something occurred to me, I can see that one can select say ex: a guitar and a bass and look at the freq occupied, and then adjust to balance mix better great.
i also see in the track list one can colour all tracks to help, yes.
why then is they not an EQ that can select all tracks or groups of tracks and take or use same colour codes to see an overall freq range of all the project.
has anyone thought of this?
I mean being able to see two tracks is all well and good…. you following?
I have four guitar tracks I would like to see all and a bass or bass tracks at the same time.. is this something being worked on?
I‘m not sure if I completely understand. Maybe am3rd party plugin like the HOFA IQ Analyzer can visualize many tracks at the same time in different colours to see their relationship. But you will have to use separate EQs in each chnnel to make the adjustments.
you can only compare two channels at the same time in Cubase. However, if you route your four guitars into a group track you can compare this group to your bass track.
If you prefer dynamic EQing (most of the time that’s a more musical solution) you can use Frequency 2 and use the bass track as sidechain signal on your guitar bus. Here, you can solo your bass with the listen function in Frequency 2 to get an idea where potential masking occurs.
@Nikkin is right: Visualizing multiple tracks and potential masking issues is possible with some 3rd party plugins. Fabfilter’s Pro Q4 is pretty good at it but it’s expensive (although worth it).
Curve Resolve by Waves does the same thing like Frequency 2 but comes with a learning function. I haven’t looked into it so I can’t say if it’s any good (they gave it away as a freebie at one point).
If you are new to this I would start with pairs of two guitars using the EQ inside your track (by clicking on the “e”). Afterwards, go for the group track option.
Dynamic EQ in Frequency 2 and sidechaining would be the next level. You’ll get there, no need to rush
Curves Resolve is different from Frequency 2. In Frequency you have to configure the available bands regarding frequency range, thresholds and so on.
Curves Resolve is more for automatic identifying and controlling overlapping frequencies dynamically. A typical application would be to control the instrument bus by the vocal bus to keep the vocals clear in the mix.
I‘s based on the functionality of Waves Curves Equator, Baby Audio Smooth operator or Soothe 2 to control resonances on a track dynamically.
Thanks for the explanation @Nikkin . Are you sure Curves Resolve is based on identifying and surpressing resonances? To me it looks like de-masking based on dynamic EQing. Even if Resolve uses more EQ nodes to do that in each frequency range (haven’t looked into it).
More importantly: is it good?
You’re right. The behaviour looks somehow a bit similar to Curves Equator but in fact it’s identifying dynamically frequencies of a source to dim them dynamically on a destination channel. It uses many bands. Up to now I haven’t really used it, just were in the right time in the right YT tutorial to get it for free a few weeks ago. Bit it seems to be promising and I will start to use it.
