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My tracks always seem to end up sounding really muddy. Even when Im just assembeling a drum beat in FL Studio, I will compare it to a professional track, and sure enough, the professional track sounds realy clean and crisp.
When EQing I low pass at 15khz and hi pass depending on what I feel sounds right.
Can anyone help me get that sheen on my high end without it sounding sharp?
Apart from getting them professionaly mastered, obviously.
This post has been edited 1 time(s), it was last edited by Thisisausername: 29-11-2008 13:17.
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29-11-2008 13:13 |
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Binary Havoc 
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15k sounds a bit low to lowpass every element in your mix to me
I mean I definately eq every element separately but If you're rolling off everything above 15k that might be effecting your overall mix
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29-11-2008 14:12 |
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Muad'Dib
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Usually cutting at 500 Hz takes the muddiness off. Try that.
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30-11-2008 11:57 |
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BattleDrone
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Use only excellent quality samples for starters.
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30-11-2008 15:11 |
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Tomos
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Originally posted by BattleDrone
Use only excellent quality samples for starters. |
Do that and you'll save yourself a tonne of unnessary EQing. And it'll sound a tonne better by the end of it.
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30-11-2008 18:35 |
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Crispy Liquids
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Originally posted by Muad'Dib
Usually cutting at 500 Hz takes the muddiness off. Try that. |
This should really to the trick, cut around 500Hz, it's the muddiness area!
It starts around 450Hz and ends around 750Hz, you should really notice it by listening whilst adjusting your equalizer.
Also when equalizing individual instruments/channels, have something analysing your master channel (spectrum analyser or whatever you want), so you can see if your mix is filling a broad enough range of frequencies.
Cutting away the mudiness entirely will not produce the right sound either, btw.
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02-12-2008 14:35 |
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Halph-Price
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500hz is one and 200hz is the other. 200hz is more for DEEP bass.
do not lowpass15khz. it's true to EQ a lot of the high end out of hats, but also remove a lot of the lower freq on the high hats too, most of the hats sound comes from 1khz.
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05-12-2008 07:06 |
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