Have been a live sound engineer for about 4 years but a producer for 2 months, all I can say is, the best way to EQ is indeed trial-and-error and listening to the sound in question, in context to the whole mix.
Of course, if there's sections of the track that have THAT sound playing by itself, you may need to EQ it seperately.

Most importantly, playing it by ear and listening to it on as many different sound systems as possible is more important than studying waveforms and graphs. In the end, it's about compromise as to what EQ config sounds good on MOST, all systems tested (if you're fortunate).

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Originally posted by lowski hey guys . i was wondering how much low frequency needs to be cut from a synth to make a mix sound good?.

none.

program your patches to sound good.

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Originally posted by I<3acid none. program your patches to sound good.

EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE EQ'ed

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Originally posted by System101 EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE EQ'ed

Yeah, but it's indeed more important to use suitable patches in the first place.

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EQing is just another part of sound design when it comes to making patches for me.

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Originally posted by System101 EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE EQ'ed

um no

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Originally posted by System101 EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE EQ'ed

Lawl!

EQ is not only about room. It's about sound as well. A touch of EQ or EQ automation can give your synth a different sound than just the patch.

It depends where you cut the lows. but if you cut to much you lose power, same goes for the kick and such. Cut the highs to much there and lose clarity and piercing sounds.

The thing is, it's not EQing that makes your tune sound flawless but the mixing, Mainly the dynamics. Thats where panning kicks in as well.

Make sure your kick and bass have the loudest volumes on your mixer in general (depends on the style your producing or the intention you have on how the song should sound) Behind that but not by far are your themes and below that everything else. percussion, fx, bla bla.

Is this the magic formula? nope. but it's a way you learn the basics, from there it's really a cake . I don't even think anymore if i mix/eq/ or whatever, it just happens. And USUALLY it sounds more than decent

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Originally posted by Octanesyco Greetings. My name is Casey. You can call me Moose. -Moose

half the time you guys are talking about eq techniques that are practically the equivelant of running a highpassfilter over some shit.

synths have hpfs. use them.

im not saying eqs shouldnt be used, of course they should! however i think that people put too much focus on the processing of the sounds...

loads of great stuff is ran into a mixer with a shitty 3 band eq, and maybe only on a handful of channels! people are able to make great music in the most ghetto of ways, yet many times when you see people talking all numbers and visual analyzers...i don't see the results of really focusing in on such technicalities until later on.