Inside The Recursion: Part I - Equalization guide for dummies (Illustrated!)

This week I present to you...

Inside The Recursion "Part I"

A guide for musical production inside the making of Life At Recursion's songs and the Möebius Droste's style.

It's also a way to understand the sound equalization, have you asked yourself what the knobs Bass and Treble do? or how can I equalize this car for a better music comprehension? Here's the answer, illustrated by your friend Möebius Droste.

In the conception of haven't sleep I was trying to experiment with some EQ parametrics, moving around, up, down, spin, every cartesian way of move.

So, how can I make that noise?

This is the EQ parametric of "Haven't Sleep?" my recently last song uploaded to soundcloud, you can listen it here.

Well, It's not simple, some friend of mine came over a few weeks ago and we started to record some things with the MIDI and voila, some Synths parametrics move in a functional fashion now.

I use FL-Studio to compose everything, I write on paper the configurations that I want to use and I put then into the sample.

So in this post I will show you the parametrics that I use to make that wave-ish sound.

The following images show where the sound output is.

The higher the line of the center, the more effect it will have on the output.

Ukulele

This is the main configuration for the armonic ukulele in the start. It's pretty soft with reverb and delay as fuck. I recorded it with a simple and cheap microphone, very very very lo-fi huh?

Well, I love Lo-Fi, I live Lo-Fi, I eat Lo-Fi

Synth

I make this simple, go out in the middle of nowhere and hit the listener's brain.

Every synth in the song has almost the same output Hertz value but in a recursion fashion.

The output Hertz value it's determinated by the time so tends to get a little noisey when the armonic synth hits an up note.

Drums

Looks like The Little Prince snake(¿) and it's heavily up to the bass and the expansion sound of the percusion feels into the trouble.

When the sound of the percussion comes to the end a little wave comes in, like in the picture, I tried to Ilustrate the waves with the channel modification of the image.

Can you note it? Every image has the same especification with the relation color channel-EQ wave.

This is also my learning method, a graphical enfasis of the exact sound I want, this is useful in the mixing, because it's pretty difficult to modify this after you have the exact sound and composition of your instrument, I use this for the arrangements too.

Every modification was recorded with a synth and a MIDI controller.

Soon I'm going to publish something related with the composition part of a song, also a technologic post, I'm working with something of AI in python, are you an AI enthusiast? Let me know!.

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Meebioos Drusté.