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eq'ing an instrumental, killing those highs

MickeyBreezy	Date: May 26, 2007 @ 1:43 PM i have a beat that i like alot, but the hi-hat is unbearably loud in the mix. i dont have the original session it was made on to just turn it down, so my question is: is there any way to use an eq to lower the sound of a hi-hat without compromising the sound of the rest of the beat. im not sure what frequency i need to tweak, mainly because i dont really understand eq's that much. any help would be fantastic.
Opossum	Date: May 26, 2007 @ 3:34 PM If the hi-hat is actually a lot louder, then there's not much you can do. You can experiment with notching out a higher range, though, but if it was mixed with the lower ranges left in (not rolled off prior to mix-down), there will still be the volume issue. Of course, if the hat is outstandingly high, you can actually remove the higher range completely, but that might muddy the sound of the other instruments. There is a way you can do it with a manual filter (algorithm) but would probably be too much of a bother; it would involve a binary NOT'ing of the sound data of the high range only than XOR'ed with the original recording, but don't get me started on that (because you have to write the specific code based on the range).
Veracohr	Date: May 26, 2007 @ 7:22 PM With an EQ band to have a narrow bandwidth, give it a fairly big boost and sweep it up and down until the main range of the hi hat jumps out at you. Then cut out that range to whatever extent you desire. Adjust the bandwidth to get the best sound after you've cut. It's not as good as being able to remix the drums, but it's about as good as you'll get.
MickeyBreezy	Date: May 26, 2007 @ 11:15 PM good enough, thank you for your help, i'll try that untill i get the original session.
LegoBreaks	Date: May 27, 2007 @ 4:36 PM Use something like waves c4 or ozone, that has a equalizer compressor. Once you've worked out the freq range(s) that the high hat is most occupying compress just that/those range(s). This way you could potentially salvage the high frequencies whilst the high hat is not being hit. Just an idea, getting hold of the original session would be much better of course.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: May 27, 2007 @ 4:39 PM The range the hat is usually most prominent in is 8-15 Khz. If you have it on seperate track try cutting your EQ on that range. If you only have a stereo mix, then it's more of a problem as like opossum said, if you cut this range, you will reduce the hat but also any other high frequency information for the rest of the track and that part of the spectrum is usually used to brighten up a mix, so your mix could sound a bit dull, depending on the frequency range of the mix (if it's say, drums, bass and vocals/rapping only there shouldn't be too much in the 10-15 Khz range anyway).
tsand20175	Date: May 27, 2007 @ 7:38 PM ...from what I understand, a parametric EQ might be good for this....
Opossum	Date: May 28, 2007 @ 10:51 AM I was also going to recommend this, but it has a tendency to crash or not render correctly now and then (depending greatly on what else you use with it, though), but still worth having on hand: It's called BugPass, and is at: http://www.betabugsaudio.com/plugs.php
DeadraveN	Date: May 28, 2007 @ 5:01 PM just re-record and remix everything except the hihats, then layer that over the original track 50/50. yes. I'm joking.

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