Isn't that a weird thing to say whenever someone comes over and you haven't squeaky-cleaned the house?
Like everyone else's place is always cut out of a Home & Garden cover?
But somehow it's the polite thing to do, even though you know they probably don't
care.
And you don't actually care either, because otherwise you would've cleaned!
After the hectic holidays our house is a complete mess!
Christmas decorations half-taken down.
The million presents we got for the house (my in-laws like presents...) scattered all over the place.
The floor hasn't been cleaned in a month because we weren't really here during the holidays.
Overall, pretty goddamn cluttered.
And it's driving me insane.
Oh, and we got a piano! I put my Breedlove acoustic next to it and I can just smell the songwriting energy coming off of it.
But that just means the couch that was replaced by the piano is just sitting in the middle of the
room.
Clutter!
So annoying.
So I'm creating a plan to declutter the house, one room at a time. I'll take everything that we don't use and put it in a box. If we haven't needed to use it in the next six months I'm giving it to
GoodWill.
You can think of decluttering your room just like you would think about subtractive EQ.
Once you get rid of all the crap you don't need in your room, all of a sudden it looks better.
The same goes with EQ.
Once you've gotten rid of all the pesky frequencies that are cluttering up your mix, the mix sounds cleaner.
I'm doing my house one room at a time.
You should do your mix one instrument and one frequency range at a time.
Look for pesky frequencies in the low-end. Then the mids. Then the highs.
Repeat with every instrument.
I bet your mix will sound cleaner once you take the subtractive approach like that.
Once you've tried your best on your
own but it's still not sounding good enough, try out the suggestions in EQ Strategies - The Ultimate Guide to EQ if you need some more direction where to declutter your mix.
Here's where you go for cleaner mixes:
www.EQStrategies.net
