I learned it the hard way.

In a dark music venue where they would praise the band if they sounded good, but yell at you if they sounded bad.

The stage was hollow so it functioned as a resonator for low frequencies, adding muddiness and boom to everything.

That's when I learned how to cut 150-200 Hz to remove the mud so the sound cleared up.

And that's where I learned how important EQ was to make great mixes.

You see, using EQ is like being a sculptor of sound.

Imagine you're a sculptor in fifteenth century Florence, a renaissance man chiseling away at the marble until something beautiful forms from your imagination.

The chalk stains your calloused fingers, your clothes are drenched from your labor of love and all of a sudden, emerging from the marble: the shining statue you imagined in your mind.

You can almost hear the sunlight radiating off its back, casting a silhouette on the ground in front of you.

And although you might not have choirs of cherubs chanting your name when you finish your mix, the feeling is the same.

That's what you do when you EQ a a sound: You carve away at the frequency spectrum of your instruments.

You make room for everything in the mix and cut away everything that doesn't belong.

Look at EQ like an artist looks at their art and you won't be as intimidated by it.

Frequencies have characteristics, similar to the colors on the color wheel.

You add gradients of color that make something simple look even more vibrant.

When you add warmth and presence to your tracks you help them cut right through the mix without overpowering other instruments.

There's really no one way to go about it. It very much comes down to preference and taste in the long run.

As long as you simply follow a few guidelines to help you create a balance within the frequency spectrum of your mix, you'll find that EQ'ing is much more of an art than a science.

But as artists, we're all a little neurotic about whether our art is any good.

I hear that from you all the time when I ask what you're struggling with:

• "I don't know how to use EQ and how to check if any sounds need to be boosted or vice versa."

• "...how should I EQ guitars, drums and vocals such that each of them can be heard distinctly with all the details?"

• "To EQ for clarity, I've made small progress recently on EQ but still only just starting to get it. But want to get clearer mixes, less muddy than previous but need to learn more"

• "Kick and bass to together go over the spectrum. I want to leave headroom but I don't want to make it sound too low. I know I can EQ but when I reduce the bass EQ so the kick goes through, the bass loses its strength."

It's these problems that I hear from you and thousands of other customers that made me create the Step By Step Mixing System and if you're still struggling to get great mixes using the gear you already have, the Step By Step Mixing System will teach you how to focus on your music and mix like an artist.

Click the link below to learn more:

www.StepByStepMixing.com

P.S.

If you're one of the 15,000 customers who've already learned from my step by step mixing methods, please hit reply and let me know what you think about it!

Cheers!

Björgvin