

Go for those instead of Presets.īeyond the learning by trial and error (and lots of time) thoughts (certainly true enough and good advice), there are also some plugins out there that can make it easier to get something useful without having mastered all the ins and outs. I’d advise you to totally ignore Presets for this kind of work (as opposed to ear candy stuff like delays).Īudio Engineering is pretty much like learning to play an instrument - the mistakes are necessary to learn how to avoid them & you need to put in the time to get good at it… That said there are plenty of videos & articles with advice on how to learn the skills needed for EQ, Compression, etc. But if, like you, someone doesn’t have those skills then the Presets are just as likely to lead you down the wrong path as the correct one. And that works OK if you already have the skills to do it yourself from scratch. Some folks will suggest using the Presets as starting points and tweaking the settings from there. The problem with Presets for doing corrective work like EQ and compression is that the actual settings are very dependent on the source material - and the voice you are trying to EQ is undoubtedly different than the voice the Preset was created for. The unfortunate reality is that doing more of the above is what it really takes. I do know what I want to hear, but how to achieve that? Basically because I don’t know enough about.

I fiddle around and in the end I’m still not satisfied.
