How To Mix (part 3): How to EQ
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2017
- This mixing tutorial will show you how to properly use EQ while mixing a song in FL Studio. EQ is extremely important when mixing and mastering, in order to get a clean, crisp, and clear-sounding mix. EQ is perhaps the most important mixing tool available to you as a music producer, so it's important to learn how to use EQ properly if you want to get a good-sounding mix. When mixing a song, you want to ensure that all the sounds in the mix have their own place in the mix and that there are no clashing frequencies. That's not always possible though, so you'll typically have to use an EQ (equalizer) in order to take out some frequencies from some sounds, and boost other sounds in order to fill space in your mix.
You typically want to roll off the low-end on anything that's not intended to be a bass sound. You want to ensure that you don't get any build-up in any part of your frequency spectrum, like in the low-end, midrange, or high-end. That's why EQing is so important. Without EQ this becomes almost impossible to do. This mixing tutorial will show you how to properly use an EQ in order to get a crisp and clear mix that sounds professional. Learning how to EQ is by far the most important thing when it comes to mixing.
This video is part of my "how to mix" tutorial series, so make sure to check out the other videos as well when you're done with this one.
It will explain the various aspects involved in mixing and mastering in this mixing tutorial series.
EQ stands for "Equalize". is one of the most important tools available to you when it comes to mixing. This video will teach you the most important aspects of EQing.
EQ is extremely important in order to make a mix sound good.
There are many EQ's to choose from. Parametric EQ2, fabfilter pro q2 and so on. I'm curious: what kind of EQ do you prefer? And why? Let me know in the comments below! :)
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You literally taught me in 17 minutes what I had to master in 11 months, where the hell have you been all my life,why did I only discover this channel now?????
Thanks! :) I'm glad to hear that you found the video helpful! I tried my best to condense a rather vast topic into as little time as possible. :)
Here aswell man!
My thoughts exactly !
I know right?!?!
I said the same thing!! I had no idea what this did until now. It’s a WRAP!!
It's one thing to know your shit. It's quite another to know it and to be able to pass on your knowledge to newcomers so that they can digest it. The latter is very rare, and a surefire sign of someone who's brilliant at what they do. I suspect a lot of those who are watching this will be EDM producers one day. Thanks for this. Keep up the awesome content.
Thanks! Much appreciated! Glad you found the video helpful :)
I know right...that's totally true :)
This is the first of a series of tutorials about how to mix. More tutorials are on the way. They won't be made in the correct order, actually this will be part 3. If you'd like to support my work you can head over to my Patreon page and donate :)
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I was wondering where is part 1 because it is called part 2... ^^'
I can totally understand the confusion! The thing is, I had already started making a tutorial about how to EQ. But then I changed my mind and decided to make a "how to mix" series instead, which will consist of 4-5 tutorials. That's why the order is messed up.
Part 1 hasn't been made yet. Part 1 will deal with getting the levels right, gain staging and such. :)
I will make a dedicated playlist once they are all done.
I've watched many tutorials many hours , but this is the best one out there i guarantee , i never realized this was a big part of mixing.
Thank you !!
Thanks! Glad you liked the video! :)
>removes all the eq
>mix still sounds better than mine
Seriously though you make great tutorials. I'm not an FL Studio guy (I use Podium with live instruments) but your tutorials translate over perfectly for my music as well despite the genre and the DAW being different. I feel so much clarity in my mixes thanks to your help.
Thanks! Glad to hear that you found the video helpful, and on a side note, it's cool to see that people who use other daws can benefit from this too! :)
such a great tutorial man. 6 years ago when i began producing this video would have been super helpful! I was astounded by the legit explanation of the details in a professional manor. just adds to the quality of the tutorial. after this one i watch all of them. they are all GREAT. definantly will be showing some support on your patreon.
Thank you Jake! I really appreciate that! I spend a lot of time and money on these videos. If I could eventually break even, then it would be great. :)
When I started making music in the 90's, there were no such thing as tutorials. CZcams didn't even exist yet. Now days it's a totally different game. We now have daws and tutorials. But I found out that a lot of the tutorials had very little useful information, and tended to drag out the time a lot...
