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is it safe to say you must low cut everything?
even the really higher stuff? 
If the frequencies aren't being used in the construction of the sound I want, then I get rid of them. Always.
Pretty much yep.
Experiment.
Create a 10 channel mix and then render 16 bars with low cuts and then without.
You should see a definate difference in the clarity of the mix.
Yes! unless you hear significant improvements to the sound if not doing so. 
A common mistake many people do is to not cut the low end of the synths.
I recall there was some mention of a plugin that gave you visual representation o the frequencies and showed your "hot" frequencies - eg busy / overloaded bands. Can someone refresh my memory / recommend one?
But also, while you may cut some frequencies, you may suck the life out of a track - some transients need room. As old adage goes - listen on various sources - car stereo, boombox, alarm clock with shitty one speaker and iPod dock, iPhone speaker.
Close the door and listen from another room. And then still not know what to do about crappy mudpie you slapped togeher
A little bit of low band muddiness can often glue a mix together. On the whole you should take away as much of the low content you don't require in order to free some headroom.
Personally I think a lot of new producers use highpass to overkill and end up losing that lovely intermodulation you get with certain sounds playing together and covering a similar band between the bass and lowmid area. They can sometimes glue and add a human warmth very similar to what happens in an orchestra live.
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| Originally posted by aNYthing I recall there was some mention of a plugin that gave you visual representation o the frequencies and showed your "hot" frequencies - eg busy / overloaded bands. Can someone refresh my memory / recommend one? |
I always cut everything below 60hz and bass below 50hz. You know what i find amazing though some manages to get through i proved this to myself by mixing it to -3 on the master bus and applying a low cut on the master bus as well and the volume jumped up to -0.5. i checked all the channels and eveysingle on including fx sends had the low cut applied.
Another good thing to do on weeding out problem frequencies (although some srgue it thins sounds too much) is to do a parametric sweep. Take a parametric eq or for instance cubases Q filter. Turn the Q down to the lowest it will go like 0.5 or something and (making sure monitors are turned down) boost that band by 20db and sweep it across the frequencies. The most powerful (in some peoples mind the trouble freqs) will suddenly jump out as horrible sounding volume spikes. Then you simply chop that freq out and becasue the Q is so small the sound remains almost the same just a bit thinner and definatley more clear. Some people like it, and it works for me.
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| Originally posted by Acton I believe the FL Studio EQ does something similar. |
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| Originally posted by DEAD_MOOSE A little bit of low band muddiness can often glue a mix together. On the whole you should take away as much of the low content you don't require in order to free some headroom. Personally I think a lot of new producers use highpass to overkill and end up losing that lovely intermodulation you get with certain sounds playing together and covering a similar band between the bass and lowmid area. They can sometimes glue and add a human warmth very similar to what happens in an orchestra live. |
I only cut what doesn't audibly changes the full mix. This way you cut out irrelevant content which clogs up the mix.
Apart from that I also cut a bit more where I think is necessary of course.
stuff is getting generic if doing this too much imo. even a hihat should have some info lower down, its actual air moving in real life and that should be reproduced in stereo too. unless u plan to compress the hell out of it in order to make it sound loud on tv and radio.
The steepness of the filter can vary so you still get some warmth coming through on the low to mid-end. Or you could use a low shelf filter and just take off some of the lows.
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| Originally posted by Beatflux The steepness of the filter can vary so you still get some warmth coming through on the low to mid-end. Or you could use a low shelf filter and just take off some of the lows. |
I have a question.
In reason I put an EQ on a synth to cut lows. I dont know how its with other DAWs but in reason you can cut -18 db.
Then i think it sounds OK but if I put another EQ and do the same cut, i can hear that the EQ before didn't cut all lows.
So if I want to get rid of all lowend I have to use 2 or sometimes even 3 equalizers. Is this necessary or is it better if a synth has some small amount of low frequencies?
Try puttong the eq between your mixer and the hardware output thingy at the top of reason and applying a low cut to your master as well.
and how would this help?
hope you're not trying to be funny 
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| Originally posted by chick and how would this help? |
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| Originally posted by chick stfu if you cant help |
sorry i was too rough, but it really sounded to me like you're making a joke..because i dont get it. if you cut lows on master EQ you also cut it on bass and kick, what's the point?
Ok i get it now. I always cut <30hz on my master. Seems like you didn't get my question. I was asking if it's better to use 2 EQs to really cut all lows or just 1 and leave small amount of low.
you cant hear much below 50hz anyway so if you cut below 50hz on your kick and bass it will help you!
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| Originally posted by chick Ok i get it now. I always cut <30hz on my master. Seems like you didn't get my question. I was asking if it's better to use 2 EQs to really cut all lows or just 1 and leave small amount of low. |
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| Originally posted by palm i rather boost the lows. i like my bass |
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