all bands" option in the right-click menu (that appears when you right-click an EQ point)... I wish there was also a "flip ALL SELECTED bands" option as well.
It tells you how the phase has changed based on the EQ you applied. ReaEQ is not a linear phase EQ so the phase changes based on what you do. Do you need to know any of this? Probably not. But if you do, it's there.
The phase shift indicates how the EQ "delays" the peaks & valleys at each individual frequency. So if you have a 180° phase shift at 500Hz, and you send a 500Hz sine wave through the EQ, every one of its peaks becomes a valley, and vice versa.* If you would mix that output signal with the original signal that came in, every peak will cancel out with a valley from the other, so the sine wave would disappear. Other frequencies might still get through, if the phase shift there is not as big. *If a sound (e.g. a drum) appears in different tracks which are not aligned in (="out of") phase, it can sound thin or weird* - often exactly like if you had put a notch filter (4:23) on it. As Kenny said, you probably don't need to care how the EQ shifts the phase (I never have, yet). The usual times you have to think about phase is when *recording with multiple microphones* (e.g. snare drum, from top + bottom), or *aligning tracks you got from different sources* (e.g. at a concert, the main mix straight from the mixer + audio from a camera somewhere in the room). To fix phase issues, you can flip/invert the phase by 180° with the "ø" button next to each track, and you can delay each track by dragging or the "nudge" function, and you (well, at least I myself ^^) do that until it sounds good. Looking if the peaks & valleys align while zoomed in can help sometimes, too. But yeah, I haven't really felt the need to examine the phase shift curve in the EQ. * This is not about the amplitude you see when zoomed out (the line between each peak = getting louder/quieter), but the individual "frames", which you can only see if you zoom in all the way. Frequency says how far the peaks are apart, phase says where the first (and therefore each subsequent) peak comes.
Hi there , first of all thank you so much, Kenny, for all those great video tutorials! I didn’t think about the EQs phase effects before, too, but a nice but not too scientific explanation can be found here: ethanwiner.com/EQPhase.html
@@nibblrrr7124 Thanks for the explaination. I even understood it 👍. Point is now, gotta get to my studio and check things, and play around to experiment. Song is going to be finnished a week later. So, thanks.
@@REAPERMania Thanks, mate. Actually ,let me tell you. I have had a home studio ever since. Used Cubase, though. Now, when I had a system change caused to outrun of support for my audio interface ( M-Audio is enemy now), I came across your channel. To then I never heard of Reaper. I gave it a try. And since then I've stuck with it. Great job you are doing there. Keep on.
I'm working on my first "full" mix with reaper using distorted guitar and a heavy bass line. It all sounds pretty good except I've got a lot of "rumble" in the background that shouldn't be there and there's too much treble as well. What do you suggest I do to remedy this? A low pass filter along with high pass? Kind of like an arch on the left and right? I'm getting frustrated and any help would be appreciated!
EQ on your individual instruments. LPF/HPF and some band cuts to help balance the instruments so they sit in the mix With each other instead of on top of each other. Don't try to do it all on the Master but a LPF will help kill the rumble/build-up.
Forum posts say 6dB/oct and 12dB/oct - from messing around with test tones I'd guess more like 6dB (1st order filter). Official user's guide says nothing about what type or slope it is. Also, the bandwith slider doesn't seem to really change the slope in any expected way (especially if you go further from the crossover frequency) So afaik you can only get different slopes by stacking multiple filters at the same frequency. (I know, it's kinda terrible.... After placing them in the correct position, you could link them in the automation/modulation options - but still.)
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I think it's more somewhat like "In-Depth intro to Rea-EQ". Thanks for sharing Kenny.
Thank you, Kenny, this is AWESOME
You're welcome.
ReaEQ has been my 'go to' EQ for years, ever since Cockos gave us the stand alone versions....although to be honest, Reaper is the only DAW I use now as it has surpassed all others :)
Great to see ReaEQ getting some much deserved love. Great video.
Grinder-one Reaper is the future DAW as it can certainly do everything what other Daws can and it goes even beyond that by doing everything none of them can do.
this is a great video , but I only have one one question,
how do I make all the bands to have different colours just. like in reeeq❓❓❓
@reapermania :
When adding a notch filter (by double-clicking on the lower part of the graph window), is there a way to reverse the gain so that it boosts instead of cut, just to be able to locate what we need to cut better ?
I tried doing it by dragging the EQ point up, or by inverting the gain value (to a positive value) from underneath the graph, but even with that my notch filter wouldn't move and would always stay at his -"inf gain" position.
That's something essential for a notch filter IMO...
EDIT : the workaround solution i've found is :
1) create a regular band filter and make its Q very narrow, and use it to locate the nasty frequency you want to notch out
2) and then invert the gain value (to make it somewhat of a notch filter) from the tab menu underneath, or right-click on the EQ point and make it a "notch" BAND TYPE
p.s : you can also start from a notch, and then turn it into a narrow Q band (with an opposite gain level) by double-clicking on the EQ point and choose the "band" BAND TYPE, and then change the gain value (from the tab menu) to its opposite
p.s 2 : i noticed there was a "flip all bands" option in the right-click menu (that appears when you right-click an EQ point)... I wish there was also a "flip ALL SELECTED bands" option as well.
