ATTENTION: Musicians, Producers, and Audio Engineers
Discover How To Find the Right Frequencies So You Can Create Clean, Clear, and Powerful Music People Love
Here’s The Easiest Way to Master the EQ Spectrum and Create Separation Between Your Instruments and Balance in Your Mixes
Think back to your last mix, did it sound anything like this?
In short, did you feel defeated by how muddy and weak it sounded?
If so, keep reading to discover how you can finally fix your muddy mixes so that your music sounds like your favorite records.
From: The home studio of Björgvin Benediktsson, author, mixing engineer, and founder of Audio Issues.
If you struggle to create depth, balance, and separation in your songs, but you don't know how to make your mixes explode from the speakers like your favorite records - you're not alone.
If you're like most of my students, you run into the same problems every time:
- You can't fit all the instruments together because you don't know where they sit in the frequency range.
- You clutter up your low-end because the bass constantly clashes with your kick drum.
- You don't know how to separate the guitars from each other so they just sound like a muddy mess.
And most importantly, you can't get that big present vocal sound you hear from your favorite artists.
You're getting fed up with mixing because your songs never sound professional enough.
Mixing feels like a never-ending balancing act.
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When you focus on the low-mids, your mix sounds muddy.
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Whenever you add high-end, your mix sounds harsh.
You don't know how much you should boost or cut frequencies to get the sound you hear in your head.
You've tried all sorts of different techniques you've read in blogs or watched on Youtube, but the more you jump from one trick to another, the more contradictory the advice feels. Some people tell you that you should only use subtractive EQ, even though you feel like boosting makes everything sound better.
The problem is, you're scared of damaging your mix because you're never sure whether you're doing the right things to make your mixes clean and present.
You wish somebody would just tell you where the EQ sweet spots were so you could move on.
Instead, they just tell you to "use your ears" when all you want is real, actionable advice.
Even when you know for a fact that you're making your mix sound better, you can't stop EQ'ing because you never know when you're done!
I understand your frustrations completely. I've been there.
Let Me Give You My EQ Shortcuts...
Hi, I'm Björgvin Benediktsson and I'm the musician, mixing engineer, and audio educator behind Audio Issues.
I've been helping people like you since 2009 turn your amateur demos into professionally produced records you can be proud to release.
My mixing techniques have helped thousands of musicians and producers gain the confidence and skills to make professional mixes they can be proud of.
They've used their mixing skills to successfully release their own records and some have used their new-found mixing skills to get paying jobs from their home studios.
I’ve created over 1,000 tutorials on audio production, both for Audio Issues and for other audio publications such as MusicTech magazine, Audiotuts+, The Pro Audio Files, and Recording Revolution to name a few.
How You Can Master the Frequency Spectrum
When I first started out, I had no idea how to use an EQ to make clearer mixes and in a word, I sucked at it big time.
EQ was like a foreign programming language that only cool engineers understood.
But me?
- My kick drum kept clashing with my bass guitar.
- My guitars masked the vocals
- My entire drum sound always sounded like a harsh, exhausting mess.
I'm sure you've tried to tame the harshness in your mix only to make it sound muddy instead.
Let me tell you, my first audio job started off as a disaster...
Way back in 2006, I randomly found myself hired as a sound engineer at this small venue called The Old Library. It was a cool spot, but it had a terrible reputation for its sound. It was the venue bands were forced to play if there was absolutely nowhere else to go.
Little did they know that they weren't exactly hiring someone who knew what he was doing.
I got thrown into the deep end and I did NOT know how to swim...
That's when I met my first nemesis...
The simple, four-band EQ on my mixing board.
I had no idea how - or where - I should boost or cut frequencies to make the bands sound better.
So I used the only method available to me then: Trial and Error.
Learning to EQ by desperately twisting knobs back and forth in a dimly lit venue isn’t the best way to learn to EQ. I could hardly see what I was doing!
And since I didn’t have a clue, there was a lot of fumbling around in the dark.
Sure, any time I tweaked the EQ, the sound of the mix changed.
Sometimes for the better, but most of the time for the worse.
