Here's how you should think about EQ'ing depending on how many instruments you've got going on in the mix.

Basically, the bigger the arrangement, the smaller the frequency room each instrument has in your mix.

A power-punk quartet with drums, bass, two guitars and loud vocals a la Offspring?

You won't need to do much EQ'ing to separate the instruments. They can all have loads of space in the mix.

An 80's disco pop song complete with layers of synths, backing vocals, horns and percussion?

You'll need a lot of finesses to hear all that stuff individually.

So the more stuff you put into your arrangement and mixes, the better your EQ skills have to be.

There's only so much stuff you can cram into the mix before every instrument starts fighting with each other.

• The synth will inevitably fight with the guitars.
• The kick drum will fight with the bass guitar.
• The strings will drown out the piano.
• The percussion will get in the way of the snare.
• And everything, LITERALLY EVERYTHING, will smother the vocals.

And the vocals are the most important thing of the whole song?!?

So unless you want every instrument to lay on top of each other with no definition, no clarity and no area to call its own...you better get working on those EQ skills!

And what better way to learn the simple tricks to making everything fit together in the mix than by learning from my mistakes?

I guarantee you that if you can't balance your mixes and make everything fit together in the frequency spectrum after reading my EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate EQ Guide then I'll give refund every penny.

In fact, Albert from Germany recently bought EQ Strategies to solve his problems with EQ’ing his own songs.

He’s been searching for a way to learn to EQ his recording quickly instead of just trying out random solutions. He uses a lot of drum samples in his recordings and I’m sure he’ll get a lot out of the chapter on EQ’ing both recorded and sampled drums.

Whatever genre you're working in, and whatever instruments you need to EQ in your mixes, you'll find the help you need inside EQ Strategies.

See for yourself right here:

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