Some youtubers prefer to talk about their life, their dog and so on. And other tutorials are just simply plain wrong!
A friend of mine was struggling with this problem, so I decided to help him out by making a tutorial just for him. A tutorial that was as short, simple and straight to the point as possible. No babbling, just informative. Eventually other people started taking note of it as well.
And that's how it all began. Even though I loose money on every video I make I keep on doing it because I find it rewarding to be able to help people out, and get feedback like yours!
I'm very glad to hear that you liked the video, and I'm grateful that you decided to support my work on Patreon!
Thanks again! :)
@@FireWalkMusic that part where u said about other youtube tutorials and the amount of actually useful shit in it is so damn true. Unfortunately I don't earn yet. But I can assure you that My ethics will push me to support you first thing before i use any money i earn anywhere else.
Cheers
Max
@@FireWalkMusic I'd also like to ask you to check out this youtube channel called on cloud sine. His work is legit and similar to yours. Full on quality. No BS. Top notch tutorials.
why the huff did i go to college, ive learnt more in 17 mins than i ever did in 4 years of college. ive been following along editing the eq of a song and it sounds so much more full and and polished. im glad ive stumbled across this. new sub and ill be watching the whole series. i do like pro-q3 as you can use side eq and is faily essential when making hardstyle which is what im learning to make
Glad you found it helpful!
I had come back so many times to learned it over and over and over
Glad you found the video helpful! :)
I'm just fucking mindblown at how amazing these videos are, idk i just want to cry when i think about how perfect these are and how i wasted so much time on mixing and mastering videos that are not to the point, dont always make sense and not explaining everything you need to know like the fundementals. Anyway Thank you so much sir.
Thanks! Much appreciated! Glad you found the videos helpful :)
you are my favorite youtuber making tutorials! you explain everything clearly and have already helped me a lot in music production!
Thanks! Very much appreciated :)
Big guy you are, you dont even realise how much my production improved after just a couple of vids, thanks!!
Thanks! Glad to hear that you found it helpful :)
This channel has been coming in clutch for me for all my questions and skills I’ve been needing to learn. Very grateful for the videos man!
Thanks, glad you found it useful! :)
I love the way you do tutorials you don't dance around you get straight to the point
Thanks! Much appreciated :)
I've seen a lot of tutorials talking about mixing properly and I finally understand it thanks to this video!
Glad to hear it :)
really nice and clear tutorial, thank you!
The best part from your work is that you produce trance ❤️
Thanks! Always a pleasure to see other people who enjoy trance as much as I do :)
most useful 17 minutes of my life . Thanx m8 and keep up the good work !!!
Thanks, glad you found it useful! :)
I appreciate your videos because they are direct and to the point. Thanks
Awesome tutorial in every way, so helpful 😄
Glad you liked it :)
Most of the videos on internet will teach you how to mix but this is what i needed i needed why ?
loved it ❤
This Tutorial is Awesome. Its the best tutorial i've ever seen
Thanks, much appreciated :)
thank you man . . really appreciate that you're straight to the point, no extra funny bs on your videos. i've noticed you tend to explain all the basic fundamentals very well and i'm very grateful for channels like yours as a complete beginner to all of this. definitely will be a long term sub , thank you !
Hi, thanks! Much appreciated! :)
So interesting to see and hear what huge difference some specific EQ point can / will make.
I knew Eq was powerful, but i could and still cant find the right spots for the Eq's.
People like you, make it look so easy, that i feel like a complete idiot every time i watch a video like this.
Last time i wanted to make a remix or bootleg, i ended up deleting everyting i worked on for like 7 days, just because i could not get everything work together.
i hope i can start creating stuff that actualy sounds nice, because you have put a huge load of effort into this tutorial series, and what could be better then get projects from subscribers back, to show their results.
