# \#eq **URL:** https://community.mwtm.com/tag/eq/20.md [Latest](https://community.mwtm.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.mwtm.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.mwtm.com/tags.md) --- ## [Subtractive EQ over Multiple EQ's](https://community.mwtm.com/t/subtractive-eq-over-multiple-eqs/5372)
**Author:** [@Brady\_Auman](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Brady_Auman)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/subtractive-eq-over-multiple-eqs/5372 "2024-03-20T19:26:52Z")
Hi Leslie, I noticed when you used the technique for getting rid of unwanted frequencies you were using Pro Tools’s EQ-7, is there any reason you used that instead of EQ-1 or Pro-Q? --- ## [Analog mixing questions for Chris](https://community.mwtm.com/t/analog-mixing-questions-for-chris/3203)
**Author:** [@Gak](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Gak)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 6, 2024, 2:52am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/analog-mixing-questions-for-chris/3203 "2024-01-06T02:52:54Z")
Hi Chris, I’m your big big fan from China!!! I want to ask you some specific questions about your analog mix: When you start mixing, do you set every channel on the console to EQ before COMP by default even if you on… --- ## [Percussiveness of the cellos](https://community.mwtm.com/t/percussiveness-of-the-cellos/2693)
**Author:** [@Bogdan\_Avramuta](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Bogdan_Avramuta)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 3, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/percussiveness-of-the-cellos/2693 "2024-01-03T22:52:17Z")
Hi guys. Could you please unpack more on the verse cellos played by Jack and George? Are the Pro Qs doing a lot or was the original sound that percussive from the start? Has anything else been done to them with analog ge… --- ## [Fabfilter ProQ3 Mode](https://community.mwtm.com/t/fabfilter-proq3-mode/2129)
**Author:** [@Jannis\_Wahler](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Jannis_Wahler)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 18, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/fabfilter-proq3-mode/2129 "2023-12-18T22:24:49Z")
Hey Jaycen, thank you so much for all the great teachings you have for us! i’m learning so much useful stuff from you and i’m super greatful for that. In the MWTM videos with you i noticed that you always use the Zero… --- ## [Jack Joseph Puig - Kick Sub phase](https://community.mwtm.com/t/jack-joseph-puig-kick-sub-phase/1987)
**Author:** [@Ben\_Scott](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Ben_Scott)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/jack-joseph-puig-kick-sub-phase/1987 "2023-12-07T14:57:48Z")
Hi Jack, thanks for sharing all your knowledge with us, I find your videos great. I have a question regarding the phase on the Sub Kick on the drums multitrack available for download. I understand that everything in au… --- ## [Subtraction-EQ prior to Channel-Strip?](https://community.mwtm.com/t/subtraction-eq-prior-to-channel-strip/1860)
**Author:** [@Joseph\_Libretti](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Joseph_Libretti)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/subtraction-eq-prior-to-channel-strip/1860 "2023-12-05T15:55:38Z")
Hello Sir… Do you ever recommend Inserting a clean EQ, first in a chain, for things like filtering and/or corrective-subtracting frequencies prior to desired Channel-Strip, as opposed to inserting Channel-Strip alone an… --- ## [How to EQ poorly recorded vocals where the tone is all over the place?](https://community.mwtm.com/t/how-to-eq-poorly-recorded-vocals-where-the-tone-is-all-over-the-place/881)
**Author:** [@Sam\_Intharaphithak](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Sam_Intharaphithak)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2023, 5:45am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/how-to-eq-poorly-recorded-vocals-where-the-tone-is-all-over-the-place/881 "2023-11-07T05:45:27Z")
Hi Chris, hope you’re well. Sam from Laos here, we met at your seminar in Bangkok organized by Mr. T several years back. I have a question, how do you deal with poorly recorded lead vocal, by poorly recorded I don’t mean… --- ## [Spatial Mixing - How to move sounds high up in the mix space, as in height](https://community.mwtm.com/t/spatial-mixing-how-to-move-sounds-high-up-in-the-mix-space-as-in-height/949)
**Author:** [@Esli\_Sugich](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Esli_Sugich)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2023, 9:29pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/spatial-mixing-how-to-move-sounds-high-up-in-the-mix-space-as-in-height/949 "2023-11-08T21:29:14Z")
Is there a trick, tip, advice to place sounds higher in the mix, as in height, and vise versa? When listening with headphones, maybe there is a synth lead that would sound better up high in the mix-space. For instance, i… --- ## [Modern ITB Mastering](https://community.mwtm.com/t/modern-itb-mastering/866)
