From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
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Building healthy EQ strategies
From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
Building healthy EQ strategies
EQ is an extremely powerful tool for shaping the frequency balance of elements in a recording or mix. It can help bring things forward or push them back, allowing you to create or take away focus and highlight important elements while keeping others from being distracting. EQ can help repair poor recordings and make great ones sound even better. Here are some tips that I've learned over the years while mixing with EQ. I find that many inexperienced engineers don't have a goal in mind when they approach a mix. Because of this, they tend to wander around tinkering with elements out of context. Ultimately, this creates a muddled and uninteresting mix. I think you should have a plan and make a statement with your mix. Try to imagine you're finished mix before you start and use that as a template to push you forward. Try using reference mixes of other songs from a similar genre to inspire you and get the creative juices flowing. You'd be surprised at how easy your EQ decisions can be if…
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Get in the Mix: EQing FX returns4m 29s
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Using common vintage-modeled EQs5m 2s
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Using frequency analyzers3m 44s
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Using harmonic generators to excite frequency content5m 44s
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EQ or compression first?3m 3s
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EQ and room acoustics: Is your room lying to you?6m 15s
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Boost or cut? The relative nature of EQ and headroom4m
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Building healthy EQ strategies8m 57s
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