After a while, I learned how understanding frequencies was like learning the right chord progression for a song, or the right scales to use during a solo.
Understanding frequencies was like having a cheat sheet for making your mixes sound good!
But it wasn't until I had spent hours behind that mixing board and studied what each frequency sounded like that I finally got it:
EQ is the MOST IMPORTANT mixing processor for creating separation and balance in your mixes.
EQ helped me transform that music venue from its reputation for having terrible sound to becoming an in-demand spot where all the coolest bands wanted to play.
But I wouldn't have been able to make those shows sound so great if it wasn't for the EQ.
Understanding EQ wasn’t a choice, it was a necessity to make anything sound good.
I learned that EQ can help you in any mixing situation.
Since then I've mastered the frequency spectrum.
I've learned how to wipe the mud off even the busiest mixes, leaving them clean, clear, and professional.
Today, my kick drum doesn't clash with the bass guitar anymore. Instead, they work like a well-oiled rhythm machine, keeping the mix clean and thick in the low-end. I know exactly how to EQ the instruments out of the way of the vocal while keeping everything clean and present.
When you learn how to EQ, the rest of the mix easily falls into place.
Once you discover how to fix the EQ problems, your mixing skills will skyrocket!
That's what happened to me, and that's what I want to help you accomplish as well
All it takes is a little knowledge and a blueprint of where to go.
EQ will help you create space for your instruments
With only a few EQ tweaks you can finally get your instruments to really punch through.
EQ will add definition to your tracks
EQ will help you make everything fit together for a cleaner mix.
Even if you're only a hobbyist, you still need to master the frequency spectrum
EQ helps you create:
- Clarity between your drums and bass...
- Separation between your instruments and your vocal productions...
- And balance between the lows, mids, and highs...
Once you learn how to EQ, you can wipe out the boxiness and mud from your mixes.
Forget about thin-sounding vocals, boomy bass, or harsh guitars!
With the correct EQ moves, you can make every instrument sound exactly the way you want it to.
- EQ helps you create punchy low-end and sparkling highs.
- EQ helps you separate guitars and vocals so that you hear them distinctly in all their detail.
- EQ cleans up your low-end, making the kick drum and the bass help other fill out the lows instead of clashing to create a muddy mix.
In short, EQ clears up your mix and helps you create a full frequency balance where all your instruments stand out
And best of all...you're so close to figuring it all out...
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"If you are trying to wrap your head around EQ, how to apply EQ in order to get way better tracks and much better sounding complete songs, EQ Strategies is what you are looking for."
"Bjorgvin knows what we need to know, and he shares it all, in easy to understand, easy to digest bites. Bjorgvin explains filtering, boosting, cutting, notch filters, bell curves, and “Q”, how to “sweep” or find frequencies that need cutting, and so much more, and all of it in very good detail, with audio examples. “EQ Strategies for EQ’ing a song”...This important video is an hour of deep EQ teaching, so please do not skip this part! Bjorgvin opens up a real multi-track session and goes through the tracks, one at a time, and explains exactly what each EQ is doing. Bjorgvin begins with a quick “before and after” play, without EQ and then with EQ, just to demonstrate how powerful EQ really is. The difference is nothing short of incredible. Bjorgvin is a great teacher, too, and that really lends to the level of training that is unfolding here inside EQ Strategies. If you are trying to wrap your head around EQ, how to apply EQ in order to get way better tracks and much better sounding complete songs, EQ Strategies is what you are looking for."
-Kern Ramsdell, Engineer and Reviewer from Home Recording Weekly
What Will You Learn From Your Ultimate Guide to EQ?
