Beagle's General EQ Tips

I've been collecting and refining EQ guidelines over the past several months and thought I would share them with you.

As with anything, the following are some helpful guidelines for EQ. When EQ'ing, it's always best to cut instead of boost, but boosting is necessary sometimes. Boosting specific frequencies changes the sound, cutting just helps clarify and define.

This general guideline I have derived from different sources. It's a living document and can be changed/added to at any time to help define its effectiveness. If anyone sees any problems with this chart, let me know and I will take that into consideration for updates.

Above all, if something in this chart doesn't work for you, trust your ears! This is a general guideline and might not work for the type of music you're working on. Don't try to do ALL of these things, either, only adjust EQ when you NEED to. EQ will NOT fix a bad sound, but it will enhance one that's already decent.

Good job Beag.

Another tip is to remember that a song will quickly mud up if certain similar-frequency instruments start piling on (multiple guitars, etc). So EQ not to make each track sound right, but to make the whole thing work in the mix.

Thanks Reece, that's great information here. I still have problems using EQ anyways ...
Thanks
Heinz.