For Home Studio Musicians and Producers Looking to Create Radio-Ready Music...
Learn How To Create Balance in Your Mixes and Separation Between Your Instruments so You Can Transform Your Muddy Demos into Professional, Radio-Ready Songs
Remember the last time you spent hours on your mix. Did you feel defeated by how muddy and weak it sounded?
You run into the same problems every time - and you're not the only one. You try to create depth, balance and separation in your songs, but you don't know how to make your mixes stand out and explode from the speakers like your favorite songs.
You can't fit all the instruments together because you don't know where they sit in the frequency range.
You clutter up your low-end because the bass constantly clashes with your kick drum.
You don't know how to separate the guitars from each other so they just sound like a muddy mess.
And most importantly, you can't get that big present vocal sound you hear from your favorite artists. You're fed up with mixing vocals because they never sound professional enough.
Mixing feels like a never-ending balancing act. When you focus on the low-mids, your mix sounds muddy. Whenever you add high-end, your mix sounds harsh.
You don't know how much you should boost or cut frequencies to get the sound you hear in your head. You've tried all sorts of different techniques you've read in blogs or watched on Youtube, but the more you jump from one trick to another, the more contradictory the advice feels. Some people tell you that you should only use subtractive EQ, even though you feel like boosting makes everything sound better.
The problem is, you're scared of damaging your mix because you're never sure whether you're doing the right things to make your mixes clean and present.
You wish somebody would just tell you where the EQ sweet spots were so you could move on. Instead, they say you should only use this plug-in, or that method, when all you want is real, actionable advice.
Even when you know for a fact that you're making your mix sound better, you can't stop EQ'ing because you never know when you're done!
I understand your frustrations completely. I've been there.
In case you don't know me, I'm Björgvin Benediktsson. I'm an author, musician and audio educator and I have taught thousands of home studio musicians and engineers how to produce commercial quality music since 2009.
When I first started out, I had no idea how to use an EQ to make clearer mixes. EQ was like a foreign programming language that only cool engineers understood.
But me? My kick drum kept clashing with my bass guitar. My guitars masked the vocals and my entire drum sound always sounded like a harsh, exhausting mess.
If I managed to tame the harshness in my mix, it usually ended up muddy instead.
Here's the story of when I learned how important EQ was to make better sounding mixes:
I didn't always know how to EQ....I used to really suck at it.
Way back in 2006, I randomly found myself hired as sound engineer at this small venue called The Old Library. It was a cool spot, but it had a terrible reputation for its sound. It was the venue bands were forced to play if there was absolutely nowhere else to go.
Little did they know that they weren't exactly hiring someone who knew what he was doing.
I was extremely intimidated by everything surrounding live sound. All these cables all over the place that you were supposed to know how to connect. All these speakers everywhere, both the monitors on the stage and the P.A for the audience that I was supposed to control. Not to mention the blinking lights of the mixing board.
In a word, overwhelming.
However, all of those things paled in comparison to figuring out how to use the simple, four-band EQ on the mixer.
I had no idea how - or where - I should boost or cut frequencies to make the bands sound better. So I used the only method available to me then: Trial and Error.
Learning to EQ by desperately twiddling knobs back and forth in a dimly lit venue isn’t the best way to learn to EQ. I could hardly see what I was doing!
So, because I didn’t have a clue, there was a lot of fumbling around in the dark. Sure, any time I tweaked the EQ, the sound of the mix changed.
Sometimes for the better, but most of the time for the worse.
After a while, I learned that understanding frequencies was like learning the right chord progression for a song, or the right scales to use during a solo.
Understanding frequencies was like having a cheat sheet for making your mixes sound good.
But it wasn't until I had spent hours behind that mixing board and studied what each frequency sounded like that I finally got it:
EQ is the most important mixing processor for creating separation and balance in your mixes.
EQ helped me transform that music venue from its reputation for having terrible sound to becoming an in-demand spot where all the coolest bands wanted to play.
But I wouldn't have been to able to make those shows sound so great if it wasn't for the EQ. Understanding EQ wasn’t a choice, it was a necessity.
