The Best EQ Advice I've Got (The Balance Chart)

[@TheGRider56]

Wouldn't it be great if someone did a video with examples of all those types of sounds? Example: This is what "boomy" actually sound like in drums. This is what "brittle" sounds like in a guitar. This is what "honky" sounds like in a vocal. Those descriptions could mean a lot of different things to someone who is not familiar with them.

[@elmolewis9123]

Even just from this video, you should be able to get a good feel of many of these. The solution you're looking for is called experience.

[@TheGRider56]

@@elmolewis9123 Of course experience is the eventual teacher, but for some people, especially the newbies it would be very helpful. Many people do not know a duck call from a goose call. A simple sound example explanation would go a long way. Just sayin'.

[@smoovewitit]

It would be helpful but what I think would be more fruitful is if you go into a mix and manipulate the EQ to create these sounds yourself. Not just do you get the sounds but you build trust in the chart and improve your skills working in an equalizer.

[@annaorland7657]

i don't think it's that simple because each sound source for those instruments is always unique and needs unique processing. It really just comes down to how you personally perceive it. Referencing can give you many clues ;).

[@irascib1e]

@@elmolewis9123 Experience is obviously valuable but learning from a teach while also getting hands on experience is the best way to learn. I think that video explaining the different sound adjectives would be very valuable. I was having the same thought while watching this video.

[@TejSinghMusic]

Some one can be best Mixing Engineer or be best Mixing Teacher. You are Both. Hats off to you for making it So simple for us to understand Better.

[@JimiWaggs]

Dude this was great. Total lightbulb moment for me when you showed how makeup gain worked after dialing back on the boominess. Great video. Thank you

[@SteveOMusic]

This video saved my life. I can’t even begin to tell you how much this information meant to me. I can’t thank you guys enough. You’re simply the best music production and mixing channels on KZbin and deserve an award every year! THANK YOU

[@siddharthasekharkole2309]

and all these for free, what a blessings... I don't know why I was so late to find u out, my fault of course, my mixes are going to change now...

[@baileymaloney1961]

“Use your ears” is the musical equivalent of the sports mantra “quit thinking & just play”. Both are frustrating because they are the broad, grey truth & the broad, grey truth makes us uncomfortable because we are trying to grasp something which is fluid as if it were static. We want rigid, black & white rules because they are easier for us to comprehend & implement, but greatness is not easy, it is elusive & ever changing. We must learn to embrace that discomfort & keep our minds fluid. That’s when we will play our best & create our best mixes.

[@jacobdejongh9042]

yeah, its so difficult as a beginner because, although it's true that you should trust your ears, and thats what the best mixers do, as a beginner you have no idea what anything should sound like so its almost impossible.

[@tonykage8851]

Jacob de Jongh what i’m currently struggling with. well said 👏🏾

[@raydowling4888]

Very clearly explained. None of the clutter and information overload you find on other channels.Thankyou :) If you are confused about EQ then watch this.

[@JimRobinson-colors]

What is not usually addressed in most of the EQ videos is the problems of the room and the problems of your speakers or headphones. Using your ears is a good thing for eq but if you haven't analyzed the room first, how do you know you are not just fixing the inadequacies of the room, speakers or headphones? Which means - that your compensation for what you hear many be exponentially making your mix sound worse on someone else's system. I used to work as an engineer and producer back in the old days of analogue where home studio was only an option for people with lots of money. But even then we would choose mixing locations ( studios ) because the sound we heard was not colored in any way. Today I am a film/video colorist and doing professional color decisions on a monitor or display that isn't calibrated and in a room that is lit poorly etc. my decisions could be altered and the end user in most cases would see a completely different image than I would. I know that is an analogy that some might not understand or accept, but if you are making decisions on sound or picture and something is coloring it or in the case of rooms, speakers and headphones lacking. You might just be making a rocking sounding mix - just for your room and played back on your system. And when someone else listens to it, any increase or decrease may be multiplied by their uncalibrated rooms and listening hardware. I would suggest that people look into getting some kind of spectrum analyser and actually eq their room using white noise. There is an old story of Elton John being asked how the decision of where he plays on the keyboard and his answer is that they find where his voice is sitting and he keeps his left and right hand spread apart on the keyboard. A mix is similar, a good producer and a good engineer will leave appropriate holes in the spectrum for each recorded device or human voice and slot it in. If you have ever recorded a young rock band and during the mix, the guitar player thinks he or she is not up in the mix enough, and the keyboard player thinks the same and then you raise the gain and you lose the vocals - it is most likely that the musicians are all tonaly playing and eq into the same ranges.

