What Is A Parametric EQ?
We all have played with simple equalizers before. Every car stereo made since I’ve been alive has a bass and treble control. These Eqs are quite simple, by design, and wouldn’t be that useful for recording engineers in most circumstances so they came out with the parametric EQ. Basically, a parametric EQ allows you to choose how much boost or cut you want to make (like a typical graphic EQ you’ve probably used), choose the exact frequency you want to manipulate (which you may have not done before), and choose how wide you want the cut or boost to be. When I say “wide”, I mean you can control if you want to boost 100Hz and also boost 50Hz and 200Hz quite a bit or maybe you want to boost 100Hz and totally leave 85Hz and 130Hz alone. You can read more about the definition of the parametric eq in the music glossary. http://www.recordingreview.com/music_glossary/2006/06/02/parametric-eq/ What Can A Parametric EQ Do? A few common uses of a parametric Eq the following: High pass filter – Like
