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Bringing out specific elements in a mix

Bringing out specific elements in a mix

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Bringing out specific elements in a mix

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It's surprising what a little bit of EQ can do to emphasize certain instruments during mastering. For instance, if we want to pull the kick drum out a little bit, usually most kick drums are centered around 80 Hz. So if we were to increase 80 a little bit, all of a sudden you will hear the kick jump out a little bit. Now I am going to actually add a lot more EQ than you normally would during mastering just so this is emphasized, but you will hear the kick increase pretty clearly. (music playing) Now you can hear the kick jump up a little bit, but so did the bass, and that's what will happen. One will affect the other because their frequencies are crossing over somewhat. The other thing that we will usually do it is with queue, if you are using a parametric equalizer, will narrow the queue, and that allows you to actually center in on the frequencies a little bit more. As a matter of fact, let's try that again, and we will narrow it even more and see if we can just zero in on the kick…

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