MID SIDE EQ - What, Why & When? - FL Studio Only Stock Tutorial

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Hi, I'm Max and I run FL Studio Tips.
Today I will show you everything about Mid-Side EQ. It's not so easy to understand if you're starting out so I made sure there is no way you finish this video without a clear understanding of what Mid-Side EQ is. We're also exploring how Mid Side is made and how to make make mid side eq using only stock plugins.
You can use these Mid Side for Mixing and Mastering every genre, such as dubstep, progressive house, future house, drum and bass, hip-hop, RnB, bass house, deep house, hard trap & many more!
Stamps:
00:00 - What is Mid-Side EQ and How it works?
3:03 - How to Make Stock Mid Side EQ?
4:55 - How to Use Mid Side EQ, When and on What? - Cleaning
7:26 - Mid Side EQ Use Case - Side Enhancement
8:50 - Mid Side EQ on Vocals
10:40 - Mid Side EQ on Drums
12:17 - Mid Side EQ on Master
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[@Overxpossed]

This is so fundamental... I figured why my tracks sounded kind of muddy or lacky of punchiness, started to search why; some person told me it wasn't related to the EQ, but to this, which I had found by investigating. So now I'm lacking of mids. I do love doing tranceish sounds, which are usually very wide and stereo, and now I see what I was doing "wrong". I was putting too much stuff in the sides, the kick was only in the mid with a bass and that didn't sound glued.

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[@One_of_Many750]

This Really Breaks Down Mid/Side EQ, To A Degree That It’s FAR MORE UNDERSTANDABLE!!! Going To Apply This Using Patcher. Thank You Good Sir!!!

[@danic.3760]

Personally I use the Ozone mid-side EQ, it's amazing, but with this video now I have a better understanding of the concept, nice job as always ;)

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[@mc67muzik56]

I have never used mid side eq and i needed this video honestly

[@DYREF]

Same here

[@helpniggv]

Me too but I still don't know how to use it.u didn't understood

[@Overxpossed]

@@helpniggv It's easy. I also found it hard to understand. First, you have your signal, let say, a pure saw wave. That saw sounds equal in left and right speakers, which means = Mono or Mid (it's perceived as it is in the mid in front of you, as if there were only one speaker in front of you). In order to create Stereo, one of the speakers should delay the signal less than 3ms or less to create the stereo feeling. So natively, everything is Mono, and by adding more ms, then the Stereo feeling increases. With this method, you can split one signal into two signals, which is the Mid/mono one, in front of you, and the Side one, at the sides of your head, and apply different tweaks to each signal. As rule, bass goes in the mids, and pads and bright sounds in the sides, so you can check and tweak each part. This applies when you are mastering a track that has already everything mixed and equalised. I'm mastering my first track and by using this method, I found why it lacks of solidity. I have almost nothing in the mids but the bass and the kick. I was fueling the mid with a super loud and beefy kick. Now I know I have to add more instruments to the mid, specially bass ones.

[@solomonjoseph8608]

@@Overxpossed well explained man. Thanks for this.

[@Overxpossed]

@@solomonjoseph8608 very welcome mate. Another tip is also to use some stereo tool, like the stereo shaper from IL, or the Channel Mixer from kHs; Stereo also works and it's much simplier to use. For example, grab a track and put it in your DAW and add an stereo Utility to that channel. The one from kHs is pretty traight forward. You have two knob: Mid and Width. Since the track is already mastered, if you turn off the Mid Knob, then you will hear all the ignal that sounds stereo, at the sides of your head; if you turn off the Width one, then you will hear only the stuff which is in the mids. And from there, you can figure which frequencies are in the mids and which are not, and how both things are balanced to create depth and not an smudgy mix. Said this, you can also create more room for more frequencies, avoiding them to clash among themselves. I have heard some music and found also when some sort of Fxs or details appear, they are only in the sides, or sometimes the bass lives the mids and goes to the sides, then again to the mid after a drop. Things like that too.

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[@Novous]

mid-side is another term for sum-difference which is used in lots of stuff. What's in common, and what's not in common.

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[@ericktellez7632]

one thing i would add though for the people reading is that these corrections are being done in Solo mostly to show how midside affects audio, however in your production always try and do processing while the mix is playing so you do changes according to the context of the mix not to make the solo audio sound better, since it might not fit with your mix.

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I never used Mid-side EQ... And now I am struggling with my 114 channels project... I think, this will change my life :D Thanks!

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Good day max hopefully you doing well Can you apply Mid-side eq on all of your Busses(Drum Buss,pluck buss, etc)??

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[@empyric949]

Would you normally throw mid side on the master just in general? Even if it’s only minor changes like you said

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[@cedricblomhof1269]

So it’s useful to set it on your buss channel to optimal your sound and on the master channel the whole side eq?

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can we get a tutorial on pads? i can never figure them out. i never know what kinda pad to search for or even how to make my own pads.

