I've got a question for you:
Do you want EQ to stay a mystery to you, or do you want to master it?
Knowing how to EQ is the single greatest skill any audio engineer has. Don't learn from behind a mixing board in a badly lit music venue like I did, with trial and error and randomly twisting knobs until "something" sounded "just ok..."
It was an exhausting experience that took a lot of frustration to figure out.
I want your mixes to sound better than that in less time.
So if you've been looking for a great EQ guide to fix those nasty frequencies in your mixes, look no further.
To really start getting great mixes you need to start understanding frequencies so that you can trust your EQ skills, something Brad Hoese accomplished after going through my EQ Strategies training:
"I have been volunteering at my church (always a live environment with limited time to get things "right" during rehearsal before the actual services begin) and found myself wanting to learn more so I could do better/more efficient work there. I found your 1 hour mix walk
through to be well worth the price I paid for the course. It was helpful to see how you eq'd instruments/vocals 1 at a time all the while paying close attention to how each of them fit into the mix. I had learned how to eq things in isolation and was taught to use the same methodology as you to find offensive/resonant frequencies and cut them. Where you helped me was in the idea of not so much how does it sound on its own, but how does it sound/sit in the
mix. Using kick/bass as an example, I could get each of them to sound great on their own but always thought they sounded kind of muddy together. Last week I went in to practice mixing using recorded multi tracks and tried eq'ing space for each of them and then they seemed to fit together so much better in the mix. And yes, I even used a very low frequency low cut on both (which I had been taught not to do) and thought it cleaned up the sound even further while still retaining
nice hit/punch/clarity."
And here are some thoughts from a couple of students:
“Everything was helpful. I used to fiddle with knobs until it sounded right. Now I can just go directly to the frequencies I need to boost or cut. I also learned more about how to use compression. I am enjoying learning and understanding more about mixing. I play out frequently and have a very good live drum sound. Your EQ Strategies has already helped me
improve the sound by helping me understand compression better and how to use it on drums.” -Jean F Peters
“The book is full of tips that are immediately useful. Like anything you are learning, it takes 'doing' and more 'doing' before you can start to polish your work. But the initial results are immediate and impressive….thanks. The format helped me solidify the basics very quickly. I sampled a few sessions with the concepts and found an immediate and
pronounced improvement.” -Dave Michaels
In addition, here are some real emails from satisfied EQ Strategies customers:
