Where's the air? part I

An effect that can be lovely on a voice, depending on the song, is to have a nice sheen about it. “Air,” it’s sometimes called. That glossy, shiny sound.

So, where’s that frequency? It’s lower than you might think.

Try boosting at 10000Hz, with a Q of 1.5.

Does that seem low to you? I know from talking with a lot of diy recordists that, in their mind, voc…