[@Midzbeats]

I finally saw you’re face. I was waiting for this moment to say THANK YOU for making confusing mixing/mastering problems tooo easy to understand!! Thank youuuuu

[@Purpleboo6875]

You are amazing!!!!!! Best channel for music hands down!! I actually understand now!!! Felt like I was in school in a good way ❤️

[@Flashback_Jack]

Best mixing/mastering channel on KZbin, man.

[@davidlecam7665]

Best tutorial for newbies I've seen. This chart is a great idea.

[@brian_whitscell]

Thank you for this! Absolutely one of the very BEST video explanations I've seen on EQ!

[@cheery-hex]

'you go to the internet and collect tons of tips and tricks...' called me out 😂 this chart is amazing many thanks!

[@masteringcom]

Called out mid-2000's Dylan too. hahaha

[@EnriqueRojasmusic]

Such a great video! You have an amazing pedagogy! This channel is a wealth of information

[@tolgatokoglu]

You're great, man. You are so right. I was just leaving :) you stopped. I am very interested in the continuation of the video. It's a great content. 100 points. I am writing from Istanbul, Turkey. love.

[@jackstanton1091]

Absolutely essential video. Thank you so much. However, when I click on the link to get to charge it takes me to your website but I’m not finding the chart anywhere. Can you direct me to it? Thank you

[@kickilicoff]

Very nice video about EQ, thank you! Unfortunately i could not find the frequenzy chart in the Cheat Sheets in your link.

[@Rockyylikee]

I use this on my vocals and man this has been THE GREATEST sheet !!!

[@hamachi21]

This video is freaking beautiful.

[@flowerinthedawn1]

maybe the most helpful eq tutorial on youtube

[@samblankenship3212]

You're my new favorite instructor.

[@Luisgomez-so3go]

I would Go for a multiband compression for that guitar to feel more organic. Still a brillant video

[@sebastientale]

Very efficient technique, bravo !

[@Coachwill101]

You are very gifted and knowledgeable and your style is engaging. Many thanks for this information. My only minor whine is the wasted time in the intro. Get straight to it.

[@joelarmendariz8876]

awesome video and demonstration

[@fromthe4gotten]

This was extremely helpful!!! Thanks!!!!

[@tri-unetrl3966]

Can you make a video like this about compression PLEASE??? 🙏🏽

[@joseferro1432]

How do I get a PDF of the chart shown in the video? The download provide a different version. Thanks in advance.

[@GladysGrace001]

Could you kindly do a separate visual video on *Gain Staging* as well? If you have a video on this already-----> post link below. Thank you.

[@azizolivine]

they have one!! Just go through their videos or search it on the channel and you should find it. It’s actually one of my favorite gain staging videos ever made

[@sohsuh7625]

Thank you so much for this video and helped me big time.

[@Kem1kal13]

This is amazing. It just makes sense and is visually represented well!

[@saxophonesunsetsmedia]

Question on the bass segment. Did you pop on a LUFS meter and check if makeup gain was needed with a before/after comparison? If yes, how many DB was needed?

[@chandandev2005]

Your are my life changer🙏

[@searchiemusic]

I don't support the idea that certain frequencies will do certain things, they wont, you can train yourself to look for "boxy sounds" or whatever and find that it'll be a different frequency for different instruments, even the same instrument with different mics, but a genuinely more realistic approach for learning is using the FFT spectrum analyzer almost any DAW stock EQ will come with and SEEING where buildups occur, and over time learning what /frequencies/ sound like, not just indescribable music onomatopoeias, the only way to get experience with this stuff is to do it, genuinely you can't just print out a sheet of paper and mix like someone who's been doing it for a decade, moreover if its word soup to you I think it'll be more detrimental than just trying, and seeing what you like the sound of

[@jondurbeckjohannessen2994]

Hey Dylan! Keep it up the good work! Been watching this channel a lot lately. I have a few things I'd like to discuss. Wouldn't it be better to always do EQ changes in context? Sometimes it may sound "bad" in solo, but perfectly fit in the mix? What's ur opinion on doing EQ moves with auto gain feature on, while doing the sweeps, boosts and cuts? Wont it kind of resolve the seesaw effect?

[@patrickbluebus]

Very helpful info.

