I'm recording my bands first full length album and I need some advice on EQ'ing. I'm currently recording in my home and using a 16 track home studio machine to get the tracks onto the computer, which I planed on using the free version of Audacity to mix/eq them. I need some advice on:

EQ'ing the kick drum, snare, and tom toms.

Eq for the guitar/bass

And I also need some help as to where to put the instruments on what frequency band. The Audacity program offers 0-50k Hz band. where should I put what instruments?

Here's all the instruments we use:

Drums: Kick, 4 Tom toms, snare, overhang cymbals.

Guitar: pretty heavily distorted (high gain)

Bass: standard bass guitar sound.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

nice1

Have you already recorded?

While i dont know much about Eqing i know everything needs to have its own sonic space. You never want to give more than one instrument a boost in the same area. Also guitars tend to have little to no EQing. So make sure the tone is good when you recorded. Usually for high gain recording you need to record it with a tad less than normal amount of gain because you will be double or tripple tracking it and the gain will show. Also the bass will give it the heavyness. In any case just google and experiment.

My biggest wonder was how to eq the kick drum and what proper Hz band to put it on.

For guitars and bass, I usually turn the bass and gain down a little more than usual on the guitar, and let the bass do it's job on the recording. I do not know much about drums tbh, can't really help ya there.

what does EQ mean?
and im guessing HZ means hertz or w/e

im gonna need to know info like this because i will be recording songs not too long from now

There is no standard it depends on what you want. Some people like the kick drum to be the lowest, some people like the bass to be the lowest. I like my kick drum to be very audible so i have my kick drum with a boost at 300-400. I have my bass boosted at 200-300.

lol @ ur name low self-esteem much?
jk >.<

Ok i will suggest this DO NOT i repete DO NOT record live drums at home it turns out really really bad and lowers the quallity of your song.

My band are recording our album useing computerised drums which i sit there and program in. (im the drummer) lol. its long and painfull but its worth it.

is it is it really?