How To EQ Bass When Mastering (FabFilter Pro-Q3 Tutorial)

[andreybenassi]

Processing the track too much like Pretolesi does looks really fun and the right way to get it right, to sound professional, but it can slow down your learning curve a lot if you dont know how to get your sound right yet. Be careful guys, the secret to a good sound mix is half of the process in the source material, the process doesnt need to be complex, it needs to sound right, and by doing a lot of processing you can easily get lost.

[memeswillneverdie]

For anyone listening, be careful with this, you introduce phase shift when you eq and a high or low pass filter creates a 180 degree phase shift over the target frequency, in mastering this can be an issue and when applying this to low frequencies it’s far more noticeable

If you really want to add this then ask yourself “does the song need it” “is it worth sacrificing that low end quality to “clean up” the things you can’t hear

Now some people might retort with “linear phase tho” but the thing with that is sure now you don’t have the phase shift but you do have the transient smearing caused by pre ringing, in this video the technique is meant to bring punch and clarity so why get rid of clarity to add clarity?

If you want more low end, boost by a decibel or two if it’s a little more extreme.

Try everything and see what works, compare with the level matched original on anything you do, ask yourself “do I need to add this extra processing”, remember when you add any processing your degrading the fidelity of the audio so be careful.

I’m sure he gets amazing results using this because he understands the background of it and knows when and how to use it

[AftertuneMusic]

Sometimes bells works more natural on low freq, just my 2 cents!

[wobblefrog]

But in another video he says to never use hard cuts on master and instead use low shelf? I’m confused