If you've been on this email list for a while, you may know how much of a huge nerd I am.
In case yesterday's email about video games didn't tip you off, let me talk to you about The Umbrella Academy.
It's a comic book show on Netflix and I just started watching the third season last night.
***Warning: Potential Umbrella Academy spoilers ahead***
Seriously.....
Don't say I didn't warn you....
So the Umbrella Academy is a story about a super-powered family.
Original. I
know.
They're all adopted by this crazy father figure to help save the world, although they usually mess things up and leave the world worse off in the process.
At the end of the second season they end up changing the past so when they
jump back into the future at the start of the third season, they've been replaced by a completely different set of super-powered people because, in this timeline, the crazy father figure decided to adopt an entirely different set of super-powered children to be his family.
He's not the most warm and loving of dads, as you're quick to find out from the first
season.
So when they clash with their doubles, havoc ensues and our dysfunctional family gets their asses handed to them by their super-charged doppelgängers.
So the last time I left them, they were licking their wounds and figuring out
their next move.
It made me think of how you're dealing with evil doppelgängers in your mix every time you're EQ'ing your tracks.
Not only do you have all these frequency ranges that enhance your mix in a good way,
like:
- Warmth around 200 Hz
- Power at 500 Hz
- Clarity at 3 kHz
But you also have their evil mirror-images hell-bent on destroying your mix:
- Muddiness at 200 Hz
- Boxiness at 300 - 600
Hz
- Harshness at 2 kHz
You don't always know whether you're dealing with the good guys or the bad guys.
They're different sides of the same coin.
It's up to you to decide whether you need to enhance your tracks with more weight and warmth, or realize that you're overloading your low-mids and you need to cut out all that mud out.
And although I can't give you superpowers, I can give you the next best thing.
Something that would make a proud addition to Batman's utility belt if he was a Goth-Metal Mixing Engineer.
It's my Audio Issues EQ that shows you exactly where to find the good guys that help you eliminate the evil EQ spectrum that's trying to take over your mix.
It's on sale for 30% off this week when you use the code LABOR30 so make sure you get your copy now and start fighting the good fight to finish your mixes and proudly release your records.
Who knows, your music just might save the world.
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www.AudioIssuesEQ.com