High-pass filter
A filter that passes frequencies above its setting and removes those below it, used to clear unwanted low end.
Most guitar sounds carry more low-frequency energy than the mix needs, and that energy competes with bass and kick drum for space. A high-pass filter set somewhere between eighty and two hundred hertz removes the rumble and the boom without altering the part's character, and it is one of the first moves in almost every mix. On an amplifier or pedal the same control often appears as a low cut, and on a guitar's tone stack it is what the bass control does in reverse.
Example: Rolling off everything below a hundred hertz on a rhythm guitar part to stop it fighting the bass guitar is a high-pass filter.
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