EQ Before Or After Compression?

When mixing music, should you EQ before or after you compress? Should the EQ or compressor go first in the plugin chain? You'll find out in this quick explainer video!

Compressor plugin used in the video: ShaperBox 3's Compressor Tool

[_TheViewer_]

Love the two EQ-Technique ! One for tailoring, one for shaping, easy to get for me 👌

[Jimbodawg]

This is actually valuable knowledge for producers. A godsend, this channel is!

[forevergloaming]

me with 25 EQs and 4 compressors all randomly dispersed on a single track :

[SeverinoSE]

I’m so glad I found this. Not only did you answer the question I had but you also did so very clearly, which is important to beginners like me. Thanks!

[ScottThePisces]

Ive found compressing can bring back the lows that you just high pass filtered out, so ive started eqing before and after

[JazzyFizzleDrummers]

You can also do opposite boosts and cuts before and after the comp to add some saturation and glue to specific frequency ranges. A common one is doing that with an LA-2A on a parallel send to add some harmonics and consistency to the upper mids of the vocals without worrying about phase shift too much.

[woffyreal]

this is why i eq before even thinking about compressing! it sounds perfect every time!

[tdoto]

I’ve been doing tonal eq before compression and now you’ve lain it out like that it does make sense, I’ve always thought of it as all eq before or all eq after compression. I’ll have to try this out

[bicrome]

If your compressor has a side-chain filter, then use it! It helps to control how the compressor reacts, but not the sound :D

[ilkeryasinyildiz]

Subtractive & cleaning before comp, additive and tone shaping after comp.

[Specificore]

Your tips are always to the point and helpful

[BodyOfPlayMusic]

Great technique, very thoughtful process.

[Hickzy]

Yet more great advice, the content on this channel is stellar!

[laser_uhhhh]

i dont even know half of the words this guy is saying and for some reason i like to watch this channel

[alex.florin.prod_shorts]

Great advice! It's exactly how I do it. Keep up the good work!

[calumrife]

Brilliant. Confirmed what I thought about this in a succinct explanation. Thank you!

[ambientdave]

That's a neat idea, I will try this approach!
Makes perfect sense!

[Cheezus]

I was like "both" and then yes, you do that :)

[SQRT]

Thank you so much really good technique, will definitly use it 😁

[macDaddy]

I feel like this is the more standard technique but you can also get some good results with compressor first