Best (simple) Equalizer to separate music bands

startec's icon

Hi,

I am trying to get the best "Visual Eq" possible.  I am looking to separate out a song into the specific parts (lows, highs) etc.  Ideally this would allow me to separate (as much as possible) kick drums from hi-hats and bass guitar from higher synths.  I am mainly interested in the numerical data, but having a visual indication would be great to.  I attached what I have, something that is pretty close, but I am not sure if I have spaced my frequencies enough. Any other input would be appreciated. Thanks

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Wetterberg's icon

your frequency bands are jumbled up quite a bit. I'd start by sorting that out.

I would actually jump straight to fffb~ which lets you feed in lists. I like lists in Max for a lot of things, but mainly it lets me work with multisliders in a neat way, as the fffb~ helpfile shows.

startec's icon

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Roman Thilenius's icon


fffb~ is a very naive approach but for a GEQ with 31 or more bands it will still be surprisingly close to how a cheap hardware sounds.

a "better" design might be: bandpasses based on biquad~, with butterworth topology from filterdesign~, must use 24 db because of the phase, then add these filters´output parallel to the original. (substract for reduction)