Hi Filip, I explain this in the currently running season, which is all about mixing theory and mixing consoles.. If you assign a mono track to a stereo-bus it basically 'becomes stereo'. (Panning a track 70% to the left than just sends more of the signal to the left-side of the stereo-bus than to the right-side.) The insert-processing, like equalising or compression, takes place before the panner, so it can be treated as a mono-channel with mono-plugins indeed.
best video on eq ever...if a person does not understand this after so much detailing and explaination....then he/she has some seriously brain problem... u explained in detail and scientifically...thanks a lot sir....
I am young yet interested in this field. I could say that your videos are comprehensive and well-explained for everyone. Thanks and I look forward for more videos!
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Superb tutorial ! I have been recording as an amateur, at school and at home, and just getting back to it after a couple years away from the console and DAW... Love it ! But I'd like to find a link that works to download your PDF ! they seem extremely complete and the knowledge they provide is essential and quite simply priceless ! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passion !
Am from Africa and my dream is to be a music producer and do well with mixing.... things I've learned and still learning from watching your videos Amazing... Personally I rate you the best teacher so far on RU-vid... Cause you've made me learn so much in few days than I've learned in years... Thank you so very much.... I owe you...
Thanks man!, Basically after watching this, and playing around with my guitar recording, for 10mins, I got the sound I wanted. :) Thanks for getting me on the right track! :) Thumbs up
thanks for these videos, been producing for just over a year with a few releases under my belt. and i wish i had these tips when i was working on those records. appreciate your hard work man.
Going to be pedantic here, but at the beginning you said "an equaliser is being used to remove or add frequencies of a signal", which is incorrect. Equalisers adjust the amplitude of the frequencies of an audio signal. Although it may sound like I have said the same thing, the difference is huge and crucial to understand. If an audio signal contains no high-end information, an equaliser will never "add" those frequencies if they don't exist. Similarly, if an audio signal contains low-end information, an equaliser will never "remove" those frequencies if they exist. You either attenuate frequencies or boost frequencies - you never add or remove. This is important for when you want to "enhance" an audio signal. Preferably, EQ should be avoided if you want to enhance the signal. Other processing can be employed for enhancing the audio signal. "Enhance" is a subjective term. What I really mean is add "texture" - specifically, this means to increase the harmonics of the signal. No EQ can add "texture" i.e. increase the harmonics of a signal. Pitch shifters, distortion, comb-filtering etc. are all better methods for increasing the harmonics of an audio signal over EQ. Or, adding synthesised textures is a preferable method in my case. EQ is better to be used primarily for correction purposes over than enhancing purposes.
Also NEVER use low shelf boost, as it absolutely smushes your instrument balance, take the deep tones of your base drum as you want to boost the base and make it "bass heavier" or in other words moove more air because low shelf boost smudges the undertones of even a guitar or singing voice too! If you start to listen when you are using bell curves to boost the "bass roots" you will notice your mix sounding x times better then before! :)
Michael Lück It's unreasonable to say _never_ do (x) or _never_ do (y). Shelving will _generally_ sound more natural on non-percussive instruments than using bell shaped curves for boosting and cutting (especially for boosting - not so much for cutting). On percussive elements, (such as a kick drum), you can get away with using bell curves because kick drums rarely contain harmonics related to the fundamental. That is to say, you can tackle a small range of frequencies, and then apply a large boost because it won't sound unnatural. However, if you have a guitar, for example, which is very harmonically rich (or any string instrument because strings, when plucked, excite many harmonics), and you use bell curves for boosts, or cuts, you are limited to the amount because you may bring out certain harmonics which ring and don't sound musical at all. If you tackle a small range of frequencies from a guitar, and apply a thin large boost on the EQ, you will start to increase the decay time of those frequencies which may causes either unwanted ringing or muddiness. And remember that the harmonic content of a musical instrument is what defines that very instrument. So using thin boosts, or cuts using bell curves will change the harmonic content and thus, make it possible to redefine what instrument it is. Hence, why it sounds unnatural when you use bell shaped