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.
@@elmolewis9123 Of course experience is the eventual teacher, but for some people, especially the newbies it would be very helpful. Many people do not know a duck call from a goose call. A simple sound example explanation would go a long way. Just sayin'.
It would be helpful but what I think would be more fruitful is if you go into a mix and manipulate the EQ to create these sounds yourself. Not just do you get the sounds but you build trust in the chart and improve your skills working in an equalizer.
i don't think it's that simple because each sound source for those instruments is always unique and needs unique processing. It really just comes down to how you personally perceive it. Referencing can give you many clues ;).
@@elmolewis9123 Experience is obviously valuable but learning from a teach while also getting hands on experience is the best way to learn. I think that video explaining the different sound adjectives would be very valuable. I was having the same thought while watching this video.
“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.
yeah, its so difficult as a beginner because, although it's true that you should trust your ears, and thats what the best mixers do, as a beginner you have no idea what anything should sound like so its almost impossible.
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 RUclips and deserve an award every year! THANK YOU
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.
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 youuuuu
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.
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
You are very gifted and knowledgeable and your style is engaging. Many thanks for this information. My only minor whine is the wasted time in the intro. Get straight to it.
Absolutely the best visual EQ explanation hands down. Thank you so much #MOAM #MusicianOnAMission. If anyone is interested @HelpMeDevon *Your Last EQ Tutorial* video would pair perfectly with this as well.
You're great, man. You are so right. I was just leaving :) you stopped. I am very interested in the continuation of the video. It's a great content. 100 points. I am writing from Istanbul, Turkey. love.
they have one!! Just go through their videos or search it on the channel and you should find it. It’s actually one of my favorite gain staging videos ever made
Hey Dylan! Keep it up the good work! Been watching this channel a lot lately. I have a few things I'd like to discuss. Wouldn't it be better to always do EQ changes in context? Sometimes it may sound "bad" in solo, but perfectly fit in the mix? What's ur opinion on doing EQ moves with auto gain feature on, while doing the sweeps, boosts and cuts? Wont it kind of resolve the seesaw effect?
I don't support the idea that certain frequencies will do certain things, they wont, you can train yourself to look for "boxy sounds" or whatever and find that it'll be a different frequency for different instruments, even the same instrument with different mics, but a genuinely more realistic approach for learning is using the FFT spectrum analyzer almost any DAW stock EQ will come with and SEEING where buildups occur, and over time learning what /frequencies/ sound like, not just indescribable music onomatopoeias, the only way to get experience with this stuff is to do it, genuinely you can't just print out a sheet of paper and mix like someone who's been doing it for a decade, moreover if its word soup to you I think it'll be more detrimental than just trying, and seeing what you like the sound of
I signed up for and watched your Master Class and received several Cheat Sheets for the effort(thank you). However the sheet in this video was not among them. Would it be possible for me to get a copy of this sheet also?
If you google it, it turns up in the image results but it's kind of low res. The best way is to make a screen-shot of the chart when it appears in its largest size in the video.
I have signed up in the past but I don’t ever receive an email with the chart.. I am however getting emails from recording revolution again after I unsubscribed. What’s going on?
Question on the bass segment. Did you pop on a LUFS meter and check if makeup gain was needed with a before/after comparison? If yes, how many DB was needed?
Hi bro,my question is, fast time you make eq cute,some loss loundness after you make gain add +3 dB ,oky fine , but after you make more cutting frequency why not add gain , I don't know that's why ,i am beginner
17:36 here you chose to boost first them make cuts around harsh frequencies , to untrained ears i would say we didn't feel the need to boost because it sounded harsh already which gave the impression that it's not weak sounding , so would it be okay to cut first and boost after ?
I agree - you can take a single note on an organ and push the actual frequency of it and it can sound horrid. To then cut it at that frequency is the equivalent of turning it down.
What's some advice on carving out frequencies for each instrument to make sure that they create space for each other? Any resources for avoiding frequency overlap/masking?
