How EQ Changes Phase | 1 FREE Mastering SECRET You Need to Know!

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[Allnaijabeats]

You can never truly be a pro engineer without understanding these concepts. This is the clearest explanation of phase shifting I have ever seen. Thank you!

[abrotherinchrist]

The more I learn about audio engineering the more I realize how much money I've wasted on plugins that I don't really understand. Truly, all audio comes down to frequency and amplitude within the domain of time. You could potentially do just about anything you want with just a stock EQ and versatile analyzer if you understand how these basic elements work together to create FX we call chorus, delay, phase shift, pitch shift, etc. Thanks for making us all better audio enthusiasts and engineers by taking us back to the basics.

[NikolausBrocke]

This is such a great channel for all who take mixing and mastering serious, whether your're a pro or a enthusiastic homerecorder.

[decon]

I’m blessed to have found this channel tbh. I know this channel is gonna be huge one day. People sleeping on these videos

[dulmin_]

Weeks/months ago, I posted a comment asking for a video explaining phase issues of EQ, and you replied saying you would make it in the future.
Thanks for keeping the promise 😍😍😍


I still didn't understand the direct reason why EQing cause phase shifts. Nevertheless, all these explanations about their audible results, and solutions, etc. are really informative. THANK YOU!

[Tjorpas]

As a producer, you can spend hours using dC offset, stereo imagers, flangers/phasers/choruses, regular LCR-panning etc, to get your stereo image where you want it. You might even get it to work and sound good BOTH in mono and stereo. The thing with "fancy phase-magic" is that it is often only noticed by either people who themselves make music - or by the people with the expensive sound systems/headphones. The common consumer of music usually listens to music through either in-ears, non flat shitty beatboxes that are sometimes just straight mono (btw!) or just through their laptop speakers or gaming-headphones.

What I'm trying to tell you with all this is because of the above stated facts makes it very risky to fuck with phase. The mix engineer or the master engineer is going to slam a phase-corrector (like a linear EQ) and just throw all that hard phasing-work you did out the window because that is going to get lost in transmission when people are using sound systems not capable of making sense of the signal.

And believe me. Listening to a wide, magically phase-choreographed mix, with a perfect balance between all points of its stereo image, on a system that is sub-par or just cheap, or for that case IN MONO. It can sound like half of the song got sliced out. This is what so many people struggle to understand!!! Don't mess with phase or dithering because if you get a placement, some other engineer (if not the mix/master-guy then the recording engineer for the artist) is going to hear that phase being not how it should and slam it linear... all good and safe... and boring... but that's a bulletproof way of ensuring ur mixes don't gets lost between different listening mediums.

[oswaldokatz]

10 years ago i mastered some tracks with Sage Audio with premium results... i dont miss a video

[dillpereira]

it's important to understand the audio phenomena caused by the tools we use, but at the end of the day what matters is the artistic intention when choosing what to use. Passive equalizers are widely used in mastering precisely because of the resonance they cause. Great video. You have gold content

[mikelo]

One of the best channels right now on YT. Please keep it coming. Such short basic explanations of audio topics is very helpful as we (begginers) hear all those terms but never understand them completely.

[kindombanga]

Can't express how much I love this channel men! Your videos are the best videos with the best explanation I have found all over this 4 years of producing. I'm really thankful sage, you're awesome 😎

[rocktonmusikschule]

This guys make such amazing stuff to learn from. Thank you so much.

[RocknRollkat]

I use NO EQ except in very special situations, like enhancing a recording made many decades ago, pressed to vinyl, etc.
I especially enjoyed the explanation of the Haas effect.
Bill P.

[henryt]

As an audiophile, i never understood the mechanics behind an EQ and phase shift. This is eye opening.

[drmisterius]

Absolutely best description of both phase and EQ and phase

[shangomensy]

It's fantastic everything you do, thank you again.
Shango from cameroon.

[jeremylarue]

People tend to make a big deal out of phase. In reality, using parallel eq will only give you a slightly different curve than the graph is showing. Hi, low and band pass filters can get wonky. But, you're not going to get some weird phaser sound. If you don't hear a problem, there is no problem. EQ drum spot mics, use parallel EQ. IT'S OK.

[snaredrum]

You guys are amazing and appreciated ❤️

[DUBbyNATURE]

First and probably the only channel I'm hitting the bell icon for !!

[jonaswang]

information Ive been finding for years, thanks!

[janek]

Briliant! I've looking for exacly that for so long!, and finaly- something about fase changes coused by EQ. Thank you guys!!