Melodyne's Unique EQ

[bitflipper]

I fiddled with Melodyne's EQ window for about 10 minutes back when the feature was first added, intending to go back and explore further. I never did. But today this video was recommended to me and I am now inspired to revisit it.

 

[Grem]

I have tried it but could not get my head wrapped around it. Just didn't understand the concept.

Now, I did not read the manual concerning the EQ use at all. So... I will give the video a watch!!

[mettelus]

That is a good find. I admit I totally blew off ever delving into some of the nuances that got added into Melodyne, but some of what he is doing in this video is very similar to what Scaler EQ focuses on. There are definitely differences between the two, and I am assuming this is geared more towards post-production only.

Ironically, my biggest "complaint" going from 3 Editor to 5 Studio was it takes 5-6 times longer to open an entire score (commercial master) so I always hoped for a "bypass" option for the added "note manipulations" I never seem to touch.

[bitflipper]

Although I am a longtime Melodyne user - going back to version 1 with a now-discontinued 8-track version called Cre8 - I use it so rarely that every session sees me re-learning many fundamentals. It's a deep application. Did you know you can also use it for compression? 

[treesha]

I had messed around with the eq features before but didn’t really get it, so the video examples helped me to see the different ways it can be useful. Always more to learn about melodyne. 

[reginaldStjohn]

I have used it a few times to reduce nasal sounding vocal words and to make a backing vocal sound unique since I was singing all the parts

[mibby]

I wonder if I can do this with Melodyne Assistant?   I agree, Melodyne is pretty impressive software, but also equally unintuitive - at least for me. 

This makes me think of Scaler EQ over a PluginBoutique.

https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/2-Effects/16-EQ/11473-Scaler-EQ

 

[bitflipper]

11 hours ago, mibby said:

can do this with Melodyne Assistant? 

Unfortunately, this is part of the "Sound Editor" feature, which is available only in the Studio edition. Here's a comparison of features between each version.

[Shane_B.]

This or something very similar to it is in Melda's AutoDynamic EQ. You can even put an overlay of a keyboard on the screen iirc.

I've used it more for repairing bad samples and recordings I made, but not a lot. It's very easy to mess things up with this for an amateur like me.

[bitflipper]

3 hours ago, Shane_B. said:

It's very easy to mess things up with this

Fortunately, CTL-Z works for every edition of Melodyne.

Which of course doesn't prevent a truly motivated user from screwing things up. I have some old projects from when I was first finding my way around Melodyne to prove it.

[Grem]

That was a good video. Thanks Bit

[Gswitz]

I've really only used it to learn parts from recordings. 

I never managed a result I liked more than the original. 

Feed it this and see what it says.  Lol.

 

Edited September 17 by Gswitz

[Shane_B.]

8 hours ago, bitflipper said:

Fortunately, CTL-Z works for every edition of Melodyne.

Which of course doesn't prevent a truly motivated user from screwing things up. I have some old projects from when I was first finding my way around Melodyne to prove it.

I always liked V-Vocal. I got pretty good results with it very easily. Not to say I don't like Melodyne.

I took an old recording a few years ago and did an entire key change on the second half of the song and it's impossible to tell it was done with software.

My problem is I've always had a terrible listening environment when mixing. I could never really hear the full effect of changes until I got in my truck.

I think I'm at least one version behind on Melodyne. I can't wait to get a studio set up, get everything upgraded, and dive back in to it. I'm going to have to upgrade my PC too. Oh darn. 😁

[GTsongwriter]

Another reason you don't need Scaler EQ..

LOL.. Since I already own Melodyne Studio!

[Triangleman]

Thanks - always fun to find something new in something you already have.  

I tried it out on an organ/vocal idea I'd recorded a few weeks back and for whatever reason the organ (Kronos cx3) was probably the first 4 drawbars all the way up and nothing else and super chunky.  It was a much more softer and sweeter idea that needed thinner organ and I put Melodyne on it and used the harmonics button and that 3rd slider (which is odd/even in this mode) and it was just like moving the drawbars and didn't sound like EQ at all.  

Then I went all out and started moving everything around and it got into this weird flute sound with a bit of a throbbing to it - put some heavy reverb on it and it was instant ambience.