Usually you just want to find the area of each sound that sounds most pleasing and subtly cut away that area in the other instrument (usually the "pleasing" area will either either be the fundamental or a mid/high mid harmonic). If you want the seperation to be more exaggerated then boost in the pleasing area in each instrument as well. A really huge thing to keep in mind also is the relative volume of each instrument. Sometimes you may have instruments that overlap but if one of them exists in the front of the mix and the other exists in the background of the mix then the need to carve space becomes less important because of the amplitude difference between tracks.
A lot of it comes way before the EQ-ing process when you do your initial sound-selection. Minimalism helps too. It's why a four-piece band of drums, bass, guitar, and vox mostly works 'straight out of the box', because bass, guitar, vox, and drums fit into different places naturally, provided you play and sing in the correct octaves. Note that you'd usually only play high notes in a guitar solo when the singer isn't singing, because the frequencies would clash if they happened at the same time. For electronic music, you have to be aware of things like fat basses adding to (and clashing with) big synth sounds that also contain a lot of bass. In short, if you've chosen a very heavy bass, your synth lead probably needs to be 'thinner', with less bass, so that the two instruments gel together rather than fight for the same frequencies. The more tracks/instruments you add, the more clashing/masking there will be, so try using fewer instruments at first, and pick sounds that 'naturally' take up different octaves/frequencies. Just use EQ for final tweaks to get them to sit better together.
I have a question: when I mute a track, is the track still summed to all tracks in my arrangement? Observed if I don't mute any tracks (when no content is playing back at them), then all the tracks still are summed, obviously.
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.
Even just from this video, you should be able to get a good feel of many of these. The solution you're looking for is called experience.
@@elmolewis9123 Of course experience is the eventual teacher, but for some people, especially the newbies it would be very helpful. Many people do not know a duck call from a goose call. A simple sound example explanation would go a long way. Just sayin'.
It would be helpful but what I think would be more fruitful is if you go into a mix and manipulate the EQ to create these sounds yourself. Not just do you get the sounds but you build trust in the chart and improve your skills working in an equalizer.
i don't think it's that simple because each sound source for those instruments is always unique and needs unique processing. It really just comes down to how you personally perceive it. Referencing can give you many clues ;).
@@elmolewis9123 Experience is obviously valuable but learning from a teach while also getting hands on experience is the best way to learn. I think that video explaining the different sound adjectives would be very valuable. I was having the same thought while watching this video.
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...
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
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.
“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.
yeah, its so difficult as a beginner because, although it's true that you should trust your ears, and thats what the best mixers do, as a beginner you have no idea what anything should sound like so its almost impossible.
Jacob de Jongh what i’m currently struggling with. well said 👏🏾
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 RUclips and deserve an award every year! THANK YOU
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.
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 youuuuu
'you go to the internet and collect tons of tips and tricks...' called me out 😂 this chart is amazing many thanks!
Called out mid-2000's Dylan too. hahaha
Best tutorial for newbies I've seen. This chart is a great idea.
Oh my god, thank you. Finally a tutorial that isn’t a dude saying “just use your ears man” and then outro music hahaha
This video is freaking beautiful.
You are amazing!!!!!! Best channel for music hands down!! I actually understand now!!! Felt like I was in school in a good way ❤️
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.
I would Go for a multiband compression for that guitar to feel more organic. Still a brillant video
This was extremely helpful!!! Thanks!!!!
Such a great video! You have an amazing pedagogy! This channel is a wealth of information
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
Best mixing/mastering channel on RUclips, man.
You are very gifted and knowledgeable and your style is engaging. Many thanks for this information. My only minor whine is the wasted time in the intro. Get straight to it.
Very nice video about EQ, thank you!
Unfortunately i could not find the frequenzy chart in the Cheat Sheets in your link.
Your are my life changer🙏
Thank you for this! Absolutely one of the very BEST video explanations I've seen on EQ!
I use this on my vocals and man this has been THE GREATEST sheet !!!
Very helpful info.
