Hey Matt, I know this was five years ago when you made this video, but I want to let you know how very useful it is today. You have identified the frequencies I want to target, and the reasons I want to target them. I have a boss EQ 200 coming in the mail and can’t wait to tailor it to my signal path. Thanks for making this video. BTW I am looking for a used Grace design Bix, in case anyone reading this happens to have one to sell.

I just set up my home studio today and was having trouble getting a decent sound from my AT2020. As I've been scouring the internet (and pestering my bandmate/Studio Owner/Live Engineer, ha!) I've been overwhelmed with the amount of information out there on recording/engineering. I hadn't found anything specifically relating to the violin until I came across your videos. I'm frankly astonished to find a video series dedicated to the engineering aspect of the violin and that your explanations are really easy to follow. Thank you, and I'll be watching the rest of the series forthwith!

Best Explanation on Violin EQ

Thanks for sharing this info... That was really helpful! As a beginner to amplification/mixing trying figure this all out, EQ for fiddle has been a bit of a mystery. Your explanation was easy to follow and very practical. Cheers!

@ElectricViolinShop

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful!

Thank you Matt, very clear & concise + extremely useful.

@ElectricViolinShop

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Glad you found it useful. :)

Thanks. Very informative and important. Great video.

@ElectricViolinShop

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You rock Matt. This was very helpful.

Such a great video. It helps me to find a perfect tone for my viper. Make the settings in the EQ-Settings in my Boss GT-100. Thanks!!!

@ElectricViolinShop

7 жыл бұрын

Saitenwechsler Thanks for watching and glad it helped! Keep tuning in...lots more to come in this series.

Awesome job, think i have been going about my eq the wrong way. Heard someone recently saying they couldn't understand how cutting in parts of the eq makes things sound better, they were just used to always bumping everything up. Thanks

@MattBellViolinist

7 жыл бұрын

Think of it this way. Cutting Mids is a lot like turning up highs. It's all relative. And your EQ section probably isn't the cleanest gain stage in the world. Cut and use your preamp to bring the level back up. Glad you like the series. Thanks!

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Love you for this. Very helpful

thanx a lot this really helped

very good and clear

Hey Mate. Thanks for these great videos. Has refreshed my memory on the details of these concepts. I play an acoustic violin with a FIshman V-200, through a Fishman Platinum Pro EQ. For the most part, I am getting a really rich and natural sound, especially from the G and D strings. I am having trouble with removing a bit of shrill and slight distortion from the A and E strings. Have tried adding a Boss GE-7 in front of the Platinum Pro EQ, which softens things a bit, but I can't get rid of the distortion. I am not sure if it is just the Amp I am playing through (CORT AF60 ACOUSTIC GUITAR AMPLIFIER 60W) or it is in indeed with my signal chain. Should I be looking at something like a Shelf Filter early on in the chain? Any suggestions would be awesome.Cheers! Nathan

Awesome video, thanks for putting this together. Do you have a recommendation for which iphone RTA app you would use?

@MattBellViolinist

7 жыл бұрын

I use the app called RTA.

Awesome. Thanks Matt for putting this up! Very helpful. I'm an acoustic player. The issue I have is that my instrument setup (standard acoustic fiddle with Barcus-Berry bridge) has a very pronounced peak at about 130 Hz. I am currently using a 31-band graphic to try and notch this out but am only having limited success. When I do that, it kills the rest of the lows (overtones) when I try to notch that one out. I believe the issue is caused by the location of the transducer being biased toward the G-string side of the bridge, which is a source problem, as you say in the video. Is there anything else I can try besides notching out that one freq? Would a parametric help me out here? Thank you again!

@MattBellViolinist

7 жыл бұрын

So your violin with the pickup is just boomy? 130 Hz is pretty low. I would use a high pass and go ahead and kill those lows. They'll just sound muddy in a mix anyway. I've also seen guys throw a piece of gaff tape over the F holes. That might help some.

Hey Matt - another question. I have a question about RTA’s. Most of the comments on the iPhone RTA’s say they aren’t accurate below about 250 Hz. This is a problem as you know when, for example, playing on G string. What RTA do you recommend? This is for amplified acoustic shows, for example bluegrass, Celtic, or old-time string band. Thank you!

@MattBellViolinist

7 жыл бұрын

You can check your rta by putting it in front of a computer. Look for a frequency sweep video on KZread. It'll show the frequency it's playing on the screen. See what your rta reads and that'll tell you.

@ElectricViolinShop

7 жыл бұрын

We just checked the RTA app on Matt's iPhone with a frequency sweep video on youtube. The video goes from 20Hz to 20kHz. The RTA and it was quite accurate from 50 or 60Hz to 17 or 18kHz. And the truth is that the computer speaker can't reproduce the very lowest and very highest frequencies. I'd say the comments saying the RTA can't identify frequencies below 250 Hz are dead wrong. Maybe the amplitude isn't 100% accurate, but the phone can definitely identify those frequencies.

Do you do a demonstration on an actual mixer. Do you have a rough and ready, average recommendation for settings on EQ?

@ElectricViolinShop

6 жыл бұрын

No. It is dependent on three things - your source, your landscape and your ears. So I can't really recommend an EQ without knowing what your instrument sounds like, what type of mix you're trying to work with (are you in a string section? are you playing with a rock band? are you playing with an EDM DJ?), and what type of tone you like (bright? warm? thick? thin?)

@JNITLOST

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Matt. In the UK we have 'open mic' sessions in pubs. You go along with your instrument, plug into whatever PA and go. There is no time for messing around trying to find best settings. If you are lucky the host might ask you if you have any settings you want? This is where I thought you might come in with your vast experience with some common workable settings. Cheers John

@ElectricViolinShop

6 жыл бұрын

I'd definitely make sure I have a DI. Plugging an electric violin directly into a board is usually a bad idea. All I can tell you is what I usually do. I just ask them to pull a little bit of highs out. That's because I use a pedalboard that I've already done all of my own EQ on...

how do you face the fact of use an EQ and a Octaver pedal at the same time?

@ElectricViolinShop

7 жыл бұрын

Good question. I would probably use the octaver first and then EQ as needed after that. Because the octaver shifts everything down an octave, including overtones and undertones, you might want to make a few tweaks.

@ElectricViolinShop

7 жыл бұрын

It should work just fine.

Hi Matt in this Vid i become a fan of you, because you help people like me to produce better. I love to make music but in EQing i am an amateur. Can you show us a whole tutorial where you explicit work on the Violin to sounds better for example in 11:35. You can check up my Chanel and hear what i am doing wrong!

@ElectricViolinShop

5 жыл бұрын

It really depends on a lot of things. I won't have time to listen to a lot of video today, but my general advice is to experiment until you find a sound that YOU like.

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