I’m really hoping someone with a bit of studio knowledge can help me out as I’m clueless...
What frequency range would you use to describe:
• A) ‘Chewy gain’. Think Van Halen, digging in and hearing that definitive pick drag across the strings
• B) Pick attack - when you can hear harmonics just from the attack of the pick.
Here’s a bit of context:
I’m dialling in an EQ block to help match my Laney LFR-112 to what I hear through my AKG 92 headphones. The AKG’s have a 6dB scoop in the 1k-2kHz range, a 12dB scoop in the 2k-5k range, a spike of +6dB @ 6kHz and are pretty unresponsive after 10kHz. I love the way these headphones sound and I want my ‘flat(ish)’ Laney to sound similar.
I have gotten so close with a graphic EQ block, trusting my ear and A/Bing to tweak the frequencies - I have done this for 8 hours over the last two days, but I’m just missing what I would describe as ‘chew’ and ‘pick attack’.
By ‘chewiness’ I don’t mean honk (lower mids) or nasal (mids). Please help me find these I’m loosing the will to live and driving the neighbours nuts!
If someone can use descriptive words for the frequency spectrum that would help massively as I can experiment with the Studio EQ then.
Sorry for the ignorance on this subject chaps ?