boosts on musical instruments. Shelving either boosts, or cuts a large range of frequencies rather than a few if you were to use a thin bell shaped curve. My method is as follows (on non-percussive instruments): I use high pass and low pass filters for removing unwanted frequencies that are barely audible (the "clean-up stage"). I use shelving for changing the tone of an instrument; if I want something sounding brighter, I will scoop the low shelf right up to the frequency where I think the high-end starts, and then slowly apply small cuts using the shelf which will bring out all the frequencies that are being untouched - the same vice versa if I want something warmer using the high-shelf. I use bell shaped curves for tackling specific frequencies that are either a) masking the frequencies of other instruments or b) have some annoying ring to them or just nasty frequencies that don't make the instrument sound good. That's it. I sway away from making boosts when EQ'ing. However, I am talking about natural instruments i.e. any instrument that has been physically recorded. When it comes to digital instruments, synths, samplers, drum machines etc. this method doesn't really apply - you can do much more damage with an EQ on synths without making it sound unnatural (because it isn't a natural instrument to start with). What do you mean "low shelf boosts smudges the undertones" - I would argue to the contrary. It is bell shaped boosts that "smudge" the undertones because you are tackling a small range of frequencies and by boosting, not only are you increasing the loudness of these specific frequencies relative to the other frequencies, but you are also increasing the decay time of those frequencies - in which make it possible for those frequencies to overlap with others - hence the term "ringing". A shelf tackles a large range of frequencies - and so shelving avoids unnatural ringing of certain frequencies as well as avoids unnatural tonal balance (if you use small amounts). And I am talking about non-percussive instruments here - on drums, you don't come across this problem.
The only difference between a low-shelf and a high pass filter is that a low shelf can cut or boost while a high pass filter is designed specifically to cut, right? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm still trying to get the hang of this.
Hi Jacob, I currently only have it available for iPad. But I am looking into publishing it on other platforms (& devices) as well since I am finishing up the second book right now :)
A common misunderstood and stupid question here. Let's say I pan a mono track 70% L and 30% R. Does it become automatically a stereo track and do I need to use a stereo EQ, stereo compressor or whatever... ? Thanks.
Can you connect a graphic equalizer to a sound bar? I have an old ken wood eq that I want to use to enhance sound of my Vizio sound bar, preferably the bass. I'm a novice but I think I may need a receiver with an amplifier or maybe buy a subwoofer. My sound bar didn't come with a subwoofer. My sound bar has a digital optical (which goes into my tv), 3.5 audio, digital coaxial, and rca audio connection. Thanks
An excellent presentation!!! Can you tell me the "perfect" settings for the center speaker, for my home cinema? I have YAMAHA RX-V3900, with 7 bands to each channel and "JUMO D6" speakers. Thank you.
" An equalizer or EQ, is being used to remove or add frequencies of a signal"...How can you add a frequency? It's (the frequency ) either there as part of the audio being played back or its not. No?
I believe it depends, for example some instruments might not have any low frequencies at all when playing at higher pitches, however, in some cases these low frequencies can still exist but they are too quiet to be heard so we can either cut them off completely, to avoid any unwanted noise, or boost them so we are able to hear them... Hopefully this answered your question! any other questions! :D
Although it may seem overwhelming being hit with all of the information you’re providing, I think you’ve formatted it all very well. You give the definitions while reciting them from the screen and you provide the examples. If anyone feels unable to digest the information, I recommend you start from the beginning and pause after each definition/example is given. Read it word by word, and think about how it relates to what he’s said previous as well as making sure you understand what it all means. You’re a lifesaver providing this guide. I was really interested about gaining a better comprehension over this topic. Thank you...
Hi I have shown the High Cut and Low cut in the Filter tutorials. (These are normally filter-bands.) You can check these out in on the channel as well. Cheers
EQ,a real,nightmare,more than fiddling with sliders and knob,nothing sensed by the novice,,but,Wick,,the skill of presentation is an exclusive skill,,Thank you
These tutorials are hands-down the best simplified, yet complex, tutorials I've found about sound and steering towards mixing. You've got a long and successful career with these if you keep sharing your wealth of knowledge this way!
