![]() ![]() These weren’t huge, sweeping boosts or massive EQ tweaks. It amazed me at how much cleaner I could make the mixes with just a few simple EQ tweaks, even though my mixes weren’t sounding bad at all, to begin with. So I hit the bypass button to hear the difference, and it was night and day! After a few EQ tweaks here and there… a little bit in the lows, a small boost in the highs, a subtle dip in the mids, I thought things were starting to sound a little bit better. I set the tracks up in the order that I wanted, balanced the levels throughout so they all sounded equally loud, and then I got to work on my processing.įirst up was my EQ plug-in. I thought the mixes were sounding good enough as they were, but I thought I’d put my mastering hat on and get analytical to make them all sound like a record. I wasn’t approaching the mastering process as a reason to repair anything I had done during mixing. Although I like to get a second set of ears on the songs and have somebody else do the mastering, in this case, I needed to both mix and master the EP. Even if you’ve created a spectacular mix, adding a few EQ tweaks here and there to the whole track can often clean up the low-end, reduce muddiness and add that professional brightness you thought your mix was lacking.įor instance, one time I was mastering this EP. EQ is an incredibly valuable tool to take your mixes to the next level during mastering. ![]()
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