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Originally Posted by tommyd123  What range and what amount do you boost in the low end if and when you do? |
This of course varies from track to track and depends on a lot of other things, but in general the EQ for my "modern" kick drum looks something like:
-HP filter around 40-60 hz at 18 db/octave
-Boost somewhere around 60-120 hz by 3 db at a fairly tight bandwidth
-Cut around 300-500 hz by 8-12 db, fairly narrow bandwidth to get out flub and boxiness
-Cut around 800-1200 hz by 3-5 db... more for the snare to cut than anything (let's you really get the kick up there in volume)
-Boost around 4-6 khz by 8-15 db for that bright slap (I hope your kick mic was isolated from the rest of the kit for this!)
-LP filter around 10 khz because you don't need much up there
Sony Oxford EQ works great for this. I usually do most of my kick tweaking using plugins because the SSL's EQ can't get precise enough for me and the Tube Tech PE1C doesn't sound right for (too much character) for radical EQ'ing.