EQ TIP FOR MIXING VS MASTERING 🥊

🔥 Here's a little EQ tip that's different in mixing, to mastering

👉🏼 In Mixing... Try and fix problems with a cut, rather than a boost

👂🏼 Human ears are less sensitive to cuts than boosts

This is especially true if you're using a low-cost equaliser,

🎛 Or an EQ on a cheap mixing desk

👉🏼 In Mastering... It's the reverse

👂🏼 A cut will create a lot of change that your ear will definitely pick up on

👌🏼 And a boost will add some flavour if you're using something like an emulation, or a hardware EQ and will always sound more balanced than a cut

👍🏼 This isn't a golden rule, but it's a general guideline to EQ that I found super useful over the years

#mixing #mastering #EQ #tipsandtricks #mixingtips #masteringtips #shorts

[kingech_B]

Fix it in the mix and make it shine in the master.

[AhmedIsmailofficial]

It was super great of you mentioning it isn't a golden rule 👍👍

[skrypture]

It took me a while to figure this out when I was first learning to mix and master my own stuff but man it might be low key the most important thing after gain staging

[Jupiter]

Ive never done anything in mastering other than a multiband limiter and sometimes a multiband saturator so i never understand videos that went so in depth in mastering. Its like... can people just not mix well?

[Jabesh_Dta_Music]

Teacher I do this trick already been doing so from back in the day Jamaican engineer taught I this

[BrianMarcWhittaker]

If I’m doing voiceover, what’s the rule for that?

[SinfulSoulBand]

Because i write metal, i have to cut out all the low ends on mixes in things so nothing is wompy sounding. During mastering, i find that i have to put an EQ and increase some of the low i took out

[franklee]

that's right!! I learned that from the senior engineer's. you'll always hear them say cut someone told me one time the best mix is a flat mix.... what the hell that means? I still don't know.

[tundesmart]

On the master, narrow cuts may result in phasing issues. I would rather use a less than 1 dB wide bell boost/cut during mastering.