Why You Need to Highpass for Louder Mixes and Clarity 

This is an amazing video! Thank you Michael for helping so many people out! This is extremely important information, that you articulated so well!! You Rock!!

5:25 holy shit that comparison was mind blowing!!!

Dude, this just blew me away! Thank you so much. Gonna be a huge help on my mixes.

Lots of New videos next week. FL STUDIO Trap and Hip Hop videos + 10 more FL videos - stay tuned everyone and have a great weekend :)

You are blowing my mind with tutorials these days! I see an In the mix tutorial nowadays and I click at lightning speed haha!

Here's a funny story related to sound frequency, when I was in high school. Teacher: We'll test out the highest frequency you guys can hear! Teacher: We're now at 16kHz. Can you guys hear it? Students: Yea I can! (About 25/30 people in class) Teacher: What about at 17kHz? Students: Yea I can! (15/30 peopple) Teacher: 18kHz? Students: Yea I still can hear it!!! (5/30 people) Also teacher: Oh, I didn't have it on.

This video convinced me to get SPAN, since the EQs in FL don't show stuff thats happening below 20hz.

Dude I love your videos, keep up the great work!

There isn’t a better teacher than you on RU-vid when it comes to mixing tutorials. Cheers man. Keep up the good work

You're my favourite music production RU-vidr man. You've helped me take my music from ok to a level beyond what I thought I was capable of and taught me so much. Thanks a million 🙏

Thank you SO MUCH for this, it literally changed my WHOLE mastering game. Couldn't thank you enough. Also your descriptions are more professional than any other I've ever seen. Litereally.

This guy is helping me alot in my production! Thank u In the mix!

He's tryna help and 6 people dislike smh lol I swear people hate just to hate

this just blew my mind. i feel like this was one of the missing pieces in my music thank you

I just wanna like this one million times, with the rest of your videos. You are SO freaking well articulated. Super easy to comprehend. I find mixing interesting and important but incredibly boring at the same time - you make it fun and graspable. Super huge thank you!

Wow, this channel is pure gold, not only do you teach us how to use fl studio, but also make us understand why things are happening. I've noticed that the last part also helps me figure out stuff in fl studio on my own. Thank you so much!

You guys always came up with some untouched topics & very helpful tutorials❤

Wild information! That's crazy stuff! Thanks so much for the tip, it's so helpful!

Just resently discovered your channel and I gotta say it's a gold mine of information. I've learn more about mixing in this last week than I had in month fumbling around the internet reading tutorials, thank you for this.

Just found you a couple days ago and fell in love with your videos. Thank you SO much for doing this! May you always be blessed and healthy so other people can benefit from your knowledge and the way you teach it.

This Tutorial Is On Point Thanks

Iv literally learned so much from you it’s crazy thank you so much!!!

Mike...keep doing what you do man. So much concise, quality information on your channel. I wish you guys so much success bud. The provided "why's" behind the moves you make in your mixes truly make your channel my go-to for obtaining good information. The music's great too man!!

Thank you for the visual reverence to what is actually happening and what the outcome is. I have received a lot of useful information and inspiration from your tutorials. I know these are older videos but to me they are simply GOLD.

Simple, yet total genius. I'll definitely be doing this from now on. Thank you for a concise and very well-presented video.

Dude, I had to come back after applying this and say big thanks! I'm so hyped! Much love to you, your work and all other persons in this videos still xd. Pd: Btw be careful with the phase (timing affection) ;)

Out of a few dozen videos from others on the same topic this is the first I've seen to really show proof of concept. Thank you!

Fascinating! As a newbie to mixing I can honestly say this never would have occurred to me. This is turning into one of my absolute fave channels.

I really want this guy to go viral one day, this is the kind of producing content (but also flying the FL studio flag) that the music making community needs to see

You earned a sub with this one. Such a great video. Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! I have heard the concept over and over, again and again. But now I actually understand how the low end impacts the mix and why it’s important to remove those frequencies. You are awesome!! 👍🏽😎

Mate every video you make I learn so much! Mad respect! The only channel any producer or musician needs! Peace!

I feel like I just learned one of the most important lessons for audio mixing.

Short sumarize: you will increase the overall volume of the track by cutting away the lowest frequencies that even the speakers dont reproduce. Even if we dont hear them they are still taking audio space and affects the overall loudness negatively

thank you so much! this video helped me a lot. i was having really muddy/poor sounding mixes/masters not sure where it came from. now after cleaning up those unwanted frequencies it's so much cleaner and warmer sounding. once again, thanks so much. keep up the good work.

Such a fantastic video. Thanks for taking the time to show us the comparison. I was blown away! 🤘🏼

0:58 - I wish my headphones could pop instantly like yours

Thank You

the level of professionalism in your videos is laudable. Thanks:)

Awesome video with a perfect talking/demonstration ratio! I am using low cuts a lot already, but your merciless metering is inspiring. There's always room for improvement I guess. Thanks again!