How to Understand and Hear What Frequencies Sound Like
- How EQ works and where you can find all the frequency problems you encounter in your mixes
How to Use EQ Effectively in Your Mixes
How to Use EQ to Make Your Drums Punchy and Powerful
- How to EQ kick drums to get rid of muddy resonances while keeping them thick and punchy
How to EQ a Thick and Powerful Bass
How to Add Weight, Body, and Presence to Guitars Using EQ
- How to EQ groups of both acoustic and electric guitars to give each one their own space in the frequency spectrum
How to Make Pianos, Keyboards, Horns and Strings Sound Great
How to Make Your Vocals Cut Through the Mix With Presence and Power
- How to use mid/side EQ on backing vocals to make room for the lead vocals in a dense vocal mix
How to EQ the Mix Together and Create Separation Between All the Instruments of a Busy Mix
- The opposite way you should EQ depending on how many instruments you have
- How to add character and sweetening to the mix with EQ
- How to get clarity in the low-end without losing weight in your mixes
- The only mantra you’ll need for great EQ fixes
- How to use the analyzer to find where your instruments are clashing
- The importance of using EQ on reverbs to avoid cluttering up your mix
- How to use EQ to get your mixes to translate to every speaker system
"A few of the tips I got from the course really did make a noticeable difference in a couple of projects I am working on."
"The impression I got from the Course, and from your site in general, is that you are one of the rare few who has both the ability to understand complex technical concepts and the ability to effectively communicate them in common, everyday language. A few of the tips I got from the course really did make a noticeable difference in a couple of projects I am working on. The course gave me a good sense of your style and the fact that there so much useful information for free led me to believe that the stuff you have to pay for must be really great (which I later found to be true)...I am very impressed with everything. The quality of the material is fantastic and the publications are beautiful. The graphics, the layout, the videos are all very impressive. It really is a lot for the money and I am really excited about learning. Thank you very much."
David Cox, Home Studio Musician, and Engineer
"really changed the way I approach music: like EQ'ing the reverb and delay effects themselves to avoid conflicts on different frequencies."
"The EQ Course was eye-opening in many ways. Having had basically no previous information on mixing, the course really gave me a sense of how essential EQ'ing is to the process. It helped me take my mixes from muddy and boomy to fairly clear, and definitely helped me get some punch into kicks and basses. Some really basic things that I hadn't even considered, which really changed the way I approach music: like EQ'ing the reverb and delay effects themselves to avoid conflicts on different frequencies...it does an effective job of squeezing much information into little time, and the formulations are clear and pedagogical. The amount of useful information I gained from the course was impressive and I am extremely grateful for having been given these gems!"
Maximillian, Home Studio Producer
"I'm able to get a clean and tight low end on this song I'm working on."
"The EQ tips that have helped the most have to do with the bass guitar and kick drum. I'm able to get a clean and tight low end on this song I'm working on. I cut some of the mud out of the kick and bass, then I let the kick have a little extra 50 Hz and added a little bit around 800 Hz on the bass guitar. That made the low end clear and punchy. This song has an acoustic guitar as one of the main instruments and I decided to put an HPF up to 200 Hz and added a little bit around 3 kHz and it sounds good so far. This is a great guide to get things moving in the right direction!!! Thank You!!!!"
Jeff Smith, Mixing Engineer
"A superbly comprehensive and humorously written book by someone with lots of practical experience,"
"An immediate and hugely practical understanding of the frequency spectrum and fantastic examples of positive and negative aspects of the key audio frequency bands as related to achieving better mixes. A superbly comprehensive and humorously written book by someone with lots of practical experience, that beats many video tutorials on this subject. Plus you can have a comprehensively indexed pdf to hand for quick referencing while mixing without needing to fire up a video tutorial and scrub through the timeline hoping to find what you're looking for! I was a beta reader for the eBook and I liked the content so much I bought the full course!"
Alan Doyle, Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Score Developer
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"The format helped me solidify the basics very quickly. I sampled a few sessions with the concepts and found an immediate and pronounced improvement. Full of tips that are immediately useful...the initial results are immediate and impressive....thanks."
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"All Very Helpful"
"I like the specific EQ tips for each instrument. They're all very helpful and I learned quite a few new things: bass harmonics, how to make the beaters pop on kick drums, adding more punch to snare drums, and tips to make guitars sit better in the mix (which also works for lead synths)."
-Joseph Litherland
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- You don't need to worry about muddy mixes any more because you'll know exactly how to clean up your low-mids.
- You don't need to worry about a boxy drum sound because you know exactly how to EQ your drums to make them sound smoother.
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