Guitarhacker
Listened again this morning.... try pulling the mids and low mids out of the vocal track a bit.... that will thin it out a bit....I'm hearing a middy... boxy sound which tends to make the voice too fat and hard to listen to. Also drop the EQ curve off below 80 on the voice...there's nothing down there you need.
The EQ in the mid range should be flat or perhaps a slight dip in the 100 to 400 range... and the highs maybe flat to a slight raise a db or so, and drop off steeply past 8k.....
You'll need to play around to get it right...... but try that and see if that vocal track doesn't clean up real nice.
Herb thanks, and I got your PM as well. I want to say up front here that I have had this EQ advice elsewhere and frankly, my skillset on EQ is just not there. I have upgraded several times, between MC4/MC5, Sonar 8.5.3, now to X-1 PE, but aside from pulling up for example, X-1's beautiful Vintage EQ_64 tool, and selecting one of a couple nice default settings, I can not understand EQ further. I'll try to explain specifically: when I'm told to "drop a EQ curve" or "dip in 100-400 range" I am not able to understand WHAT exactly to DO in the EQ tools that I have (the ones that come with Sonar). I do not have any of the Ozone pkgs, no, but I know that I need to grab a good EQ tutorial and get a handle on this. I
do understand the theory part - that it's all about freqs and that the male voice collides with freqs in midrange and bass from other instruments, making things muddy, and that when you "roll off" or "cut a notch" in somewhere, it allows them all to co-exist nicely.... I grasp the terminology fairly OK, but when I try to implement, I don't understand exactly
where to place the freq cutoff lines at, to do the job properly. I don't want to ramble on here as this probably is better for the "Techniques" forum. I will carry this off to you in PMs, but I wanted to thank you very much for this help and in pointing me in the direction I need to learn next. All good!
-John