Lesson 13 EQ - Posted on 2017-11-27 by Mike-Cole

I remember about ten months ago a friend told me that when I would work with my sessions within Cubase, the DAW that I was using at the time, I had to “EQ” my tracks. At the time I had no idea what he meant by that but I saw a plugin that said EQ and decided to mess around with it.

At first I would make significant boosts thinking that the point of this frequency processing was to alter the sound of the recording rather than bring out the frequencies that I really liked.

Another misconception that I had dealt with was that there was a right and wrong way to EQ a track. My mentor explained it perfectly when he said that asking someone how to EQ is like asking a painter what colors to use in your painting. There are millions of different variations in which a 1hz cut can change a song completely.

The last misconception that I had was that EQ had to be placed on every track. I had yet to learn that we have to make meaningful choices on what we EQ and that those choices will make big differences in what the mix is going to sound like and where we place certain instruments.