[Warrax]

Hi, i read this: My link
It's seems to be usefull advices, but there is a thing i'm not sure about.

Part1 : "Reduce the mids and low mids. This area will add a lot of mud to your mix if you have a lot of instruments. It’s not necessarily that all your instruments have energy focussed here (although they might!), but that having a lot going on in the mids and low mids gives a feeling of mud. Having strong mids or lower mids in just one or two instruments can produce a sound of warmth and body, but more than that is usually too much. If you want to create space in your mix, clear out the lower mids especially, leaving only the essentials."

In terms of Frequencies, where are the Mids & Low mids? if you have any topic wich explain these words & their frequency translation you can post it
English is not my main language so i can understand what are Low/Mid/High but when i read Low mid, i don't really understand where it is

[Chensington]

There's no single right answer, but low-mid is probably somewhere around 250-500Hz (that is the octave range that can sound particularly "muddy" as you described). Or maybe 200-500Hz; either way most everything below 200Hz is either bass or sub-bass.

[Audioholic]

[paranoiabla]

And here it is a little bit more detailed:

http://www.independe...ain_display.htm

[alanisnotcool]

 paranoiabla, on 04 February 2012 - 10:18 PM, said:

And here it is a little bit more detailed:

http://www.independe...ain_display.htm

nice! now i think some one just needs to find a section for "balls" in the spectrum lol

[Klaneeer]

ye i would °ing like to know how the ° did they mix and placed probably 1000 sounds here

[Warrax]

 paranoiabla, on 04 February 2012 - 10:18 PM, said:

And here it is a little bit more detailed:

http://www.independe...ain_display.htm

ahah, nice !

Thanks for all answers.

[Electrodia]

A trick I picked up a while ago is if you have several sounds dominant in the same frequency area (say for example, I have a few bassier sounds residing at 90hz), I would choose one to play the bass part and make the others fit around it. To do this, I would pick the one sound with the most power at that area (or if not, pick the sound that will fit best there), and boost the frequency area by just a little, say 1 or 2db. Then, on the other sounds, in the exact same place, make an identical shaped cut by around the same amount, or more depending on the sound that you want to lead.

It's kinda hard to explain in words, so I made an example in this picture:



Hope that sorta helps

[Vlake]

That's the basics, secret, mistery and magic of EQ altogether.

It all can be resumed in that technique (even though the boosts have to be really careful and mild).

[Andrewjoo7]

You guys are all talking about eq but don't forget delays and reverbs are key in finding space

[Vlake]

Yes, and don't forget to EQ delays and reverbs too .

[dj_phi]

once i got a reverb that has it's own EQ for the wet signal, cleared up my mix pretty well once i started using it alot.


and alot of steep slope hi passing on my channel EQ. if you aren't choosing the sound for it's low freqs, then cut them. if you don't need many of the mid freqs either, keep cutting. if it seem to cut a little too much but sounds close... then ease up on the slope.


and if you're duplicating tracks exactly for whatever reason... start bussing. especially reverbs.