Q: hey bill, i'm suddenly in charge of editing a song together and i don't really know what i'm doing. do you have any advice on what to do with the equalizer effect? that's the thing that i'm having the most trouble figuring out on my own so far.
A: here's the thing: don't use it if you don't need it. but if you are curious about what it does, go ahead and turn all the low frequencies down, and leave the high ones up. then listen. then put it back, and then turn the high frequencies down, and keep the low ones up. now listen. i think you will now understand exactly what it does. (you may recall this from knobs on a music player for 'treble' and 'bass', but this is the more detailed version of that.) So now, if you listen to something, and you notice it has too much low, or too much high, or not enough low or not enough high, etc etc, now you might now what to do. but please don't use it if the sound already sounded fine. that's the golden rule