How The Pros Use EQ - How To EQ All Instruments and Your Mixes

Secrets of How The Pros Use EQ - Parametric, Graphic and Filters on All Instruments. Where The Sweet Spots Are On All Instruments.
In this video I will show you how all types of Equalizers. The great Boost and Cut sweet spots of all the Individual Drums, Bass, Guitars, Piano, Organ and Strings. I discuss all my favorite Analog and Digital EQ's:
Neve 1073,1066,1084 and 1081
API 550A, 550B, 560
Pultec EQP- 1A, MEQ5
GML 8200
Electrodyne 511, Quad Eight 310
Trident A-Range
Helios Type 69
SSL E and G Series EQ
Digital EQ's:
MCDSP Filter Bank E606, F202,P606
Metric Halo Channel Strip
Waves - Q10, Scheps 73, Renaissance EQ, SSL, API, V-EQ4, H-EQ Hybrid
Universal Audio - Cambridge EQ, Pultec, Neve, Helios, Harrison, Neve 31102, Trident
SoundToys - Filter Freak
FabFilter Pro Q2
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13:30 Drums 19:50 Bass Guitar 23:45 Electric Guitar Should be nice to have some real time video equalizing a band to figure out better. Also a good video to understand the equalization of a band.

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love these vids how to 0:00 filters 3:02 analog EQs 5:45 digital EQs 10:42 drum EQ 13:30 bass EQ 19:48 guitars 23:44 piano/organ 26:39 strings 30:20 Master EQ 34:20

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This is a really great EQ breakdown. I love the way you covered all the various EQ plugins as well as all the critical frequency ranges for instruments.

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"Scoop out the mud." A rule to track by, to mix by, and to live by.

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that mud in the middle will muddle your mids..

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Hi Rick, great video. A lot of useful info! Maybe, if it's possibile, a video where you work on EQs and Reverbs, on a short piece, with different instruments will be awesome. Thank you for all this great stuff!

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Great video, I've noticed that I was beginning to gravitate towards some of these sweets spots after a decade of trial and error. You've really cleared a lot of things up for me. Thanks Rick!

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Great EQ tutorial. Best on KZbin by far. Thanks man.

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despite me making music for my entire life, i am just now learning how to actually do it with your videos.

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Thank you for this very instructive video. It answered a lot of questions succinctly that I have been wondering about for years and some questions that I didn't even know that I wanted to ask. In particular, the remarks about EQ'ing bass instruments were eye-opening.

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Thanks for posting this video, always helps to review EQ techniques- really helps my mixing.

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This video is awesome, Rick. Thanks a lot 🙏 One of the best videos that helped me to understand how to EQ instruments.

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I believe that this is one of your most useful and practical videos so far for finessing mixes. It's more specific information than I have seen for most discussion of EQ. Good job, Rick.

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Thanks Steve!

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One of the videos worth to be on KZbin ! Great explanation Sir.

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Thank you. A great guide line. I am learning and practicing so much musical theory for and on the piano every days that I simple haven't got the time to do the same with mixing engineer stuff. So your videos really help to get a better understanding of that matters the quick way. Best wishes.

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applied to my mixes. Sounds 100x better. Thanks Rick!

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Outstanding lecture. Although some of this I "knew", I somehow need constant reminders. I like discussion on the reasons behind these guidelines. Thanks for sharing.

[@JohnnyAGraves]

Thank you so very much for this... I've been working on a mix and it was dull. I'm still learning EQ.Doing some of these adjustments brought the song to life....

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Thank you so much for this. Positively the most useful video I've watched on EQ. By the way, your mixes sound amazing!

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This video is really interesting. Very well explained, knowing how to equalize and correctly apply a compressor, make the mixtures perfect. Thanks for educating.

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great ideas Rick. Thank you. Would really appreciate if you do a part 2 to this video, with some practical examples

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[@cydoniamars2475]

Great Stuff!! We switched over to the UAD/UNISON technology, so it was nice to see Rick give a shout out on his "How the Pros Use Compression" lesson, to many of the great Processor emulations from Universal Audio. All these years later, and the LA-2A's/DBX 160's (including the VCA on the SSL E Channels) as well as the 1176's, continue to provide amazing dynamic control to our mixes. The Elysia and Summit Compressors are also great!

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Watching this for the 3rd time. Taking notes this time! Thanks Rick! Be safe!

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One of my favorite videos of all time

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Hi Rick , I feel you are if not one of the best teachers out there, respect to you sir !

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Thanks for the suggestion Rick. Plenty of useful knowledge about EQ.

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This is great. Highly informative. I've spent too much time lately on audiophile vids and comment sections. Audiophiles would argue against EQ all day. I'm tired of their idiocracy.

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It would be fantastic to have a video like this for classical music, especially symphonic

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I still come back to this video EVERY time Get Ready to Render! 😁

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Great work. Vital information for getting things done. Get rid of anything that is not the song and the sound that is left is the song and only the song. We tend to leave too many things in a song that are best removed. Nice to see it applied to teaching production. Very cool.

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This is absolute gold. Thank you. Wish I had this 25 years ago ;p

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Hi Rick, like magic my mix sounds like it needs to now, Great videos and many thanks for posting all your tutorials for us amateurs!

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By far the BEST KZbin producing teacher

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Brilliant info - the best I've seen on youtube - thanks!

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Thanks! This is exactly what I've been looking for, been flying blind on final mixes ...