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Haven't used it fam..bit too shabby but hopefully I understand soon

[@DJwizz76]

I've tried this technique before a long time ago, used to do it for years. You'd be better off getting Fab Filter Pro Q 3 for this honestly. Way better results.

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[@JoKeR808]

How can I apply an EQ on the right only or only left

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[@florianstrobel9065]

But why should I cut the Highs on my Mid Chanel? Think Mid-Side EQ make sense if you want to cut the lows on the sie chanel...

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[@zsombigregor]

Is the low-cut in the sides replacable with making all the low frquencies(like..below 250Hz)mono with a maximus on the master track?

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[@itsisma6228]

When i use midside EQ i only have signal on mid ! there is no signal in side channel (EQ) i hear just Reverb ! can you please explain me why !

[@agus9807]

I hope somebody reads that but if i use the side splitter the sides sounds mono. I have a left and right vocal channel both panned and these go in a srcond channel with the splitter on it .

[@Mesdeep_LoFi]

Can you do mid side OTT tutorial?

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What if you only have fruity Fire Edition... And you can't use Patcher... 🤔.. I know I should get all plug-in edition.. prices is a little steep at the moment.. It'd be really cool if you did a video on doing advanced things with small additions...

[@exeza]

Thank you for the video! Where should I put MID/SIDE EQ in a chain? I mean before or after common EQ, Reverb etc.

[@Overxpossed]

in the master, under everything you have.

[@exeza]

@@Overxpossed thank you for your answer!

[@Overxpossed]

@@exeza your'e welcome!

[@Overxpossed]

@@exeza By the way, you can also mid/side EQ your synths or instruments too, as well, applying effects to each. For example, it's commonly used to put reverb on the sides instead of in the mid, while other effects are used to be used with the mids and not with the sides. Regarding EQ, you will like to have the low end of frequencies parts in the mid, and the high end of them in the sides. So bass need to be put in the mids regarding the stereo field. Snares too, even thoug they are crispy or more into the 500 Hz domain, they remain at the mids. It's also related to how punchier you want your mix. If the snare or kick is in the sides kind like you won't hear them as much and impactful if they're in the sides. Yet the snare can be in both; the body of the snare in the mid, the crispier sound if it at the sides.

[@exeza]

@@Overxpossed thank you again!

[@Southside706]

how do i even get a better ear for this type of stuff. i hear it when you show the difference. but before people talk about things being "muddy" or anything i usually cant tell or maybe hear something is wrong but cant pin point it

[@gispee]

for some reason the histogram and heatmap arent visible in my side eq but when I change the graph it definitely works, anyone know why that might happening? yes i have made sure they are enabled

[@AKSAVAGE646]

when u master with mid side eq, do u change the stereo settings to stereoize it

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[@tomaszigor3117]

We do it only on a Master Channel, right? In mastering

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[@robinj9631]

when i double click on the side eq in the patcher the eq doesnt open. any suggestions ?

[@Destroonthebeat]

Do i cut the all the side on a bass (808)?? Or just the first 300 or so

[@ALDVIR]

Can you please tell me where to find the song that starts playing at 0:16 ? The piano? PLEASS

[@candymansound6136]

I am abit slow and I cant get my head around it but I get what hes doing and I could never do that. How much u charge for mix

[@Pyrokingz16]

interesting a quick question i routed the mix bus twice on two separate channels of the mixer and used stereo shaper on both .On one channel i put the mid option the other channel sides option then i balanced to taste is this a viable thing lol

[@mehmetabdullah250]

You can do it with 1 stereo shaper on the main channel with mid side preset in the stereo shaper just make sure you sidechain the main channel into another one. And yes it is viable. I do that sometimes to the songs to boost sides when you almost match mid and side volume levels it sounds very pleasant yo me, with headphones of course. İt would be too muddy with speakers.

[@Ivannbeats]

ngl i like stereo low end

[@ALDVIR]

Could you achieve this by sending your bus to 2 tracks and making one mono and one stereo through the mixer? And disconnect the bus from the master

[@shirsha5710]

Unfortunately, no. That's not how you'd go about it anyways. In case you want to use Mid-Side processing by having the Mid of the sound in one mixer track and the Side in another, there is a way to do so. What you'd do in this case is route the mixer track containing the sound(s) to which you want to apply Mid-Side processing to two other mixer tracks. In both of them open the Fruity Stereo Shaper. Choose the preset Mid in the mixer track with the Mids, and choose the preset aSide in the other one. Then, you can process the Mids and Sides separately in the mixer. Although, I'd always recommend Patcher for parallel processing like this. But, you do you.

[@808chadda]

Do you have any videos on FL mobile?

[@abelgutierrez1283]

Brother, I don't hear any difference in sound during your demonstrations. Please help. I know Mid/Side eq'ing is a fundamental tool and works well, but for some reason I just can't hear any difference. KZbin compression? Untrained ears? Bad audio equipment? I have studio monitors and headphones, so I doubt it's gear.

[@anishsunuwar5335]

Dammnn I had never used mid side eq while struggling for good mix lol....I missed out the mandatory need....