A few months ago, In a twist of incredibly expected irony, Marie Kondo, the Queen of Cleanliness got some backlash for her new eCommerce designed to sell, of all things, more stuff.

If you're not familiar with her philosophy, the KonMari method is basically a system for decluttering your home. You basically get rid of everything that doesn't "spark joy."

I see you audio peeps using it to finally get rid of your lava lamp, the broken kick-drum mic stand, and the assortment of cables that didn't work one day but you never got around to soldering.

 

 

Your home studio when you're old...

Although I think you can make great mixes with only stock plug-ins, I do use a lot of fancy premium plug-ins from Waves, UAD, Plug and Mix, Fabfilter, etc.

But you know what most of those plug-ins are?

They usually fall into these five categories:

• EQ
• Compression
• Reverb
• Delay
• Saturation

Premium plug-ins tend to oversimplify things, like all the artists series from Waves, like the CLA bundle. But I still think you should have an idea of what those plug-ins are actually doing to your mix. And as long as you know what the actual processors behind the plug-ins do, it's easy to know your way around any user-interface.

The controls might have fancy names like "thwack" or "edge" but if you know what frequencies those names correspond to, it's easy to understand what you're doing.

That's why I spend so much time teaching you the vocabulary of frequencies inside EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ.

You have to learn the slang if you want to understand.

Learning EQ is the place to start, so click the link below to get going:

www.EQStrategies.net