The Best EQ Advice I've Got (The Balance Chart)

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If you want to master EQ but feel like you're just stuck in the weeds, then stick around - in this video I'm sharing my best bit of advice with you.

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00:00 Intro
02:47 Breaking it down
05:58 How to use this tool
08:00 Examples
20:30 Caveats
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[TheGRider]

Wouldn't it be great if someone did a video with examples of all those types of sounds? Example: This is what "boomy" actually sound like in drums. This is what "brittle" sounds like in a guitar. This is what "honky" sounds like in a vocal. Those descriptions could mean a lot of different things to someone who is not familiar with them.

[JimiWaggs]

Dude this was great. Total lightbulb moment for me when you showed how makeup gain worked after dialing back on the boominess. Great video. Thank you

[siddharthasekharkole]

and all these for free, what a blessings... I don't know why I was so late to find u out, my fault of course, my mixes are going to change now...

[TejSinghMusic]

Some one can be best Mixing Engineer or be best Mixing Teacher. You are Both. Hats off to you for making it So simple for us to understand Better.

[SteveOMusic]

This video saved my life. I can’t even begin to tell you how much this information meant to me. I can’t thank you guys enough. You’re simply the best music production and mixing channels on YouTube and deserve an award every year! THANK YOU

[Midzbeats]

I finally saw you’re face. I was waiting for this moment to say THANK YOU for making confusing mixing/mastering problems tooo easy to understand!! Thank

[raydowling]

Very clearly explained. None of the clutter and information overload you find on other channels.Thankyou :) If you are confused about EQ then watch this.

[baileymaloney]

“Use your ears” is the musical equivalent of the sports mantra “quit thinking & just play”. Both are frustrating because they are the broad, grey truth & the broad, grey truth makes us uncomfortable because we are trying to grasp something which is fluid as if it were static. We want rigid, black & white rules because they are easier for us to comprehend & implement, but greatness is not easy, it is elusive & ever changing. We must learn to embrace that discomfort & keep our minds fluid. That’s when we will play our best & create our best mixes.

[davidlecam]

Best tutorial for newbies I've seen. This chart is a great idea.

[Purpleboo]

You are Best channel for music hands down!! I actually understand now!!! Felt like I was in school in a good way ❤️

[Flashback_Jack]

Best mixing/mastering channel on Youtube, man.

[fromthegotten]

This was extremely helpful!!! Thanks!!!!

[cheery-hex]

'you go to the internet and collect tons of tips and tricks...' called me out 😂 this chart is amazing many thanks!

[EnriqueRojasmusic]

Such a great video! You have an amazing pedagogy! This channel is a wealth of information

[brian_whitscell]

Thank you for this! Absolutely one of the very BEST video explanations I've seen on EQ!

[Rockyylikee]

I use this on my vocals and man this has been THE GREATEST sheet !!!

[jackstanton]

Absolutely essential video. Thank you so much. However, when I click on the link to get to charge it takes me to your website but I’m not finding the chart anywhere. Can you direct me to it? Thank you

[kickilicoff]

Very nice video about EQ, thank you!
Unfortunately i could not find the frequenzy chart in the Cheat Sheets in your link.

[Kemkal]

This is amazing. It just makes sense and is visually represented well!

[JimRobinson-colors]

What is not usually addressed in most of the EQ videos is the problems of the room and the problems of your speakers or headphones. Using your ears is a good thing for eq but if you haven't analyzed the room first, how do you know you are not just fixing the inadequacies of the room, speakers or headphones?
Which means - that your compensation for what you hear many be exponentially making your mix sound worse on someone else's system.

I used to work as an engineer and producer back in the old days of analogue where home studio was only an option for people with lots of money. But even then we would choose mixing locations ( studios ) because the sound we heard was not colored in any way. Today I am a film/video colorist and doing professional color decisions on a monitor or display that isn't calibrated and in a room that is lit poorly etc. my decisions could be altered and the end user in most cases would see a completely different image than I would.

I know that is an analogy that some might not understand or accept, but if you are making decisions on sound or picture and something is coloring it or in the case of rooms, speakers and headphones lacking. You might just be making a rocking sounding mix - just for your room and played back on your system. And when someone else listens to it, any increase or decrease may be multiplied by their uncalibrated rooms and listening hardware.

I would suggest that people look into getting some kind of spectrum analyser and actually eq their room using white noise.
There is an old story of Elton John being asked how the decision of where he plays on the keyboard and his answer is that they find where his voice is sitting and he keeps his left and right hand spread apart on the keyboard. A mix is similar, a good producer and a good engineer will leave appropriate holes in the spectrum for each recorded device or human voice and slot it in. If you have ever recorded a young rock band and during the mix, the guitar player thinks he or she is not up in the mix enough, and the keyboard player thinks the same and then you raise the gain and you lose the vocals - it is most likely that the musicians are all tonaly playing and eq into the same ranges.