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Hip Hop EQ Guidelines

Saturday, August 16, 2008 , Posted by Anonymous at 10:50 AM



Hip Hop Instrument and Vocal EQ Sweet Spots
(Parametric Equalizer)

Hiphop Bass

Low - 100Hz
H-Mid - 2.5KHz


Hiphop Bass Drum

Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 500Hz


Hiphop Cymbals

Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 400Hz
H-Mid - 1Khz
High - 14KHz



Hiphop Hi-hat

Low - 90Hz
L-Mid - 400Hz
H-Mid - 3KHz
High - 8KHz


Hiphop Kick

Low - 80Hz
L-Mid - 300Hz
H-Mid - 1.5KHz
High - 6KHz


Hiphop Overheads

H-Mid - 9Khz


Hiphop Percussion

Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 400Hz
H-Mid - 3KHz
High - 17KHz


Hiphop Piano

Low - 100Hz
H-Mid - 9Khz


Hiphop Snare

Low - 150Hz
L-Mid - 1KHz
H-Mid - 3KHz
High - 5KHz


Hiphop Strings

Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 750Hz



Hiphop Synth

Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 400Hz



Hiphop Toms

Low - 100Hz
L-Mid - 500Hz
H-Mid - 9KHz


Hiphop Vocals

Low - 200Hz
L-Mid - 3KHz
H-Mid - 8KHz

Note: These "sweet spot" ranges are approximate places to cut or boost to get
a better sound or to make an instrument sound better. Nothing is fixed in hip hop sound engineering so experiment to your own liking, usually the low sweet spots are reference points to cut-off or filtered off and reduce these unwanted low frequencies.


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