I learned that EQ can help you in any situation, whether you're doing live sound or recording music in your home studio.
Since then I've learned a lot about EQ'ing my mixes to make them sound cleaner. Now, musicians tell me they love how clearly they can hear each instrument in the mix.
I've learned how to wipe the mud off the even the busiest mixes, leaving them clean, clear and professional.
Today, my kick drum doesn't clash with the bass guitar anymore. Instead, they work like a well-oiled rhythm machine, keeping the mix clean and thick in the low-end. I know exactly how to EQ the instruments out of the way of the vocal, while keeping everything clean and present.
When you learn how to EQ, the rest of the mix easily falls into place. Once you've learn how to fix the EQ problems, your mixing skills will skyrocket!
That's what happened to me, and that's what I want to help you accomplish as well
All it takes is a little knowledge and a blueprint of where to go.
What if I told you that you're so close to figuring the frequency spectrum out?
You want to carve EQ pockets for your instruments? With only a few EQ tweaks you can finally get your instruments to really punch through.
You'll be able to add definition to your tracks and make everything fit together for a cleaner mix.
Even if you're only a hobbyist, you still need to know how to create a balance between your drums and bass; vocals and guitars; the highs and lows.
Once you learn how to EQ, you can wipe out the boxiness and mud from your mixes.
Forget about thin sounding vocals, boomy bass or harsh guitars! With the correct EQ moves you can make every instrument sound exactly the way you want it to.
- EQ helps you create punchy low-end and sparkling highs.
- EQ helps you separate guitars and vocals so that you hear them distinctly in all their detail.
- EQ cleans up your low-end, making the kick drum and the bass help other fill out the lows instead of clashing to create a muddy mix.
In short, EQ clears up your mix and creates a full frequency balance.
And you know what? I have the only thing you need to achieve that.
“EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ”
The Only EQ Guide You Need to Create Balanced Mixes That Transform Your Amateur Demos Into Professional Records
EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ is your step by step guide to use EQ to take your mixes to the next level and finally get that truly professional sound.
EQ doesn't have to be a mystery so let me show you how to master it. Don't learn behind a mixing board in a badly lit live venue like I did, with trial and error and randomly twisting knobs until "something" sounded "just ok..." This guide will teach you everything I’ve learned since then, in a much more comfortable setting.
You'll know exactly where your instruments are clashing, making any EQ problem easy to fix. Once you master EQ, you'll be able to create space and separation between all the instruments in your mix.
So if you want to master the art of EQ'ing, look no further. Once you've learned how EQ works and where you can fix the problem areas in your mix, your mixing skills will skyrocket!
- In-Depth Reference Book: 100 page PDF with in-depth techniques on how to understand EQ to create separation between your instruments and balance in your mixes. Reference these pages every time you're EQ'ing and you'll get better mixes in less time.
- Video Course: A complete video course with frequency-by-frequency breakdown of the complete EQ spectrum, teaching you exactly what each frequency "sounds like," and in-depth walkthroughs on how to fix your mixes, as well as how to find the flattering frequencies to make your tracks jump out of the speakers.
- Practical Techniques for Both Beginner and Advanced Engineers: Whether you're just starting out or have been working in the industry for a while you'll get easy to use, practical EQ tips you can use right away to improve your mixes.
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"An immediate and hugely practical understanding of the frequency spectrum and fantastic examples of positive and negative aspects of the key audio frequency bands as related to achieving better mixes. A superbly comprehensive and humorously written book by someone with lots of of a practical experience, that beats many video tutorials on this subject. Plus you can have a comprehensively indexed pdf to hand for quick referencing while mixing without needing to fire up a video tutorial and scrub through the timeline hoping to find what you're looking for! I was a beta reader for the eBook and I liked the content so much I bought the full course!"