One thing to keep in mind... Take a tone that is peaking at -1 dB. High-pass it at say 20 Hz. Now, due to phase shift, you're clipping (unless you used a linear phase EQ, which has its own issues). Point being, be aware that applying a filter to an audio source will have unexpected repercussions.

Hey, bro honestly, I'm not a pro at this, not even a veteran, but I do know about perfectly mixing and mastering my music and every time even though I had just the perfect FX on the master as well as individual buses, it always came down to this loudness issue and this tip was just a life saver. You did mention it in a previous video of yours, but the concept wasn't clear, but it is and I just tried it on a track, I struggled with, and my oh my it already sounded way lot better. Thank You, for doing all this good work for us beginners.🙌🙌😉😉

What a brilliantly articulated and useful video. Each time I watch your content, I usually come away more informed than before. Nice work mate. Well produced and informative video.

Just this year I have been top and tail editing my tunes from several years back. Huge differences in mastering stuff now. This is an essential bit of education, very grateful to you for explaining it brilliantly.

Dude un content is lit keep it up

Great tutorial mike

Dude i love your channel i have learnt some things but mainly its encouraged me to start posting up my own vids :) Keep up the great content much love from Australia!

How could I not know about this channel earlier... I have to say it was an awesome video! You explained it in very clear terms, I'm pretty sure anyone who didn't study recording/mixing/sound engineering can understand the whole vid from start to end. Anything that helps people make their song not as crushed is awesome in my book. Plus, Warren approves! Love you guys both. You got yourself a sub, fella.

Thnx for the video

10-15 videos next week?! wow

Michael, I have just discovered your channel. You explained and demonstrated this point so clearly and concisely. As an amateur DAW user/ musician/ songwriter, it wasn't something I ever considered to be an issue. Now I can see (and hear) just how much difference those inaudible low frequencies can make to a mix when compression is involved. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge, and having also looked at a couple of your other videos I have no hesitation in hitting the subscribe button and notification bell. Keep up the excellent work, sir!

congratulations to 500.000 subscribers! youre doing a great job in sharing your knowledge about mixing and mastering :) ! thank you!

Could you make one more mastering video with (izotope ozone8) Please.. 🙏

So I've been trying to get my music loud since I started producing ~6 years ago. Talking like -4 or -3db rms that a lot of heavy bass music tunes are sitting at. I've found that the highpass madness doesn't actually give you much more loudness. The main reason being that a lot of sounds in the digital environment do not have information down that low. The only elements with information down at 20hz by the end of your mix is the kick maybe, even a clean sub generated from a high quality synth does not have information below the fundamental by definition. I feel I've succeeded in getting my tracks both loud and clean, and flipping a sharp highpass at 20hz on my master (or on all the groups) actually doesn't get it any louder, in fact, it actually increases the peak due to how filters work in that a peak is created at the cutoff which is more pronounced the steeper the filter. I don't believe you showed what span looks like without the highpass, I'd like to see that, because I've taken wav files of what I consider to be the best mixes in loud dance music, and there is in fact information down at even 5hz, and plenty below 20hz for that matter.

Very helpful video, I've heard from just about everyone that it's important to highpass at about 20hz in a mix but I never knew why it mattered. Thanks man :)

Thank you Michael. I appreciate your teaching being a teacher. This is great information and something I needed to see. Carry on with your videos; I will definitely listen.

2:58 my heart when my crush is walking towards me😂

I can remember when my with maximus' presets """""mastered""""" tracks were sounding like that hahaha :D just 2-3 year ago

The second you mentioned that there are inaudible frequencies that computers will still read I figured it out, but being able to hear the stark difference it makes opened my eyes. Thank you so much for this information! You just earned yourself a subscriber!

amazing and underrated, you're a great teacher. continue the good stuff, maybe with some music theory stuff thrown in with production.

But should we highpass every sound individually or we can simply lowcut everything below 20Hz on the master? Are there any differences?

Is this done while mixing or at the mastering fase?

Confirms what I already knew in theory, but this video goes a long way in demonstrating and explaining succinctly the need for rolling off sub-audible frequencies. Excellent work!

Incredibly important information that can so easily be overlooked in these times of digital mixing and mastering. Thank you for sharing and posting this great tutorial for better sonic possibilities!

Nice jacket .

As someone who produces mumble rap, I disagree, the low frequencies should not be high passed, they should be boosted........ Jk, Loved the tutorial I'll be waiting for the other tutorials you promised on your discord server.

In all my years of watching RU-vid tutorials, this is the one video i can say actually wowed me. I wasn’t even looking for this but I’ve been mixing some muddy mixes lately using a different computer and didn’t really know how to fix it. I’m just grateful to you. I’ll subscribe and hope my views help you earn more money or something. I’d just throw money at you if i had a lot otherwise lol

Great video. I’ve been doing this as of late to my mixes. I also just learned about mid-side EQ, and that’s cleaning it up a bit as well. Thanks for all the tutorials. SPAN really helps out A TON!