Thnx for making this series, and for sharing the knowledge.
much Love from NL ;-)
keep on going, sometimes I've messed up like you, man. but that can't stop me PS. every master ware came from idiot, (i thing so)
Easily the best mixing tutorial series around mate and I've seen a good few lol, well done man and thanks a ton 🙏
Thanks, you're welcome :)
Thank you for the tutorial, it will help me as a beginner. I dislike mixing and mastering tracks because I never seem to make it sound how I want it. Your explanations were better than all the tutorials I have seen. The good thing is that you tell us why we are doing something and the benefits of performing the task. The way you split the eq into low, mid low, mid and high was fantastic because the eq doesn't show the different frquency elements so a beginner like myself would not know.
Keep up the good work
Thanks for that great feedback! :) I try very hard to make these tutorials as simple and straight to the point as possible, and at the same time as short as possible without neglecting anything important. :)
I've seen plenty of tutorials on how to do this, but this is the first time I really feel like I understood it! thanks!!! :)
Thanks! :)
Just checked some of your tutorials and have to say that you make the best tutorials I've ever seen! I almost checked out all of them and now I start all over again watching them multiple times to keep everything in mind... I can't wait for more other tutorials. Keep up the AWESOME work! :)
Thanks, very much appreciated! I try my best to make these videos as short, simple and straight to the point as possible. :)
This channel is super underrated :
Thanks! :)
Just made a quick donation because this tutorial as wells as the other mixing tutorials are fire! So hot!
Thanks you! Very much appreciated 😀 glad to hear that you like the tutorials 🙂
You re my 1st favorite youtube channel. Your mix series are awesome.
Thank you! Much appreciated :)
Firewalk. The gem channel i found a few weeks ago. It is one thing to know things. It is another to be able to teach that to others. This channel and "In the mix" channel is all i need for everything that i still need to learn or improve. Thank you very much.
Thanks! Glad you find the videos useful! The aim has always been to take something that might seem complicated and make it as simple as possible. I'm glad to see that it's working, so thanks a lot for your feedback! :)
merci pour vos explications
This channel is gold!
Thanks! Much appreciated! :)
Definitely the best tips ever , wish I had seen this long time ago . Thank you for the great tutorial . Helped me a lot .
Glad you found it useful. You should also check out this video: czcams.com/video/-mx7p5lUR9E/video.html
Really great information to work with. Super explanations about frequencies and so on.
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
what a great video that is....thanks for sharing the knowledge. Keep up the good work
Thanks, glad you liked it 😀
These guidelines are all excellent and your videos are very high quality in terms of efficiently explaining and demonstrating the topic. I've been producing for 20+ years, but for those first 10 the technicals of mixing and mastering, beyond level setting, were not even on my radar! But then for these past 10 years I've progressively understood and applied mixing and mastering on a surface level. Now I'm at that point where I'm understanding the need to take it even deeper because I want my music to really stand out and have that polish and sparkle. Mixing and Mastering really is an artform, a knowledge-based skill, and one that can only be perfected through much experience. (I have huge respect for the masters!) I'm not at the level I want to be yet but I've come a long way (and for anyone reading this, if you are new to producing, make sure you take note of mixing and mastering off the bat cuz it will go a long way in helping you improve your sound). As for you Firewalk, Thanks for your videos man, I'm gleaning a lot from them, and with each one I can feel my skill arsenal becoming progressively more refined! Power levels approaching 9000!!!!
Thank you so much bro, i've learned a lot from this three videos about "How to mix". Now i'm sure that i'm gonna do this extremely important process with more patience, knowledge and as you said trying to be better practicing and practicing and practicing... Lots of hugs!!
Glad you found them helpful. There will be more videos in this series in the future, as soon as I get some more time on my hands. :)
HUGE HUGE HUGE FAN OF ALL YOUR WORK (Tracks) !
Your tuts are a boon !
If you remember me, I'm that guy who came across your (trance bassline tut) video while searching for bass-line tutorials (and put a comment about the wonderful bass-line you had even in that tut!) and got inspired to make trance tracks actually! I am a hardcore trance (and your) fan since then!
Your tracks are a MAGIC ! I follow you on soundcloud as well !