"Bjorgvin knows what we need to know, and he shares it all, in easy to understand, easy to digest bites. Bjorgvin explains filtering, boosting, cutting, notch filters, bell curves, and “Q”, how to “sweep” or find frequencies that need cutting, and so much more, and all of it in very good detail, with audio examples. “EQ Strategies for EQ’ing a song”...This important video is an hour of deep EQ teaching, so please do not skip this part! Bjorgvin opens up a real multi track session and goes through the tracks, one at a time, and explains exactly what each EQ is doing. Bjorgvin begins with a quick “before and after” play, without EQ and then with EQ, just to demonstrate how powerful EQ really is. The difference is nothing short of incredible. Bjorgvin is a great teacher, too, and that really lends to the level of training that is unfolding here inside EQ Strategies. If you are trying to wrap your head around EQ, how to apply EQ in order to get way better tracks and much better sounding complete songs, EQ Strategies is what you are looking for."
The EQ tips that have helped the most have to do with the bass guitar and kick drum. I'm able to get a clean and tight low end on this song I'm working on. I cut some of the mud out of the kick and bass, then I let the kick have a little extra 50 Hz and added a little bit around 800 Hz on the bass guitar. That made the low end clear and punchy. This song has an acoustic guitar as one of the main instruments and I decided to put a HPF up to 200 Hz and added a little bit around 3 kHz and and it sounds good so far. This is a great guide to get things moving in the right direction!!! Thank You!!!!
What Will You Learn From Your Ultimate Guide to EQ?
Your Ultimate Guide to EQ will transform your EQ knowledge from an Unsure Amateur to a Skilled Pro.
How EQ Works and Frequency Characteristics
How to Use EQ Effectively in Your Mixes
How to Use EQ to Make Your Drums Punchy and Powerful
How to EQ a Bass That’s Thick and Powerful
How to Add Weight, Body, and Presence to Guitars Using EQ
How to Make Pianos, Keyboards, Horns and Strings Sound Great
How to Make Your Vocals Cut Through the Mix With Presence and Power
How to EQ the Mix Together and Create Separation Between All the Instruments of a Busy Mix
The Ultimate EQ Guide is helping me immensely! I am new to mixing but have been in many studios as a recording musician. It's helping me clean up muddy mixes and get more punch out of my recordings. I highly recommend it!
I like the specific EQ tips for each instrument. They're all very helpful and I learned quite a few new things: bass harmonics, how to make the beaters pop on kick drums, adding more punch to snare drums, and tips to make guitars sit better in the mix (which also works for lead synths).
The HD Video Package Takes Your Ultimate Guide Even Further
In addition, the video packages go along with what you learn in the guide and are designed to improve your EQ skills immediately.
Video Course to the Frequency Spectrum
Video 1 - Frequency Overview Presentation: Where I talk you through every part of the EQ spectrum and where you can find such things as muddiness, boxiness, weight, presence, shimmer, sheen, sibilance and air to name a few area.
Video 2 - Frequency Vocabulary Video: Where I show you exactly where these words are in the frequency spectrum and what they sound like.
So now, instead of aimlessly wandering around your EQ plug-in you can actually learn where your problematic frequencies are when you need to fix them.
Video 3 - EQ Plug-in Breakdown and EQ'ing Fundamentals: This is for all those beginners that are confused with how an EQ works. I show you the basics of how you can transform your mixes from muddy messes to clean and powerful songs.
Knowing when to boost, cut and filter is invaluable to making all the instruments in your mix fit together. We go through the EQ plug-in to help you understand exactly how every parameter, setting and knob works.
Plus: 1-Hour Mix Walkthrough Using EQ
Video 4 - The EQ Strategies course ends with an hour long video session where I take a completely unmixed song and show you how amazing you can make your rough mix sound using JUST EQ!
Follow along every step of the way as I use EQ to clean up the mix and create separation between all the instruments.
We'll take the rough mix from this:
To this:
Of course, EQ isn't the only thing you need to create a final mix, but it's amazing how effective it is at creating separation so that you can hear every instrument clearly.