When you talk about a lowcut you have to talk about phaselinear eqs

MY EARS HURT!!! THAT 12 HERTZ SUB OwO

Thank you Michael! After watching your mixing video I had been hipassing inaudible frequencies but kinda neglected it recently. This opened my eyes lol. I'm going back and hipassing all the songs I've done lately haha. You are such a gift!

Holy Shiza! Wow. Those speakers jumping around without any noise is all i needed to see. Thanks !

It doesn't matter wat type of music u wanna create... You HAVE 2 KNOW UR STUFF!!! Everything about this video is so insightful. Thanx for all of ur content! Keep doin ur thang💯

I want to say thank you very much! I’m making a synthwave album, and with one track it’s a lot of trouble to get clarity, and I found this video by chance. I used to try to get clarity in mastering with eq, but now I canceled back to mixing, I go through each instrument with a High / low filter if there is an "unnecessary" frequency, finally in mastering I do the same for the whole song and the difference is BIG!

thanks for the high quality stuff ,keep it up man ! we appreciate your work

Really good video. From many poitns HPF all the individual tracks has many advantages, this one never crossed my mind.

Excellent video! High pass filtering is so misunderstood, badly taught and misapplied. This is superbly well explained with very good demos to support your teaching point. I've had a HPF at 20HZ on my mixbus for years. Your video really shows how important it is!

I was aware of this already but it's good someone is showing it clearly. Thank you dude :)

This is def!!! the VERY BEST Video you've post!!!! tons of thumbs up for this info!!! Specially digital environments consider the very low frequencies and high as well as part of the frequency spectrum in the meters. May be you can't hear stuffs below 20hz or above 20khz but there is air involved that you can actually feel, you can feel vibrations on your chair or your desk that needs to be remove!!!!! specially with the lows. !!!! nice video! there is so confusing information about this topic in the internet.!!!!!

You are the BEST. Really. I used to watch people showing what they did, people showing how to create a certain type of song but I wasn't happy with this and I didn't know why. I was just because these persons didn't show how to create music but how to copy other producers. And then, I discovered your channel, I'm currently watching ALL your tutos and I really feel like I can do whatever I want now. So thank you so much Michael. Music production would have never been the same without you.

This is an amazing video!Thank you Michael for helping so many people out!

This is excellent. I took a two year break from production after a Decade of frustration around mixing and mastering. Always felt I made decent music, but could never wrap my head around the concept of loudness. Cheers

Yoo a very concise, informative video on something that is not often talked about in depth! Thanks!

Thank u so much, you make my days sooo much better. I have so much trouble with mastering a clear mix so it sounds balanced with the bass and mid range. SO THANK U❤️❤️❤️

You and Rob Mayzes are the best mixers on RU-vid. Thank you for helping us independent musicians.

Maybe one of the best videos I have seen so far on RU-vid, very helpful thank you very much.

I just discovered your channel, and every video I watch is gold, thank you so much :D subbed!!!

This is AMAZING, thanks a lot bro !! keep watching ur videos and Im getting more and more informed from every video ! this is priceless

Amazing what a difference, I knew it was unnecessary to have those frequencies we cannot hear but this really shows it makes a huge difference for perceived loudness. Thanks for the video!

Thank you so much man! This really helped. Everytime I mix beats, I always wondered why it sounded so muddy and louder than what it should've been, I couldn't even record vocals because of the mix on the beat lol this makes a HUGE difference

This video covers a concept i was very familiar with for a long time without much of an effective solution. This is very helpful.

Hero! I'm grateful for all these vids, they've helped me tons!

Wow! Thank you for this video. I'm fairly new to producing music and mixing and mastering is something I'm just starting to comprehend. I've learned so much from just fiddling and observing, but this bit of information is literally invisible. I don't think I would have ever noticed this on my own, and the improvement is substantial. Your videos are the best RU-vid has. Very informativele and to the point. Anyone wanting to shorten the steep learning curve of music production would be a fool not to subscribe to this guy. He has increased my progress exponentially. Thanks again. Keep up the good work.

He's always perfect in explaining what (actually) needs to be explained! 👾

Well done. So knowledgeable and easy to understand. Keep them coming!!!!

Wow, this may be the most helpful video I've ever watched! I'm definitely going to cut the super low frequencies that our ears can't hear. I'll probably do it once with an EQ & then save it, so I just have to load it onto the tracks as is. THANK YOU!!!

This literally just blew my mind!!! Great video!

WOW...20+ years producing, recording and mixing music and you learn something new every day. Thank you for this...

This is literally incredible. I'm about to mix a song tomorrow so the perfect moment to learn about this

A complicated topic expertly and clearly explained. Top job!