As a mixing processor, EQ is pretty much one of the most important ones.

You can think of it like you were a sculptor using a chisel.

You have a block of marble and chisel away at it until something beautiful forms from your imagination.

When you use filters and cuts, you carve away at the frequency spectrum of your instruments, making room for everything in the mix and cutting away everything that doesn't belong.

You can also look at it from the perspective of a painter or a colorist adding to a pencil drawing.

You add gradients of color that make something simple look even more vibrant.

When you add warmth and presence to your tracks you help them cut right through the mix without overpowering other instruments.

So as you can see, EQ'ing is pretty artistic.

There's really no one way to go about it. It very much comes down to preference and taste in the long run.

As long as you simply follow a few guidelines to help you create a balance within the frequency spectrum of your mix, you'll find that EQ'ing is much more of an art than a science.

But as artists, we're all a little neurotic about whether our art is any good.

I hear that from you all the time when I ask what you're struggling with:

• "I don't know how to use EQ and how to check if any sounds need to be boosted or vice versa."

• "...how should I EQ guitars, drums and vocals such that each of them can be heard distinctly with all the details?"

• "To EQ for clarity, I've made small progress recently on EQ but still only just starting to get it. But want to get clearer mixes, less muddy than previous but need to learn more"

• "Kick and bass to together go over the spectrum. I want to leave headroom but I don't want to make it sound too low. I know I can EQ but when I reduce the bass EQ so the kick goes through, the bass loses its strength."

It's these problems that I hear from you and thousands of other customers that made me create EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ the first time. It's the same reason I tripled the amount of information inside the book.

The techniques and strategies you'll learn with Your Ultimate Guide to EQ is an exhaustive list of all the EQ tips i've learned throughout the years, and this week I'm pumped to release it for you to devour.

​​​​​​​Here's what a couple people had to say about it recently:

"An immediate and hugely practical understanding of the frequency spectrum and fantastic examples of positive and negative aspects of the key audio frequency bands as related to achieving better mixes. A superbly comprehensive and humorously written book by someone with lots of of a practical experience, that beats many video tutorials on this subject. Plus you can have a comprehensively indexed pdf to hand for quick referencing while mixing without needing to fire up a video tutorial and scrub through the timeline hoping to find what you're looking for!" -Alan Doyle, Beta reader

"The impression I got from the Course, and from your site in general, is that you are one of the rare few who has both the ability to understand complex technical concepts and the ability to effectively communicate them in common, every day language. A few of the tips I got from the course really did make a noticeable difference in a couple of projects I am working on. The course gave me a good sense of your style and the fact that there so much useful information for free led me to believe that the stuff you have to pay for must be really great (which I later found to be true)...I am very impressed with everything. The quality of the material is fantastic and the publications are beautiful. The graphics, the layout, the videos are all very impressive. It really is a lot for the money and I am really excited about learning. Thank you very much." - David Cox, EQ Strategies customer

Remember that you have until tomorrow to get Recording & Mixing Strategies for free with EQ Strategies. That's an $84 product bundle I'm giving away for anybody who buys the revamped EQ Strategies guide before tomorrow night.

Here's the link again:

www.EQStrategies.net

P.S.

If you're one of the 1,100+ customers who already got their copy, please hit reply and let me know what you think about it!

Cheers!

Björgvin