Absolutely the best visual EQ explanation hands down. Thank you so much #MOAM #MusicianOnAMission. If anyone is interested @HelpMeDevon *Your Last EQ Tutorial* video would pair perfectly with this as well.
You're great, man. You are so right. I was just leaving :) you stopped. I am very interested in the continuation of the video. It's a great content. 100 points. I am writing from Istanbul, Turkey. love.
Can you make a video like this about compression PLEASE??? 🙏🏽
maybe the most helpful eq tutorial on youtube
This is brilliant
Very efficient technique, bravo !
Thanks!
This is amazing. It just makes sense and is visually represented well!
You're my new favorite instructor.
NIce one, thanks!
Could you kindly do a separate visual video on *Gain Staging* as well? If you have a video on this already-----> post link below. Thank you.
they have one!! Just go through their videos or search it on the channel and you should find it. It’s actually one of my favorite gain staging videos ever made
Nice Sheraton!
Thanx alot for this
Thank you so much for this video and helped me big time.
Finanlly after a year i finanlly find a video that explains this fully!! Does all of this also apply to human voice for speech and singing?
Yup. Sound waves are sound waves
awesome video and demonstration
I think you solved the equation great 👍 video.
Such great tips. Thank you!!
BEAUTIFUL!
How do I get a PDF of the chart shown in the video? The download provide a different version. Thanks in advance.
super helpful, thank you !
This is dope, guys. Thanks so much
Loved it thanks
Dark and Booming.. actually sounds like a way I would want to describe my sound....
Hey Dylan! Keep it up the good work! Been watching this channel a lot lately. I have a few things I'd like to discuss. Wouldn't it be better to always do EQ changes in context? Sometimes it may sound "bad" in solo, but perfectly fit in the mix? What's ur opinion on doing EQ moves with auto gain feature on, while doing the sweeps, boosts and cuts? Wont it kind of resolve the seesaw effect?
15:33 that felt gud
Thanks a lot! You are a god! Keep going
Nice work!
Can you PLEASE go through where word is in the frequency spectrum is?
Did anyone find the E.Q. balance chart? It is not in the provided link.
Great vid and thanks! Just a quick heads up - if you request the chart thru the link, it doesn';t actually send anything. Must've broke at some point.
I don't support the idea that certain frequencies will do certain things, they wont, you can train yourself to look for "boxy sounds" or whatever and find that it'll be a different frequency for different instruments, even the same instrument with different mics, but a genuinely more realistic approach for learning is using the FFT spectrum analyzer almost any DAW stock EQ will come with and SEEING where buildups occur, and over time learning what /frequencies/ sound like, not just indescribable music onomatopoeias, the only way to get experience with this stuff is to do it, genuinely you can't just print out a sheet of paper and mix like someone who's been doing it for a decade, moreover if its word soup to you I think it'll be more detrimental than just trying, and seeing what you like the sound of
AMAZING BRO.
I have been looking for such a chart for months, thank you so much!
No problem 😊
Thank you ! Really hepful :)
I signed up for and watched your Master Class and received several Cheat Sheets for the effort(thank you). However the sheet in this video was not among them. Would it be possible for me to get a copy of this sheet also?
If you google it, it turns up in the image results but it's kind of low res. The best way is to make a screen-shot of the chart when it appears in its largest size in the video.
@@thebarf9235 thanks for the info.
i really like this, and would like to use the chart! I followed the link which download a .zip which does not appear to have this balance chart in it.
Hey teacher this is great!
I have signed up in the past but I don’t ever receive an email with the chart.. I am however getting emails from recording revolution again after I unsubscribed. What’s going on?
As said in other recent posts, this EQ chart is not included in the zip file download. Is there a direct link some where to download the EQ chart?
Question on the bass segment. Did you pop on a LUFS meter and check if makeup gain was needed with a before/after comparison? If yes, how many DB was needed?