Here are some of the things you'll learn inside the EQ walkthrough:
- How to EQ kick drums to get rid of muddy resonances while keeping them thick and punchy
- Using filters to reduce bleed on drums to create a tighter drum sound
- EQ'ing overheads and room mics to make the compliment the overall drum sound
- EQ'ing groups of both acoustic and electric guitars to give each one their own space in the frequency spectrum
- How to use EQ presets on instrument groups to your advantage with some minor tweaking
- Using a bass amp simulator in addition to EQ to make the bass cut through the mix
- Using mid/side EQ on backing vocals to make room for the lead vocals in a dense vocal mix
- The importance of using EQ on reverbs to avoid cluttering up your mix
"The impression I got from the Course, and from your site in general, is that you are one of the rare few who has both the ability to understand complex technical concepts and the ability to effectively communicate them in common, every day language. A few of the tips I got from the course really did make a noticeable difference in a couple of projects I am working on. The course gave me a good sense of your style and the fact that there so much useful information for free led me to believe that the stuff you have to pay for must be really great (which I later found to be true)...I am very impressed with everything. The quality of the material is fantastic and the publications are beautiful. The graphics, the layout, the videos are all very impressive. It really is a lot for the money and I am really excited about learning. Thank you very much."
Video 5: How to EQ Brass
If you've ever had to mix a horn section, it has its own separate set of challenges. If you've ever wondered how to get rid of the tinny harshness of a trumpet, smooth out a sexy saxophone solo, or add air and brightness to a flute, this video will show you how.
Video 6: How to EQ Strings
Learn how to bring out the thickness of the cellos, the lushness of the violas and the air of the violins. If you're struggling to smooth out the edginess of a string section, this video will help you make your beautiful string arrangements fill out your mix.
Free Bonus #1: How to Make Radio-Ready Records With Easy Mastering EQ Tricks ($19)
This guide explains the difference between EQ during the mixing and mastering phase. It shows you all the methods to keep in mind, as well as the mistakes to avoid when you're using EQ while mastering.
Free Bonus #2: 10 Ways to Use Compression Effectively ($39)
EQ and compression go hand in hand to create great mixes.
Those two processors will take your mixes from rough recordings to punchy mixes.
Included in your EQ Strategies package is a free Compression Masterclass that teaches you ten different ways to use compression to make punchier and tighter mixes.
"The EQ Course was eye opening in many ways. Having had basically no previous information on mixing, the course really gave me a sense of how essential EQ'ing is to the process. It helped me take my mixes from muddy and boomy to fairly clear, and definitely helped me get some punch into kicks and basses. Some really basic things that i hadn't even considered, which really changed the way i approach music: like EQ'ing the reverb and delay effects themselves to avoid conflicts on different frequencies...it does an effective job of squeezing much information into little time, and the formulations are clear and pedagogical. The amount of useful information i gained from the course was impressive and I am extremely grateful for having been given these gems!"
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As with all of the Audio Issues products, EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ comes with a 100% risk-free money-back guarantee.
I promise that following the workflow inside my training will help you create more professional mixes from your home studio. After taking my training you'll know exactly what to do to create separation and balance in your mixes so you can hear all of your instruments and tracks clearly..
There is a reason my students have told me that my training has "instantly improved their mixes." Your fans will love the new professional sounds you're releasing, and you'll impress every new client that comes to your studio because you'll easily show them how good you can make them sound.
You can even read the materials and watch the videos before you make up your mind. You can try all the tricks and keep the training for a full year before deciding whether you like them or not. If at any point you decide that my training didn't skyrocket the quality of your productions, simply email me for a full refund, no questions asked or strings attached!
"I take my guarantee very seriously. I am not interested in keeping your money if you do not get any value from what I'm creating for you.
So if you’re not happy, I’m not happy."
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The format helped me solidify the basics very quickly. I sampled a few sessions with the concepts and found an immediate and pronounced improvement. Full of tips that are immediately useful...the initial results are immediate and impressive....thanks.
No Boring Theory, Just Practical Tips to Create Separation and Balance in Your Mixes so You Can Elevate Your Home Studio Demos to Professional, Radio-Ready Productions.
"It helped me obtain a more full and natural mix - thank you! I'm now en route to making my mixes sparkle and sound professional."