The eleventh Yule Lad to come down from the mountains is Gáttaþefur.

The English translation of his name is Doorway-Sniffer and he "has an abnormally large nose and an acute sense of smell which he uses to locate laufabrauð."

And what he's sniffing out today are all the different things in your mix.

Sometimes he can't sniff out each instrument and it's hard for him to hear the separation between instruments.

So he leaves you with this tip:

With multiple instruments taking up the same frequency range in your mix you need to find the most flattering frequency for each one. Very rarely do all instruments sound best at the same frequency. If the kick and bass guitar sound great with boosts in 80 Hz but they clash together, chances are you'll find the bass jumps out of your speakers somewhere else, at 100  Hz, or even down low in the 50-60 Hz region. Once you've found two different frequency ranges for two competing instruments you simply cut in one what you boost in the other. It's really that simple and it works well to separate multiple guitar tracks that are all playing the same thing, clashing lead vocal lines that need to sit separately or dominating keyboard parts. Cut in one what you boosted in the other and create separation in your mixes.

That's all well and good and goes a long way towards creating a nicely EQ'd mix. Especially because if you're relying on "anywhere that sounds good" you'll enjoy hunting down the frequencies in the moment.

But if you need to save time and really need to know exactly where all the pesky frequency areas are hiding, my Frequency Breakdown in EQ Strategies - The Ultimate Guide to EQ will help you out:

www.EQStrategies.net