Yamaha digital mixing studio 01x User Manual

01X   Owner’s Manual

The four-band EQ gives you comprehensive control over 

the tonal quality of the sound, yet unless you have a lot of 

mixing experience, you may be unsure just how and when 

to use EQ.

This is where the EQ Library comes in handy.  It gives you 

forty different preset EQ settings for a variety of common 

recording applications.  These include specific instru-

ments—even specific drums, such as bass drum and 

snare—as well as vocal applications and various guitar 

sounds.

Pick a preset that comes closest to your particular applica-

tion and see if it works.  If it needs tweaking, change the 

settings until you get the sound you want — you can then 

save your custom settings to one of the available memory 

space (see pages 36, 54).

The 01X features a variety of Libraries — Dynamics, 

Scene, Patch, Channel and Effect — containing custom 

settings for the mixer.  The operations (selecting presets, 

editing, saving, etc.) are the same for all the Libraries.  For 

details, see page 54.

● Hints on using EQ

• In general, cut rather than boost.  For example, if you 

want to make a sound brighter, try cutting the bass 
first.  This will not only emphasize the higher frequen-
cies, overall it will give you a cleaner mix.

• We recommend that you use the HPF on every 

sound source in your mix, except for kick drum, bass 
guitar and synth bass.  This will take out those bass 
frequencies you don’t need to hear, and give the 
ones you want to hear more sonic room—and make 
them sound more crisp and punchy.  

• You might also want to do the opposite — put LPF on 

bass sounds to cut out unnecessary highs.  Be care-
ful to use your ears, though.  You may rob a great 
sounding bass of its character by doing this (for 
example, slap bass or standup acoustic bass).

• Here’s an engineering trick you may want to try.  If 

there is some sound in a recorded track that bothers 
you, such as a buzz or a high-pitched whistle-like 
noise, you may be able eliminate it with the careful 
use of EQ.  Set Q to a relatively narrow value (0.80 or 
less) and boost the Gain at or near the maximum.  
Then, with the track playing, slowly adjust the Fre-
quency value until the offending sound is heard loud 
and clear.  Now, reduce the Gain until the noise dis-
appears and the track sounds the way you want it.

You can also use this trick— especially with the mid 
frequencies—to improve any instrument or vocal 
track that doesn’t sound quite right (but you’re not 
sure why).

• Remember that the frequency parameter for all of the 

EQ bands is FULLY adjustable.  This means you can 
use the ‘LOW’ EQ band as a second HIGH EQ, or 
vice versa—or even use all four bands on the high 
frequencies.