I Mainly Boost When Mastering 🎛

I boost 90% of the time with my EQ when mastering.

I probably only do subtractive EQ about 10% of the time.

The reason why is that boosts are better 🤷🏻‍♂️

When you boost in certain areas, you get a natural dip from the boosts either side.

You also get some flavour and sound of that EQ 👌🏼

Rather than just taking away and not adding anything at all 🙅🏻‍♂️

Only do this if it needs it though of course...

#EQ #mastering #mixing #musicproduction #studio #shorts

[montytsunami]

Pultec’s boosting lows and mids do wonders on a master

[abcxtccc]

Streaky show it on some example! Thank you for tip Master 🎉❤

[steppabanton]

sometimes I boost to mask certain frequencies e.g boosting 250hz to mask 2.5k if there's too much energy there.

[psybursonic]

This is somewhat misleading without any context as mastering advice, imo. Sure, if you’re using an EQ that also saturates a boost will give you “flavor” but if your job as a mastering engineer is to balance the track you cut if you need to cut. And very often, using an opposite cut will mean you need less of a boost - for example to brighten a track you could just boost the top but you could boost the top less and cut the bottom a bit too. And by doing it that way, with smaller moves, your less likely to create unintended issues.