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In this video from Berklee Online’s Vocal Production Techniques for Singers course, instructor Stephen Kowalczyk Santoro uses a retro snare sample with an unwanted frequency to teach you how to sweep frequencies inside Digital Audio Workstations (DAW). Using a parametric EQ is a filter sweep on a plug-in that has this rich visual guide makes things fairly easy. Performing a sweep will help you isolate problem frequencies. We find them by boosting them and listening. For this, it is necessary to use the equalizer (EQ) of the track, which will allow you to modify specific frequencies by dragging different points up or down, depending on whether you want to boost or cut a frequency. The equalizer displays the gain, which refers to how much the frequency is being changed, and the Q, which means how narrow the band is (the narrower the band, the less frequencies are being targeted at once). In this example, Kowalczyk Santoro boosts the middle frequencies with a fairly narrow Q and moves it around into different frequencies while he loops the track to find out where the most problematic sound is. Once he finds the certain frequency that is causing an unwanted sound, he widens the Q, and pulls it down below the middle line to get rid of it. Kowalczyk Santoro repeats the same procedure with other frequencies to see if there are more unwanted frequencies that need to be sweeped. In the last part of this video, Kowalczyk Santoro demonstrates how frequency sweeping can also be done in vocal tracks as well “to locate and duck annoying frequencies.”
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ABOUT STEVEN KOWALCZYK SANTORO:
Steven Kowalczyk Santoro is a singer, composer, producer, and arranger from Massachusetts. Having grown up in a musical family, he started playing the horn, transitioning later to the piano, and writing songs. He became interested in Afro-American music and Jazz, which led him to the University of Massachusetts. He has toured the US and Europe extensively, playing and recording with artists such as Sting, Clarence Penn, Lee Ritenour, Joe Porcaro, John Patitucci, Paula Cole, Chris Botti, among others. Steven is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music, in the Voice Department.
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