CHRIS SHEPARD: My name is Chris Shepard from Chicago Recording company. We’re located in downtown Chicago. We’ve been in business since 1975. We’ve got 14 studios, 9 posts, 3 music. We’re in Studio 5 today going over some of our equipment.

Below this we have the Pultecs, couple of Pultec equalizers. These are great for when you really crank it up 16 kHz or 12 kHz on something and you really want to air it out. What I would put that on a lot of times is the group from my background vocals or my cymbals if I’m tracking, music-saving those for the cymbals and putting them on overheads around 8kHz and really cranking up some of the high end on it, or maybe just trying to really get the open sound. Serious high ends, sometimes even just boost a little of the lows.

The thing that’s fun about these is the boost and attenuation. You get one frequency, let’s say on the low end you got 60 Hz, why would I want to boost and attenuate it? Well it makes it so that way there’s a certain curve to it. Once you play with it, you get an idea of what I mean. Sometimes you want to boost 6 dB and cut it by two. There’s just a certain curve that it makes.

On the high end, there is also in decay, the attenuation, is a separate frequency selection which makes it kind of cool to be able to add a lot of high end but kill the harsh frequency. The bandwidth control is huge on this. Lot of times when we try to zero it in you really want to figure out where it’s best and then open it back up and really grab a wide spectrum.

These are great enhancement tools. Not really good for trying to fix. These aren’t really fixers. These are enhancers.