Got this question from a reader: In some of your emails you briefly mentioning balancing tracks. Of course, I understand that’s the first thing and I’m wondering if you have any articles pertaining to balancing (leveling?) tracks. Is there something you focus on before you begin EQ and Compression? Balancing tracks is the fundamental starting...
Got a simple EQ trick for you today. I didn’t have time to throw a video together but I still think it’s a nice tip to use when you want some extra punch from your snare drum. Here’s the screenshot of an EQ setting I used on a snare the other day: A couple things...
Getting a rough mix going is half the battle. Once you’ve got all your tracks balanced together with levels, EQ, compression and space you’re already 80% there. Remember the 80/20 rule. 20% of the effort creates 80% of the results. So here’s the step by step process that will get you 80% done with your mixes....
In this One Minute EQ Trick the actual trick is making sure you don’t go overboard with your EQ’ing. Don’t just EQ because you think you should be EQ’ing. Have a reason for it. If the track was recorded really well sometimes all you need is some filtering and resonance cuts. And sometimes almost nothing...
In this One Minute EQ Trick the actual trick overboard with your EQ’ing. Don’t just EQ because you think you should be EQ’ing. Have a reason for it. If the track was recorded really well sometimes all you need is some filtering and resonance cuts. And sometimes almost nothing at all. And of course, EQ’ing...
In this One Minute EQ Trick I show you how to use a low-pass filter with a high Q value to filter out your unnecessary high-end while still making your guitars cut through the mix. This is great if you have a distorted or overdriven sound. There might be a lot of hiss you can...
In this One Minute EQ Trick video I show you one of the most basic, but also most important, EQ techniques available to you. Using a high-pass filter to clear up your low-end. This is important for making the bass have its own space in a you have a busy arrangement full of guitars and...
In today’s One Minute EQ Trick I show you the simplest way to get rid of offending frequencies. Whether it’s weird resonances from a snare, a nasal sound from a vocal or a boomy tone from a bass this technique is the only one you need to make your EQ’ing faster and easier. It’s a...
This is one of the tricks I show you inside the EQ Strategies One Hour Mix Walkthrough, but I thought I’d condense it down and give you the cliff notes. Instead of just using a normal stereo EQ cut in the high-mids on the backing vocals in order to give the lead vocal some room...
I just published a new video in the weekly video content inside the Playground Premium area(http://playground.crowdaudio.com). It’s all about getting my drums to sound like this: Your browser does not support the audio tag. If you don’t want to join, no problem, I’ll still tell you my biggest mistakes when it came to that drum...