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by steve_Archive
Hello,I don't think it is possible to do this (resonant equalization) without using a hardware equalizer and console, or if it is I have no idea how. The return from the equalizer is on a separate channel and fader from the original signal.I'll explain the analog method and maybe somebody else will pop in with a way to do it in the box. I don't think it's possible (for reasons I'll explain in a minute) but maybe, who knows.Send the bass drum signal to an output bus, and patch that bus into an equalizer. You should use a tune-able single-band EQ, or neutralize the other bands in a multiband EQ. Bring the return from the equalizer into another channel on the mixer, and sweep the band until you find a bass frequency you want to boost, then assign the Equalizer channel to the same output bus, creating a feedback loop. Be careful, this can easily cause oscillation, so you want to start with that channel quite low in level. Increase the gain on the channel until you get the resonant effect you want. If the send to the bus is pre-fader, you can set the amount of feedback and the return level separately, but if they're one-and-the-same, you will need to play with the initial send from the bass drum channel, the return level and the feedback as an interactive system.I don't believe this is possible inside-the-box because the eq will have some latency, and the feedback through the equalizer will then be delayed. It's possible someone makes a circuit model of an analog equalizer with resonance (like a Moog filter) that may work, but I don't think you can use just any old equalizer plug-in.In the analog domain you can use any old equalizer.
steve albini
Electrical Audio
sa at electrical dot com
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