I don't know but everytime i hear someone explain it on youtube its like they're trying to have a laugh at me or something......


Its buzzing everywhere as they search across and all of a sudden they say... OHHH RIGHT HEREE we need to cut........

To my ears everything thats boosted in a surgical EQ sounds like crap/buzzing/wrong anyway so what exactly do you try to hear for?

 

lol

 

If your boosts are too narrow they will all sound like a bad resonance indeed.

The thing is, a regular narrow boost will just sound high pitched and annoying, like a dog whistle.

A harsh narrow boost, which is the thing you want to get rid of, will sound like a dog whistle on sandpaper...You'll hear a "ssshhrrrrhhhrrrrr", which people call harshness.

 

If you narrow boost white noise, you get a sine wave.
(alright, bandpass. But you get the idea)

 

i don't know but i think that that shhhrhrhrhrhr happens at a much wider range than what they are actually cutting...not sure maybe i need better monitors

 

I have to admit I struggle with this, every sound is different. Some sounds you will need to be really precise with a narrow q, some not so much...Problem with this is like @RMorgan said, a narrow q can make everything sound unpleasant.

Perhaps some more experienced users will be able to post some of their methods here in the coming days.

 

you will develop an ear to do that with practice, everything boosted to the extreme will sound bad, but you have to learn how to differentiate what is that you actually need or want to cut

 

Everything will sound like complete crap when strongly boosted with a narrow filter, that's normal. The trick is using this exaggeration to find the "flavour" of sound that was bothering you in your original sound, even before you boosted it. It's that feel where you know something sounds off to you (before you ever boosted anything), so armed with the boost you go and look for that exact thing.

You sweep around, it pops out in a very exaggerated way, you go "yup, there it is, that flavour that bothered me about it, except super exaggerated now", and then you think about how you want to deal with it.

Try to not think about it as "removing resonances", since every sound has resonances and removing them all would be the same as removing all the life and character of the sound. So just because there's a resonance, doesn't necessarily mean it needs to be removed. Think more in terms of hunting down flavours the original sound has that you simply don't like or don't need for your particular mix.