Hi bro,my question is, fast time you make eq cute,some loss loundness after you make gain add +3 dB ,oky fine , but after you make more cutting frequency why not add gain , I don't know that's why ,i am beginner
17:36 here you chose to boost first them make cuts around harsh frequencies , to untrained ears i would say we didn't feel the need to boost because it sounded harsh already which gave the impression that it's not weak sounding , so would it be okay to cut first and boost after ?
I agree - you can take a single note on an organ and push the actual frequency of it and it can sound horrid. To then cut it at that frequency is the equivalent of turning it down.
Joey Sturgis invented the 4k cut.
❤️ thanks
The cheatsheet with the descriptive words for ranges is not in that downloadable folder. How can I get the exact one you have in this video?
Tried Hotmail and Google emails and haven't received the cheat sheet
I downloaded the cheat charts but there is no balance chart in the folder.
It's a fantastic video though!
What's some advice on carving out frequencies for each instrument to make sure that they create space for each other? Any resources for avoiding frequency overlap/masking?
lucasfilms1297 yes. Presets 😂😂
I like to use sidechain ducking when I have frequency conflicts. It can subtley make room.
Usually you just want to find the area of each sound that sounds most pleasing and subtly cut away that area in the other instrument (usually the "pleasing" area will either either be the fundamental or a mid/high mid harmonic). If you want the seperation to be more exaggerated then boost in the pleasing area in each instrument as well. A really huge thing to keep in mind also is the relative volume of each instrument. Sometimes you may have instruments that overlap but if one of them exists in the front of the mix and the other exists in the background of the mix then the need to carve space becomes less important because of the amplitude difference between tracks.
A lot of it comes way before the EQ-ing process when you do your initial sound-selection. Minimalism helps too. It's why a four-piece band of drums, bass, guitar, and vox mostly works 'straight out of the box', because bass, guitar, vox, and drums fit into different places naturally, provided you play and sing in the correct octaves. Note that you'd usually only play high notes in a guitar solo when the singer isn't singing, because the frequencies would clash if they happened at the same time. For electronic music, you have to be aware of things like fat basses adding to (and clashing with) big synth sounds that also contain a lot of bass. In short, if you've chosen a very heavy bass, your synth lead probably needs to be 'thinner', with less bass, so that the two instruments gel together rather than fight for the same frequencies. The more tracks/instruments you add, the more clashing/masking there will be, so try using fewer instruments at first, and pick sounds that 'naturally' take up different octaves/frequencies. Just use EQ for final tweaks to get them to sit better together.
Now I just have to be rich to get all those plugins :D
A trillon thanks to you
No chart in link. Takes me to video and nothing comes of it
It doesn't seem to be possible to actually find the cheat sheet. When you follow the links, the site doesn't even mention it. Major turn off.
Your eq chart isn’t in the download bundle
Please am trying to download it but is not working please someone should help me out
I'm Assuming So But, Does this work with Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B beats/tracks?
damn, on those eq tutorials, the before and after isn't clear
on this one though, it's like crystal
there is no EQ chart now how could i get that ?
I have a question: when I mute a track, is the track still summed to all tracks in my arrangement?
Observed if I don't mute any tracks (when no content is playing back at them), then all the tracks still are summed, obviously.
id like this chart but its not in the pack?
hmm not free chart goto sign email love the vid
Where do I download this sheet now? I didn’t see it in the Dropbox folder thanks
Take a screenshot and put in the 📂 is best advice there's a couple in these vids that are missing
Low cut ? High cut ?
Is the chart still available , because every time I go to the link, it’s sending to a video
same here
Hi there, was looking at 10:45. What if my EQ doesnt have an output level? Will a second gain in the chain be okay? and it should come after the EQ?
Yes, you can gain afterwards to match the loudness of your original signal :)
the link is broken
Am trying to download it but its not working
What mic is he using?
Did someone actually make a wallpaper of this?
The balance chart has disappeared?
There is no chart in the downloadlink
That first link doesn't take you to the chart at all. It feels a little disingenuous to me
Do yourself a favor and skip to 2:45
I love this but I havent gotten the chart or a link in my email :(
If you want i will send u. Give me anything for contact if u want