Recording school, 1st semester: : It's easier to move a microphone 1", than it is to fiddle with the best EQ.

JUSTIN! I love you !!! Thank you for making engineering so much more of a blessing than it already is - and for helping me truly grasp concepts that I otherwise would not be able to - you are a gem to the world - and such such such a powerfully important role in so many of our lives. I genuinely think you are one of the most special humans ever - there is a certain spark to your charisma that translates so effortlessly in everything you say and do. I don't know how you even have the energy to put these videos out nonstoP! I really need to step my game up haha!

What I learned from studio classes I took 40 years ago is that any analog EQ - cheap or expensive / $200 board or $500,000 board - employs a physically, or more importantly, an electronically "longer" signal path when boosting frequencies then when cutting frequencies.

All worth the time. Thanks. Especially @ minute 23: Great takeaways.

Tchad Blake really turned me on to creative phase distortion. Once you get a feel for it, it opens up a whole new world of fun. He likes to talk about SansAmp, but phase rotators on multi-mic setups are also powerful tools.

Great like always Justin!!!

Great video Justin. Thank you.

maaaan that final tip is gold. Such a simple concept that I'm constantly trying to remind myself of. "Maybe I don't need to EQ this... maybe I just need to balance the level". Thanks as always!!

Thanks for this video! I always have these myths in the back of my mind, but I’ve also learned to just make the track sound good.

When you cut frequencies that need it on a source first, especially mud and low rumble, it's going to open up the mids and highs somewhat, so you may find yourself not having to boost quite as much in those areas if you hadn't cut first. I think the main reason it's preached so much, is because as a new mixer, you're going to have a tendency to boost way too much, especially high end, but lows as well. If you get someone new to think about cutting out the bad first, they may in turn make better decisions when boosting.

Excellent 👏🏻

Love it💯

toss in: ALWAYS COMPRESS BEFORE EQ (because the eq will undo your eq). this is a blind alley. i like eqing into compression and probably do this more often than not… i want to shape what the compressor sees. and i can get artsy with it.

Wish I had watched this a month or so ago. KZfaq is awash with people claiming to be professional or handing out unimportant advice. Like so many of your videos this has answered so many questions I've been asking and quite often fallen down a rabbit hole chasing something that's not actually that important. Thanks again

"Mixing is a lot like an orange: first you have the skin.....and the sweet sweet inner..." 🍊

Idea for a if it fits your content is choosing a Mic for a different source. Especially vocals and different guitar sounds.

The concept of never boosting EQ comes from live sound reinforcement, where if you boost eq while playing back through stage wedges, the possibilities of runaway feedback are multiplied exponentially. In recording studios this is not an issue…. Thanks for your informational videos!

i like the second tip. i hear often folks saying not to touch the EQ cause it'll smear around the phase. well, you've got to do a lot of phase smearing before that becomes substantial. as far as non linear effects go, you can always reach for them.

When you said 3 of the best plug-in companies I thought “soundtoys, arturia, maybe fabfilter” what are the odds

very cool video!