I heartily request you to upload the full track in this tutorial AND THE ONE IN "HOW TO MIX (PART 2)" as well, so that I can listen to them for hours.
I wish you didn't keep your musical wonders, like the ones in the above mentioned videos, under cover. I will LOVE to listen to those tracks and share my favorite youtuber's work!
I am absolutely eager to at least know whether I will be able to listen to those 2 trance songs at all......
I'm putting those tuts on repeat just in order to listen to those tracks ! Imagine......
Hi! Glad to hear that you like the videos and the music too!
Unfortunately this is not a released track. I rarely use released tracks in my videos in order to avoid any copyright strikes on my channel. The thing is, even if I use my own tracks in the videos, they will usually be released by a record label, which basically owns the rights to it from that point, and then it's often out of my hands if they want to put a claim on the video or not. Therefore, I usually either use old unfinished projects for my videos, or I just come up with something for the purpose of that video. Typically just an 8 bar section or something. :)
I do have a playlist with my a few of my own released tracks here on my channel though, if you want to check them out: czcams.com/play/PLHXwArmcoXTgyUNrfr9wUODXZrL2Ir_lB.html
@@FireWalkMusic First of all, thank you for a quick response!
Even though, those tracks are unfinished, the leads are so catchy & the sound design is so perfect & clean I swear! I really appreciate & respect the time & effort you put into the music production. I'm a student right now, but I will do my best to support your work through patreon & I always share the masterpieces you create! I heartily wish a lot of success to you in everything you do in your life ahead! God bless you!
@@saketjoshi4476 Thanks! I really appreciate that! It motivates me to keep on doing what I do, so thank you again! :)
@@FireWalkMusic my pleasure !
BEST TEACHER HANDS DOWN
Thanks, much appreciated :)
Very well explained
Had a piano beat track already mixed with all the knowledge I gained by myself/trying stuff out while watching the "How to mix" series. Tried to mix it after your guidelines when I watched and it came out so much clearer and better. Really nice tutorials and explanations in detail on each certain element of mixing.
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful! :)
wow amazing series. I love your sounds FW!!!
man!!! This was an amazing series, JUST what I've been trying to understand!! THANKS so much!
Thanks, glad you liked it. :)
I love your tutorials man. New subscriber :)
Thanks! :)
I'm glad to finally found a channel proposing decent tutorials. Moreover the fact you don't have a big audition yet is very satisfying aha
Glad you liked the videos :) There's so many tutorials on youtube where they never get to the point. They keep going on and on about their life and their pet and so on. I decided to take matters into my own hands :p
Thank you so much for this sir!! This is by far the best video I seen in EQ
You're welcome! Glad you liked it! :)
Hey firewalk, thanks for sharing this great stuff! 👍
You're welcome :)
Great tutorial sir 🔥🔥 it helped me a lot in mixing and mastering
Glad to hear it :) Thanks
Damn that was one of the best tutorials I have ever encountered. Instant subscriber
Thanks, much appreciated :)
Great tutorials man, cant wait for more learnt so much
Thanks! Glad you liked them :)
Thanks soo much...you guys explain everything so well !!!
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful 🙂
Wow finally some quality tips on working with FL Studio. Actually I wanted to watch just one video but now I have already seen 4 and I can't stop because they are so understandable and professional explained with good examples. Although I make my mixes in NI's Maschine software I always use FL to make my mastering. Great content in your FL videos. Thank you very much.
Thanks, glad to hear you find the videos helpful :)
Priceless knowledge ♥️
Dude..! you are just awesome. found this channel yesterday. very very understandable content! I find all this very helpful, subbed to your channel and i'll support you in any way i can!
Thanks, glad to hear it :)
THIS IS LITERALLY THE MOST CRUCIAL VIDEO FOR ANYONE LEARNING TO MIX. like wow!! absolutely amazing
Glad you liked it! 😀
Great information!
My fav EQ is the Parametric EQ2 i'm using it, in every single mixer channel.
