How To EQ Piano (A beginners guide)
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What's you favourite way to treat pianos? I find distortion is a great way to get pianos heard as an EQ alternative, how about you?
I would definitely say distorting it with a bit of a 670 fairchild compression before the distortion
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Thank you so much for these EQ-videos, Sara! You break the topic down in such a clear way and the "why" perspective is invaluable. 😊
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@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing can you do video how to mix song Just Piano and Vocal song with Lead Vocal and BGV Vocal
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Thanks Sara. Really helpful for me as piano is always a key part of my mixes. Your videos are getting even better. Just the right balance of theory, principles and practice.
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Thank you Sara for making this video about EQ'ing piano. I've been waiting for this kind of video tutorial. Very timely. Excellent. Full of advice and tips and tricks.
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I met your channel today, Sara. I like your young energy. You're so smart, funny (and beauty) and this video in particularly will be help me a lot because my pianos in the end sounds like an angry horse hammer the high keys 😂
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Hi Sara...Just found you ! Excellent info and gave me some things to consider....Thanks! I've got my writing partner's piano arrangement with some synth, harp, etc. on the same track, which I arranged around (GarageBand) I have a vocal solo track & about 10 children's vocal tracks, along with about 10 orchestra instruments, strings, etc. My first time arranging all of this and want the largeness of the bridge where the orchestra comes in but want to keep my piano track to not be covered, but not overloading on the gain...I EQ'd each instrument last night and really brought out the bass/bigger sound...now I want to make the piano arrangement is prominent. 🙄 Newbie***
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This series has helped me understand alot about eq. Thank you Sara
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Great video. The tip for listening to the other instruments around the one you’ve applied eq to to see if that sound changes is gold. Literally ever thought of that, even though it’s quite obvious now I think about it. Looking forward to the next in the series.
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Boosting 1k on a piano: I didn't ever dare until now, but this was eye-opening - again. Thanks!
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More stuff to use in our actual remake of an old song, that needs better mixing! Thank you!
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Once again, an excellent video. Thanks so much Sara.
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I put mid frequency instruments to a bus and side chain the vocal to the Focusrite Reveal plugin which is a frequency dependent Ducker and you control ducking with percent. Works like a hot damn. I like using sateration on almost all mid range instruments I want to stick out. I've got too many saturators now it's hard to choose. Whoops!
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Very helpful Sara
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Thanks so much for this. Really useful. I do mainly piano stuff and find this really hard to get right - especially across different speaker systems. I either get mud or harshness, but will focus on the frequency ranges you suggest.
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Compressing and eqing piano is honestly my biggest issue left lol
I like to take them on days out and a nice meal. Nice vid. Thanks
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I really appreciate these series of videos you've been making. Piano is my main instrument, having played for over 30 yrs now and yet I find it the trickiest to mix. I think that's because it's both melodic, percussive and also fills the entire frequency spectrum. Controlling all those spikes and resonances is always a challenge. Would be interested to know if you typically use additional processing on Pianos, such as compression or saturation? Or whether you tend to keep it natural. Thanks again!
After EQ I tend to use gentle compression using an optical compressor, usually an LA2A plugin, then go from there. Distortion does a good job of helping the ear latch on to it, so I use that in busier mixes or when trying to mix it with guitars and synths.
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Is that your nails on the keys or an acoustic guitar I’m hearing or the acoustics of the electric?
I really like the vibe of this song. Who is the artist and what is the song title? Thanks.
The links are in the description for both tracks used. Are you referring to the modern classical track or the rock track?
great video! Question:
You touch briefly on the 3-5k range being where the vocals are. Because of this, I'm always timid about boosting other instruments in this range, because I'm afraid of masking with the presence range of the vocal. Any advice for reconciling this?
My current go-to method is dynamic eq. If a guitar/piano/synth has any kind of presence boosting in 3-5k, I put in a gentle dynamic eq cut in that range to trigger when the vocal comes in. Any other tips or principles to address this? Many thanks!
What I do, is sidechain with vcls so that when I need it, the piano leave space to my vcls, and when vcls are not there, the piano has its presence.
@@guglielmonigro that's what I mean. I use a sidechain into a dynamic eq
The side chaining method is a good one, another is to boost only the sides using mid-side EQ on a stereo piano, dip the mid a dB or two to make room for the vocal. If it's mono, I tend to pan away from centre and that seems to work for me.
@@SaraCarterSimplyMixing thank you kindly for the reply! Lately I've been doing mono checks as I mix, so that I know the mix is under control in mono, but the dynamic eq method seems to hold up better in mono because, honestly, all the advanced techniques with comb filtering and delay to work the sides in stereo to keep them happy in mono...a little above my pay grade lol.
Perhaps in a future video you can talk about more advanced techniques in stereo-mono compatibility? I've always wanted to wrap my head around that.
@@YourFavouriteColor yes, Mid/side mixing is always a great theme.
Getting the piano to fit with the instrumentation isn't to bad until the vocal stomps all over it.
When I play live I hate playing with pianos more than humbuckered rhythm guitarists and my bass disappears at times.
In recordings I just high-pass like a guitar and remove mud.
Interesting, I tend to add a mid boost to bass in the same zone as the piano but offset the frequencies if masking occurs.
Not sure why this ended up on my recommended feed, added to the playlist nonetheless, maybe it's the british accent.
Hope you like it :)
Just record the instrument correctly and you won't NEEED "EQ".
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Way too much talking for a short tutorial video. No flow in delivery and long drawn out tangents of discussion. If it’s a tutorial keep it concise and on point for the title. We aren’t clicking this for philosophies on piano mixing
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Yes we are. (Thank you for this and all your tutorials, Sara. I’m learning a ton and love the philosophies.)
@@CoveringFireOMAB I was giving advice to help her. Autistic people like yourself might be receptive to this style but it won’t work for majority of viewers and that’s fact. That’s why her subscribers after 4 years are stagnated in the 20k range. Someone with this consistency this long should at least be 100k by now. You don’t have to agree but the numbers don’t lie. A video title “how to” should be focused on concise practical steps. I guarantee video analytics will show less than 50% engagement after 10 minutes.