[@l.a.french3063]

Did anyone find the E.Q. balance chart? It is not in the provided link.

[@GladysGrace001]

Absolutely the best visual EQ explanation hands down. Thank you so much #MOAM #MusicianOnAMission. If anyone is interested @HelpMeDevon *Your Last EQ Tutorial* video would pair perfectly with this as well.

[@chriswuzhere91]

This is brilliant

[@aaronfishbein7569]

Great vid and thanks! Just a quick heads up - if you request the chart thru the link, it doesn';t actually send anything. Must've broke at some point.

[@techknowbabble]

Finanlly after a year i finanlly find a video that explains this fully!! Does all of this also apply to human voice for speech and singing?

[@smoovewitit]

Yup. Sound waves are sound waves

[@ShaneMcCosky45]

Can you PLEASE go through where word is in the frequency spectrum is?

[@emachineseventyseven7164]

I think you solved the equation great 👍 video.

[@rashid5271]

17:36 here you chose to boost first them make cuts around harsh frequencies , to untrained ears i would say we didn't feel the need to boost because it sounded harsh already which gave the impression that it's not weak sounding , so would it be okay to cut first and boost after ?

[@JimRobinson-colors]

I agree - you can take a single note on an organ and push the actual frequency of it and it can sound horrid. To then cut it at that frequency is the equivalent of turning it down.

[@teespence365]

The cheatsheet with the descriptive words for ranges is not in that downloadable folder. How can I get the exact one you have in this video?

[@theorignl4415]

I signed up for and watched your Master Class and received several Cheat Sheets for the effort(thank you). However the sheet in this video was not among them. Would it be possible for me to get a copy of this sheet also?

[@thebarf9235]

If you google it, it turns up in the image results but it's kind of low res. The best way is to make a screen-shot of the chart when it appears in its largest size in the video.

[@theorignl4415]

@@thebarf9235 thanks for the info.

[@OBDPVCR]

NIce one, thanks!

[@MultiMrMayonnaise]

Thanks!

[@KAnders1]

As said in other recent posts, this EQ chart is not included in the zip file download. Is there a direct link some where to download the EQ chart?

[@IanKilpatrick801]

I have signed up in the past but I don’t ever receive an email with the chart.. I am however getting emails from recording revolution again after I unsubscribed. What’s going on?

[@z3nithsounds]

Nice work!

[@mdtazmir7924]

Hi bro,my question is, fast time you make eq cute,some loss loundness after you make gain add +3 dB ,oky fine , but after you make more cutting frequency why not add gain , I don't know that's why ,i am beginner

[@MarcusEDM]

Wooooow. So much time wasted with other complicated, overtechnical or insufficient tutorials. Wasted so many hours!! Finally a practical one!! Thank you soooooooooo much!

[@xsensvit8660]

BEAUTIFUL!

[@VSARecordsDelhi]

Thanx alot for this

[@leandrobastosmusic]

Such great tips. Thank you!!

[@PhiberOptik1979]

i really like this, and would like to use the chart! I followed the link which download a .zip which does not appear to have this balance chart in it.

[@kenlawrence6716]

I'm Assuming So But, Does this work with Rap/Hip-Hop/R&B beats/tracks?

[@georgemarinescu969]

I downloaded the cheat charts but there is no balance chart in the folder.

[@JoeySlackMusic]

Nice Sheraton!

[@Acpjohn]

Please am trying to download it but is not working please someone should help me out

[@lucasfilms1297]

What's some advice on carving out frequencies for each instrument to make sure that they create space for each other? Any resources for avoiding frequency overlap/masking?

[@officialWWM]

lucasfilms1297 yes. Presets 😂😂

[@m.digidy4457]

I like to use sidechain ducking when I have frequency conflicts. It can subtley make room.

[@annaorland7657]

Usually you just want to find the area of each sound that sounds most pleasing and subtly cut away that area in the other instrument (usually the "pleasing" area will either either be the fundamental or a mid/high mid harmonic). If you want the seperation to be more exaggerated then boost in the pleasing area in each instrument as well. A really huge thing to keep in mind also is the relative volume of each instrument. Sometimes you may have instruments that overlap but if one of them exists in the front of the mix and the other exists in the background of the mix then the need to carve space becomes less important because of the amplitude difference between tracks.