Other DAWs: Here's an 8 band EQ
Reaper: Here's an EQ. Add as many bands as you want.
Obrigado Kenny você é o melhor....
Kenny - another great tutorial - thanks! I love REAPER...
Thanks Kenny,Your videos are so helpful.
fantastic channel! thanks
Hi, there. Now, what is the phase for. Can anyone explain ?. What is it, and what does it tell me ?.
It tells you how the phase has changed based on the EQ you applied. ReaEQ is not a linear phase EQ so the phase changes based on what you do. Do you need to know any of this? Probably not. But if you do, it's there.
The phase shift indicates how the EQ "delays" the peaks & valleys at each individual frequency. So if you have a 180° phase shift at 500Hz, and you send a 500Hz sine wave through the EQ, every one of its peaks becomes a valley, and vice versa.* If you would mix that output signal with the original signal that came in, every peak will cancel out with a valley from the other, so the sine wave would disappear. Other frequencies might still get through, if the phase shift there is not as big. *If a sound (e.g. a drum) appears in different tracks which are not aligned in (="out of") phase, it can sound thin or weird* - often exactly like if you had put a notch filter (4:23) on it.
As Kenny said, you probably don't need to care how the EQ shifts the phase (I never have, yet). The usual times you have to think about phase is when *recording with multiple microphones* (e.g. snare drum, from top + bottom), or *aligning tracks you got from different sources* (e.g. at a concert, the main mix straight from the mixer + audio from a camera somewhere in the room).
To fix phase issues, you can flip/invert the phase by 180° with the "ø" button next to each track, and you can delay each track by dragging or the "nudge" function, and you (well, at least I myself ^^) do that until it sounds good. Looking if the peaks & valleys align while zoomed in can help sometimes, too. But yeah, I haven't really felt the need to examine the phase shift curve in the EQ.
* This is not about the amplitude you see when zoomed out (the line between each peak = getting louder/quieter), but the individual "frames", which you can only see if you zoom in all the way. Frequency says how far the peaks are apart, phase says where the first (and therefore each subsequent) peak comes.
Hi there , first of all thank you so much, Kenny, for all those great video tutorials! I didn’t think about the EQs phase effects before, too, but a nice but not too scientific explanation can be found here: ethanwiner.com/EQPhase.html
@@nibblrrr7124 Thanks for the explaination. I even understood it 👍. Point is now, gotta get to my studio and check things, and play around to experiment. Song is going to be finnished a week later. So, thanks.
@@REAPERMania Thanks, mate. Actually ,let me tell you. I have had a home studio ever since. Used Cubase, though. Now, when I had a system change caused to outrun of support for my audio interface ( M-Audio is enemy now), I came across your channel. To then I never heard of Reaper. I gave it a try. And since then I've stuck with it. Great job you are doing there. Keep on.
Probably a rookie question, but what's the point of the all-pass filter? Thing doesn't seem to do anything
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-pass_filter - It's not something that most of us need which is why I didn't go into it.
I'm working on my first "full" mix with reaper using distorted guitar and a heavy bass line. It all sounds pretty good except I've got a lot of "rumble" in the background that shouldn't be there and there's too much treble as well. What do you suggest I do to remedy this? A low pass filter along with high pass? Kind of like an arch on the left and right? I'm getting frustrated and any help would be appreciated!
EQ on your individual instruments. LPF/HPF and some band cuts to help balance the instruments so they sit in the mix With each other instead of on top of each other. Don't try to do it all on the Master but a LPF will help kill the rumble/build-up.
@@decipherlogic thanks for the reply.
Thanks Kenny!
Very cool, no need to use fabfilter and it's higher cpu use anymore!
I sometimes wish i had the fabfilter EQ because setting up the dynamic EQ with ReaEQ is a nightmare
A "remove all bands" and "remove all selected bands" option would be handy in this right-click menu also.
Great update - thanks Kenny!
i wonder does Kenny use only Reaper plugins or not when he mixes
hi kenny - does the resizing feature apply to the vst version, too?
Oh man what a time saver!
Btw Kenny, the default Bandwith of 2 on HPF and LPF to what slope would be? 12dB? 18db? 6db?
Forum posts say 6dB/oct and 12dB/oct - from messing around with test tones I'd guess more like 6dB (1st order filter). Official user's guide says nothing about what type or slope it is.
Also, the bandwith slider doesn't seem to really change the slope in any expected way (especially if you go further from the crossover frequency) So afaik you can only get different slopes by stacking multiple filters at the same frequency.
(I know, it's kinda terrible.... After placing them in the correct position, you could link them in the automation/modulation options - but still.)
How do I set the slope of the curve?
Can you make moving EQ automation ?
Yes you can do this. Same way you would automate any parameter of most plugins.
Thanks man.!
Great tutorial - thanks Kenny! Now, for the rest of the fx....
SUPER *******************************
good remix but I prefer the original
You didn't even mention parameter modulation.
This felt more like 'how to use an EQ at a basic level' - I didn't gain any 'advanced' knowledge at all.
👍
Just.....wow.