Thank you very much! :)
You're welcome. :)
Is a first time for me to know how EQ can use thank you for ur video is very useful for me
You're welcome :)
Great Video. I have been having trouble with mixing your vids have been helping me.
Glad you found it helpful:)
I like Fruity parametric EQ most !
thanks for the amazing video !
You're welcome :)
I just want to say big "Thank You Sir".... I was getting little bit frustrated before I came across your videos... I truly appreciate your help.. Thank you once again...
You're welcome :)
This is still 100% valid in 2022. Thanks for the tips!
Back again but on another account, my main man. Keep making them platinum tutorial hits, over&out.
Thanks, I will :)
Youre amazing at explaining this and making simple. Thanks!
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful 😀
thank you firewalk...
your work is really helpful...
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
You are awesome, keep doing what you do man. I love it😁👍🏻
Thanks! Much appreciated :)
Awesomely explained, had so much confusion regarding EQ but you did a great job, I am very impressed, subbed and liked my friend, thank you so much :)
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
I'm just goin through your older tutorials... Dud, YOU ARE amazing! :D
Thanks! glad you found it helpful :)
10 ppl don't wanna face the facts about Equing and themselves.
Haha truly they don’t:3
Great Videos! Thx for the uploads!
Thank you, much appreciated :)
I'll be patient to wait for next
Thanks :)
Thank you again!
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Unbelieveable tutorial. Thank you!
Glad you liked it :)
That was very helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome :)
i appreciate your help honestly that's was really helpful
You're welcome. Glad you found it helpful :)
Your videos are life changing.
Glad to hear it :)
You have super channel and videos my Sir 🙌
Thank you so much! Great tutorials! :)
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
Great job. I learned
Glad you liked it :)
Thank you so much for the mixing tutorials sir..... Very well explained.. Please make a video mastering
Thanks. I will, the mixing series is not finished yet :)
Thanks for the motivation!
You're welcome :)
Thank you sir. you just got a subscriber. you are a great teacher.
You're welcome. Glad you liked it :)
Great Tutorial
Thanks :)
Appreciate ur's work man❤️.! Lots of luv from INDIA🇮🇳
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Awesome man!
Glad you liked it :)
so nice tutorials and easy to follow! thank you! is very hard to find a tutorial done well!
Thanks, glad you liked it :)
My question answered! Thanks
Glad you found it helpful 😀
Very good tutorials *thumbs up*
Thanks :)
even without eq it still sounds a million times better than what i make
Oh man, Your #Sound ♥ reminds me of my early electronic music days. Those typical days of #ClassicTrance. You're really are a Pro 🎖
Thanks! Glad you liked it :)
thanks man i learn a lot from your video's :)
You're welcome. Glad to hear that you found it useful :)
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duuuuuuudeeeee you are so good at have people understand what you are talking about, thumbs up and thank you
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thank you for this video it's hella good
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your tutorials are by far the best iv ever seen. can you do one on mono compatibility. i have a lot of problems with it
Thanks! Yes, I have a video on mono planned.
FireWalk thanks heaps man
Good one! Thanks!
Thanks :)
thanks for this free lesson. im really learning a lot sir..completed your 2.38 hour long sound design course too. by the way i use stock eq plugin in fl for eqing the frequencies... thanks a lot sir
That was extremely helpful! Thank you so much for this video, I'm only a beginner and although I still don't 100% clearly understand everything but I do have a very good idea and a good foundation, but I'm not sure on how to apply everything you mentioned about EQ in FL mobile! Can you do a video on that? That would be excellent!
Thanks, glad you found it useful. I focus mainly on the desktop version of FL Studio. I might make a video for mobile at some point though.
Cool, thanks for the quick reply! Another question, do you think the EQ applies more or less with making hip hop instrumentals? Whereas im only mixing with between 3 and 5 different elements at a time
EQing should usually always be applied. But when you have very few elements in a mix, you don't need to EQ so agressively. Better just leave some of that high and low end in there instead of cutting it , otherwice it will sound thin and harsh. In a very busy mix on the other hand you typically want to make as much room as you can.
Brother Thank you so much .All the respects