Originally Posted by
Jamie D Music
Using the EQ's can depend on the genre of music you are mixing. Recordings before the digital age can often benefit from a touch of EQ and you are basically digitally remastering it. Most modern tracks are well studio produced and are very responsive to EQ adjustments but there are older tracks that sound muffled until EQ is added and which gives new life to it. I'm talking about music that was produced decades ago when production budgets may have been tight. A lot of 90's rave and jungle I mix need the EQ's maxed out just to be listenable otherwise it would be like listening to them in the 90's. Some of these tracks have become iconic but most will have been bedroom produced or at most done at a shoestring studio. They sound terrible now without maxing out the EQ. Even then some are still unuseable.
Ideally I like All EQs to be set at 12 (neutral) so I have a small buffer to make adjustments. Too much EQ is a one way ticket to distortionville unless the track is old and needs all the help it can get.
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