[@AutPen38]

A lot of it comes way before the EQ-ing process when you do your initial sound-selection. Minimalism helps too. It's why a four-piece band of drums, bass, guitar, and vox mostly works 'straight out of the box', because bass, guitar, vox, and drums fit into different places naturally, provided you play and sing in the correct octaves. Note that you'd usually only play high notes in a guitar solo when the singer isn't singing, because the frequencies would clash if they happened at the same time. For electronic music, you have to be aware of things like fat basses adding to (and clashing with) big synth sounds that also contain a lot of bass. In short, if you've chosen a very heavy bass, your synth lead probably needs to be 'thinner', with less bass, so that the two instruments gel together rather than fight for the same frequencies. The more tracks/instruments you add, the more clashing/masking there will be, so try using fewer instruments at first, and pick sounds that 'naturally' take up different octaves/frequencies. Just use EQ for final tweaks to get them to sit better together.

[@roikorginal]

super helpful, thank you !

[@executionsquad3926]

I have a question: when I mute a track, is the track still summed to all tracks in my arrangement? Observed if I don't mute any tracks (when no content is playing back at them), then all the tracks still are summed, obviously.

[@burning_KFC]

Thanks a lot! You are a god! Keep going

[@Kimbluejean]

there is no EQ chart now how could i get that ?

[@dimitryrubakov4359]

Tried Hotmail and Google emails and haven't received the cheat sheet

[@stephendobson4764]

id like this chart but its not in the pack?

[@theeangello]

What mic is he using?

[@MrHectorjalo]

AMAZING BRO.

[@kanyekubrick5391]

This is dope, guys. Thanks so much

[@etiennegroues371]

I have been looking for such a chart for months, thank you so much!

[@masteringcom]

No problem 😊

[@SuperLevelone]

Loved it thanks

[@deepsynth3495]

Your eq chart isn’t in the download bundle

[@adamelfers9523]

Where do I download this sheet now? I didn’t see it in the Dropbox folder thanks

[@soun.slayer]

Take a screenshot and put in the 📂 is best advice there's a couple in these vids that are missing

[@Faithaven]

No chart in link. Takes me to video and nothing comes of it

[@Acpjohn]

Am trying to download it but its not working

[@blaarghwee]

Dark and Booming.. actually sounds like a way I would want to describe my sound....

[@SufferahsmusicHD]

Do yourself a favor and skip to 2:45

[@drumcoversbysean9802]

the link is broken

[@francoisvasseur8594]

Low cut ? High cut ?

[@cahitkilincel]

Hey teacher this is great!

[@JesseByars]

It doesn't seem to be possible to actually find the cheat sheet. When you follow the links, the site doesn't even mention it. Major turn off.

[@iutube18]

Is the chart still available , because every time I go to the link, it’s sending to a video

[@bedardchantal7105]

same here

[@grunntalll]

Hi there, was looking at 10:45. What if my EQ doesnt have an output level? Will a second gain in the chain be okay? and it should come after the EQ?

[@jcb.98]

Yes, you can gain afterwards to match the loudness of your original signal :)

[@Timbahawk]

There is no chart in the downloadlink

[@Pandore]

Thank you ! Really hepful :)

[@fernandoreyes289]

15:33 that felt gud

[@jivexero]

Did someone actually make a wallpaper of this?

[@catherineevans576]

The balance chart has disappeared?

[@rajveerprajapati1687]

❤️ thanks

[@PastorPande.D.C]

cant see the FREE EQ balance chart with this link bro?

[@mascot9465]

Bro take a screenshot from the video

[@PastorPande.D.C]

@@mascot9465 thanks for the advice, done it

[@shubhshinde4438]

A trillon thanks to you

[@catherineevans576]

It's a fantastic video though!

[@lodougherty]

Joey Sturgis invented the 4k cut.

[@rupertcaney]

This is great. I've heard many times "don't mix in solo"... Do you have advice about how to listen for these things when all tracks are playing?

[@TheKatchutes]

I wouldn't take that as gospel! Yes you want to listen and adjust eq and mainly volume levels in the context of the entire mix, but you can't get surgical without solo'ing! In my opinion

[@rupertcaney]

@@TheKatchutes Solo is needed for surgical eq yes, but all other decisions should be made in context of the mix

[@mimikoss]

boost vs cut to find problematic frequencies??

[@giulioboobzilla]

Both

[@JRS1235678]

I love this but I havent gotten the chart or a link in my email :(

[@sirwanmusic]

If you want i will send u. Give me anything for contact if u want

[@meimarceau]

damn, on those eq tutorials, the before and after isn't clear on this one though, it's like crystal