The cymbals recorded were to be extra flourishes and to add some ambient sounds, so I wanted them to have a dreamy, otherworldly feel. I used EQ to sculpt these tracks by cutting the high and low-end frequencies. The low end because I didn’t want it to interfere with the low end already present and the high end because of the melody line. Whilst doing this I decided to try and use EQ creatively instead of purely as a corrective tool. I ended up dipping some of the mid frequencies where the cymbals sat (roughly around 1.5kHz) which ended up giving them this dark, tonal quality and fit in quite nicely with the feel of the track. During client feedback, my lecturer had suggested removing this and allowing the cymbals to be brighter just to see if it would add anything. After auditioning both versions, we both ended up agreeing that my original processing worked best as the cymbals brightness stood out for then wrong reasons. I also used the Studio Reverb plugin this time on the large theatre setting and I turned up the amount it would be used in the mix.
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