Boosting bass on audio track on FCP 5

One of the great things about fcp is that it's nondestructive. Play around with the eq effects. It's really not difficult. You might also try bringing the track into soundtrack pro.

Well, listening to someone say "this effect, this setting" is a great way to F up a project and lose a client. Especially with something as subjective as EQ.

You've already wasted more time waiting for someone to hold your hand than you would have spent "messing around" with an EQ setting.

I could tell you "this effect, this setting," but that would be based on something that is (probably) completely different from the file you're trying to EQ.

EQ is the color correction of audio. EQ, like color correction, reacts subjectively to the material it is placed on.

So, like the previous poster said, get in there and play around.

Not helpful?

Ok, here's how you do it:

Add an AUGraphicEQ filter and use these settings:

20.0 Hz: 20
25.0 Hz: 20
31.5 Hz: 20
40.0 Hz: 20
50.0 Hz: 20
63.0 Hz: 20
80.0 Hz: 20
100.0 Hz: 20
125.0 Hz: 20
160.0 Hz: 20
200.0 Hz: 0
250.0 Hz: 0
315.0 Hz: 0
400.0 Hz: 0
500.0 Hz: 0
630.0 Hz: 0
800.0 Hz: 0
1000.0 Hz: 0
1250.0 Hz: -20
1600.0 Hz: -20
2000.0 Hz: -20
2500.0 Hz: -20
3150.0 Hz: -20
4000.0 Hz: -20
5000.0 Hz: -20
6300.0 Hz: -20
8000.0 Hz: -20
10000.0 Hz: -20
12000.0 Hz: -20
16000.0 Hz: -20
20000.0 Hz: -20


That should boost your bass.

I'll send you the invoice.

Dame:

Check this link about A Beginner's Guide to Final Cut Pro's Audio Filters.
You'll find the topic Issue #1 - "Excessive Hiss - Use 3 Band EQ's". Use it as reference, use that filter on your audio and increase lower frequencies till you feel happy with the result.

As Michael said that's non destructive. Your original audio is allways safe and you can delete/change the filsters as you want.

Before mastering your movie, you can export a part of the audio as AIFF and create an audio CD to test it on other equipment/CD player to check if it's good (I don't know what monitor audio system you have in your edition station).

And learn from the examples, too much caffeine is no good for people. ;D

Hope that helps!


Alberto

thrillcat has earned the right to express his opinion. I couldn't waste the energy to say the same thing. I figured maybe you could read between the lines. Guess I was wrong.

What I expressed is a cold, hard fact. Applying and adjusting an eq filter is the quick fix. If you want the more exact way of doing it, send it to an audio post facility and have them master it.

FCP is not a car stereo. There is no presets for "country/pop/jazz/talk/rock." You simply have to add an EQ filter and adjust it until it sounds right to you.

I'm not trying to blast anyone. I'm simply trying to relay the fact that there is no setting anyone can give you that will properly EQ footage that we haven't heard.

As for my background, in addition to my video knowledge, I have performed, recorded, engineered, & produced major label music releases. I have worked in world class recording studios with world class talent. Do I know it all? No. But I do know enough to advise you that there is no setting that anyone could give you to EQ your project properly without hearing it first.

Fair enough. Good luck at finding someone else to hold your hand with your attitude.

and sound like it's being played through river mud ... lol.

x

"I taught myself to edit on Avid years ago and moved over FCP 4 years ago and taught myself again"

For somebody who has obviously been spending many years "teaching"... I can't help but visualise your learning curve resembling a straight-line-to-infinity if you don't know how to EQ your sound by now.