From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters

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Building healthy EQ strategies

Building healthy EQ strategies

From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters

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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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