Coursera

Berklee College of Music

Introduction to Music Production
Week 5


Eduardo Alejandro Motta Porras

Configuring an EQ in Logic Pro X

Hi! I am Eduardo Motta from Antigua, Guatemala, a small country in Central
America. Im an electrical engineer and studying music production has always been
my passion. This lesson is for week 5 of Introduction To Music Production at
Coursera.org. I will be teaching how to configure an EQ channel to function like a
largo format mixing EQ section in Logic Pro X
As we learned this week EQ is one of the most important elements in music
production. In the following assignment I will demonstrate the configuring of an EQ
plugin to function like a large format mixing console EQ section in Logic Pro X. I will
work with the settings shown in the material.


High pass filter, 75hz 18dB/OCT


High shelving filter



Mid-High Band pass filter





Low-Mid Band pass filter




Low shelving filter

Those are the basic elements we will show in the Channel EQ that comes with Logic
Pro X. Which is the following:

In the upper left corner we see a on button, that will be useful to bypass the EQ and
see the result. Next to it you can see a window that will give a variety of options. In
this window is where we can find a variety of pre sets for the EQ channel, included
your own. Here you can save as, if you want to use it later; but you also have the
option of Save As Default which will allow you to make the basic analog mixer
parameters you default as we learned in class. This is how to save the setting as a
preset in Logic Pro X.

High pass filter

As we can see here, this is a high pass filter
with more options than the one we find in a
mixing console. The curve in the upper left
corner is the activation element, if its red it
means that is activated and the high pass
filter is on. Down we have first the frequency
at which we want the filter to star
functioning, then we have how many dB will
be attenuated with each octave, this can be
see graphically with the two parallels bars
that surround the location point. And the last
element will give us the vertical position of
the point.

Low shelving filter

The high shelving filter will be the following
element from left to right, this element in
Logic Pro X will usually be in yellow, helping
differentiate between the two. As in the past
filter the definition box bellow will determine
for starters the frequency at which it will
start working, then the amount of dB youd
like to reduce or augment, and the ratio at
which the filter starts working.

Band pass filter (1,2,3 and 4)

The band pass filter in logic works with
the same three parameters as the
shelving filter did. The first one is the
frequency at which it will star to filter the
sound, then comes the attenuation or
augmentation and in the en the ratio at
which the filter will affect the frequency
spectrum. At the difference with an
analog mixer that might just have two of
these, in Logic Pro X we have 4 that we
can move as we desire.

High shelving filter

Our high shelving filter is of great
importance to be able to give presence of
focus to certain element; it works with
the same parameters as the low shelving
filter. After this one we can use a Low
pass filter to reduce hiss or some kind of
unwanted noise.

Final EQ

EQ controls
During this assignment we have been using our EQ with the graphics display, it can
also be displayed with controls, giving us more specific options for each filter, and
more options for the channel EQ in general. We can find it in the View menu in the
upper right corner.

Thank you for reviewing my homework for this week. I hope its useful for anyone
interested in using Logic Pro X. The channel EQ in Logic is great and easy to use, but
its important to understand how it works and the different options you might be
able to use.