How To Use EQ
In the last installment of our Home Recording Basics series, we discussed how to best prep your tracks for the all important mixing process. Mixing is an art form that takes years of dedication and practice to learn and develop, and while it'd be impossible to cover every nuance of mixing in detail, the next set of posts in this series will give basic overviews of different mixing tools at your disposal.
Today, we're starting with an exploration of equalization.
An equalizer, or EQ, affects the tone of a signal by boosting or cutting different frequencies. In many ways, it is the best and most vital mixing tool of all. It can fix problems from the recording process, create separation between instruments, and even be used as a special effect.
Typically, EQs are broken into multiple frequency ranges or bands that control the low, low-mid, midrange, high-mid, and high-frequency ranges.
This is an excerpt from How To Use EQ, originally published by Reverb. Read the full version here.
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