EQ-ing NotePerformer In Dorico

Hi All,

I thought that out-of-the-box NotePerformer needed some EQ-ing and this is what I came up with using Izotope’s Tonal Balance Control. This might be useful to some.

**Leigh

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Yeah, NP tends to be quite heavy on the high-end.
When I am done with writing in Dorico I export every player to audio files and put them into a Cubase session where I have pre-configured lanes for each instrument.

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Without even hearing it I would personally say at a glance that’s a very aggressive EQ curve. -10db in the high-mids around 4K and then followed by a low-pass (hi-cut) slope which starts to cut everything in a downward trend ending at 16K will most likely result in a lack of clarity - especially those upper-mids which where attack and articulations of instruments are most audible to the human ear.

I personally find NP native sounds to be a little thin, so removing that much in the bass and low-mids (nodes 2 and 3) also seems a bit heavy handed IMHO, but that’s just me.

Disclaimer - I am not familiar with Vienna’s EQ here, if that curve is actually as aggressive as it looks. But the tonal balance output where everything steeply falls off in the high-mids, with a general low-mid focus, is going to result in a tonal imbalance, I believe.

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Yes, if those two curves are superimposed it’s a huge change.

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