It seems like the cymbals have too much treble and have an ear cracking sound when the track it turned up. Is there any way to give them a warm sound, and get that bleeding treble out? Thanks --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a

Apart from tape saturation, I might suggest apart from obviously playing with eq, to remove any "nasties", you might consider a limiter of some sort to impose an artificial threshold on transients. You'll want a very fast attack to catch them on the way in, with a slower release. I can strongly recommend the limiter in the Blue Tubes Pack. LM 2S, I believe. With the eq, create a very narrow bell in one of the parametric eq sections of the channel eq in Logic. Crank it up as high as you can (+24) and sweep along the frequency range until it resonates/feeds back. Play with the width of the bell to catch the offensive range, then pull it down to a negative value to suit. You will often notice the resonance is in tune with the track, and also watch out for harmonics. If you have trouble at 1.6, you may find 800 and 3.2 and 6.4 are problem areas also. Not always though. Remember to A/B often as you can remove things you do want as well as those you don't if you're too aggressive. That is basic subtractive eq. If you are using samples, I might suggest another sample. If they have been recorded, next time watch out for these things on input. Good luck Cheers Clive Young

> It seems like the cymbals have too much treble and have an ear cracking sound when the track it turned up. Is there any way to give them a warm sound, and get that bleeding treble out? If the offending peak is in the initial transient, try this: Copy the cymbal track and put a negative delay on the copy track so that it plays early. Set it to "No Output". Insert a compressor (or limiter) into your original cymbal track and use the copy track as a side chain to trigger the compressor. That way you will catch the transients that would otherwise be too fast for the compressor. If the offending peak is not in the transient, then set one band of your channel eq to a steep bell, and whack up its gain. sweep around between 2-10k until the frequency you don't like really leaps out. then reverse the gain. Or for a more subtle effect do the copy method as above (but without the negative delay) and apply your offensive eq to the copy track. This makes the compressor frquency conscious and the cymbal track will only gt compressed where the offending frequency appears. RJ Film Muisc OXFORD UK