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| quote: | Originally posted by billymarsh
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RE: Track - coming from someone with a boomy problem, myself, this track is full of low-end boom and lower-mid-range mud. I definitely hear what you're trying to accomplish and that you want to deliberately obscure some high-end on certain elements (i.e. that percussive warbly sound) but it sounds like you haven't EQ'd the low-end on any of your individual tracks. I'd start with cutting everything that doesn't have a bass component to it with a high-pass filter, starting at 300 Hz (you can always put some back if it sounds a little too thin). That should allow you to hear more of what's really happening in your bottom-end, percussive parts (kick & bass).
Those could be cut and/or shelved and you might think about how much decay you have on each element. With a high-pass filter, I generally cut my kicks from 30Hz on down and my basses can be cut from between 60 to 170 Hz. The range of 100 to 200 Hz is where you get most of the thump and I've been shelving that with a 250 Hz small Q notch by a few decibels.
I can't really give you any hard and fast rules on how much to cut but, generally, if the low-end content sounds twice as loud as its mids and highs, to my humiliating consternation, I've found that it can be three times louder than it needs to be. It might help to remember that at a 3 dB increase, a sound is louder by two times.
EDIT: Also, it can be helpful to have a track which resembles what you're trying to accomplish, mix-wise, to compare to your own, while you're in the process of mixing. I'm honestly kicking myself because I don't do this nearly enough and it's resulted in some rather shitty mixes, from my corner.
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Last edited by EddieZilker on Aug-19-2012 at 19:23
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