One Minute EQ Trick #3 - Boosting the Lows Without Causing Muddiness

Published: Wed, 02/10/16

In this week's One Minute EQ Trick I'm showing you a trick I learned from Ian Shepherd when he was teaching me a thing or two about Mastering EQ.

It's a great way to add some weight to your song without adding too much to the low-mids.

You simply find a place in the lows to boost with a bell curve that just stops short of the "boomy/muddy" area in the low-mids.

That'll add thickness and power to the low-end that you really feel rather than hear (especially on large speaker systems) and as long as you don't have weird resonances or too much bass response in your bass instruments this trick will give you some nice punch in the lows.

Here's the video example:

If low-mid clutter and boominess in your mixes is a big problem for you I have some great advice in my frequency breakdown chapter inside EQ Strategies - The Ultimate Guide to EQ.

www.EQStrategies.net