Overusing Sweep EQ... #shorts

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[ninjaneer]

Infinite audio wisdom here on this channel. What a gift. Thank you, Warren.

[jsimons]

So true!! Was guilty of this early on and wondered why the mix went sterile. Switched off my notching EQ. It was alive again.

[davejohnsonmusic]

It just takes time and many mixes to instinctively know where the frequency problems are, so when you go to sweep, you already know where the ballpark is.

[BrockBarr]

Trusting your ears is such a massive tip for young mixers.

[Terribleguitarist]

Took me a while to figure this one out... granted I have freqs I know I'll usually cut with my main guitars, but using a more "broad stroke" eq like a Pultec or 73 vst usually gives me a result I enjoy more than my time being surgical with high q.

[teunputker]

''You know why it's obnoxious? Because the frequency is too loud!'' had me laughing so hard I spit out my coffee. Great advice, Warren. I've been told by several teachers to always use a sweep EQ on every source to check for bad frequencies. I used to follow that advice until I realised all my mixes sounded flat without any character. Same goes with overusing lo- and hipass filters. I think it was Andrew Scheps who said: 'When you're mixing, never go looking for problems.''

[tareefsmith]

Overusing sweep EQ is like searching thru your lover's phone. "[If] you're merely [searching] to find bad things, you're always gonna find bad things." 😂

[danielrecchia]

Probably most important thing I learned for sound work - being able to identify the problem before you touch ANYthing.

It's a testament to just how HARD frequency ear training is. It's hard enough learning pitches, intonation, intervals, etc... Now I've got to learn to identify the harmonic series a note / instrument makes too???

And perhaps the most difficult thing to confront is that there is no easy way to learn it currently. I'd guess that most well regarded engineers these days learned it by brute force experience; hours on the console.

There are ear training / identify the frequency type programs and such, but I feel like there is no "frequency theory" like there is "music theory". An area of knowledge or anything that might help accelerate and exercise the learning process.

[SirFreak]

Totally agree! I used to do this and it absolutely distroyed the sound.
I have many EQ plugins, but I mainly keep using FL Studio's stock EQ. Just does what I need.

[christophervincent]

Love your 'shorts' snappy and so useful summarising what you may have said elsewhere.

Hope you also actually wear 'shorts' in sunny California!


From rainy Sheffield, UK

Chris

[originalvonster]

As a beginner I can confirm that this is scarily accurate.

[monkeyrebirth]

YES! Sweep EQ has never worked for me for this exact reason. Thanks for confirming it's not my terrible ears!

[markbeeson]

I'm really enjoying Reso by Mastering The Mix. When you hear an issue, it does an excellent job helping to locate the frequency quickly.

[kaiulrich]

I hear you… it‘s an ongoing discussion wether one should use sweeping or not. I found myself getting quite good over the (many) years at pinpointing the REALLY annoying frequencies by sweeping…But I agree that as a beginner you should train your ears to know where about a problem is first.

[ninenumber]

I’d been doing this sweeping thing for mixing in studio too cuz I was used to doing that on live shows to cut off frequencies that have sensitive acoustic feedback but found out, i was doing that in studio too and felt “okay every frequency sounds terrible..what do I do” hahaha Big Thanks to you for always giving me encouragement and knowledge

[Joey-rpvg]

Very good advice and nicely put. Thanks for the video

[IngleArf]

This might be the biggest piece of advice for mixing on the internet

[simonquigley]

Really like the Slate Digital Infinity EQ!

[akagerhard]

I kind of do that sweeping thing though. I don't cut everything that sounds terrible, I cut that which sounds terrible in a way that I suspect it's going to be very terrible after compression, saturation etc. I usually end up with 2-3 cuts, sometimes 1 sometimes 4. I find it's important not to drag them all the way down and play with them a bit. Turn them in and out and hear what it's all about. I do this together as a "second treatment" (after deverb) on vocals together with a lowcut (and sometimes high-cut). I feel like it helps a lot. But that might have to do with the fact that I work with problematic vocals a lot. I don't do the sweeping thing on sample-instruments. In my experience they don't have these kind of issues and broad strokes are more than enough to get them right.