"Drag" The Long Wait

[davemcg61]

Thanks, K. I still make the same assumption - leave as much of what's recorded as "unblemished" as possible. The 6dB cut originally at 124Hz wasn't deep enough or wide enough. Once upon a time, I was told there's not much reason to keep anything on a kick track above 1 or 2kHz. Maybe that's true for a pop or jazz tune, but in rock, there's another harmonic of that beater up at 8kHz. High cut that and the beater attack is shot. The same sort of thing was said about the toms - why keep above 1 or 2k? Working some of these tracks where there's only 3 drum tracks - kick, snare and stereo overheads, teaches the lesson when you hear more attack on your toms, because you never high cut the overheads. EQing stuff can be taken to some reasonable extremes, as in the case of the kick cut at 124Hz. The result being, the toms are much more present, and I didn't have to do anything to the bass guitar, they filled the gap nicely. I'm climbing the learning curves, sometimes clawing at it.