From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
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Get in the Mix: Automating EQ
From the course: Audio Foundations: EQ and Filters
Get in the Mix: Automating EQ
Most songs contain a variety of different sections, as in verse, chorus, bridge, et cetera. It's fairly common for an engineer to have to automate a level of a track in a mix up or down to accomodate the new section's arrangement density. For example, I might have to turn up my vocal in the chorus as additional elements are added to the arrangement. I can use the same technique with e q for the same exact reason. Since e q is just a frequency specific level control, and most daws allow me to easily automate plug ins. I can automate bands of e q to boost or cut during certain sections of my mix. To better accomodate the sections elements. For example, during most of the songs I might want my guitar to complement the lead vocal by removing some of the frequencies that compete with the vocals intelligability. However during the guitar solo, the guitar becomes the lead instrument and has no vocal to compete with. So adding back or even boosting some of the same previously removed…
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Creating focus3m 47s
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Get in the Mix: Using EQ to fix problems and place elements in the mix8m 30s
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Get in the Mix: Creating complementary EQ curves9m 7s
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Get in the Mix: Creative EQ with the telephone effect5m 30s
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Get in the Mix: Frequency bracketing with filters5m 44s
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Get in the Mix: Automating EQ6m 18s
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Learning to listen3m 10s
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Balancing expectations from the recording process4m 7s
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