**Author:** [@Dereck\_Blackburn](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Dereck_Blackburn)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/modern-itb-mastering/866 "2023-11-08T17:21:29Z")
Thank you for taking my question! I’ve been Mastering ITB for almost 10 years now and still enjoy the many facets of the work day in and out. I’ve been thinking lately that as far as ITB workflows compared to hybrid/anal… --- ## [Enhancing emotion in a mix](https://community.mwtm.com/t/enhancing-emotion-in-a-mix/912)
**Author:** [@Erik\_Medeiros](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Erik_Medeiros)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/enhancing-emotion-in-a-mix/912 "2023-11-08T09:43:18Z")
Hey Tony What is your approach when it comes to enhancing the emotion of a song? What do you listen out for? Any techniques you could share? Does it change from genre to genre? Thanks --- ## [Enhancing emotion in the mix](https://community.mwtm.com/t/enhancing-emotion-in-the-mix/913)
**Author:** [@Erik\_Medeiros](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Erik_Medeiros)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/enhancing-emotion-in-the-mix/913 "2023-11-08T09:39:48Z")
Hi Chris, What is your approach when it comes to enhancing the emotion of a song? What do you listen out for? Any techniques you could share? Does it change from genre to genre? Thanks --- ## [Low end cut and true peak](https://community.mwtm.com/t/low-end-cut-and-true-peak/886)
**Author:** [@yigitcan\_sagir](https://community.mwtm.com/u/yigitcan_sagir)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 8, 2023, 8:12am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/low-end-cut-and-true-peak/886 "2023-11-08T08:12:23Z")
Hi Chris! I always wonder. I generally dont do low cut on my 808 and kicks. However im seeing so many great engineers doing it. When we do low cut on those, the true peak raising pretty much. If i do this with lineer pha… --- ## [Ways to prevent instruments from interfering with each other](https://community.mwtm.com/t/ways-to-prevent-instruments-from-interfering-with-each-other/894)
**Author:** [@Ted\_Kardasis](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Ted_Kardasis)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/ways-to-prevent-instruments-from-interfering-with-each-other/894 "2023-11-07T20:12:34Z")
What are some of the best ways to prevent instruments from interfering with each other besides subtractive EQ? And how often would you say you use subtractive EQ? --- ## [Musical mixes on low/lo-mid range](https://community.mwtm.com/t/musical-mixes-on-low-lo-mid-range/870)
**Author:** [@Berni](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Berni)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 7, 2023, 11:28am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/musical-mixes-on-low-lo-mid-range/870 "2023-11-07T11:28:15Z")
Hi Tchad! Shawn Everett showed (on MWTM) one of your mixes (Everlasting light) as an example of how important is 90hz - 550hz (fundamentals/first/second harmonics range) is for a musical mix. He soloed that range with a… --- ## [Mixing of a live recording](https://community.mwtm.com/t/mixing-of-a-live-recording/655)
**Author:** [@Marton\_Kopcsik](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Marton_Kopcsik)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/mixing-of-a-live-recording/655 "2023-11-06T17:23:19Z")
Dear Chris, during my mixing works on live concert recordings I’ve always found very exciting the process of the room mic’s, and the ambience ones. And during the mixing process in my studio after, many times surprises … --- ## [Hearing Compression](https://community.mwtm.com/t/hearing-compression/744)
**Author:** [@Terry\_Barnett](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Terry_Barnett)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/hearing-compression/744 "2023-11-06T10:21:09Z")
Hi Tchad Many thanks for doing this. I really struggle to hear compression when it’s applied to tracks / busses in instructional videos; and this includes when I am using decent headphones. I’ve no problem hearing the… --- ## [Pultec setting on the master buss](https://community.mwtm.com/t/pultec-setting-on-the-master-buss/500)
**Author:** [@user470](https://community.mwtm.com/u/user470)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2023, 12:41am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/pultec-setting-on-the-master-buss/500 "2023-11-04T00:41:18Z")
Hello Chris, So wonderful of you to answer our questions, thank you! I have seen on your videos how you use the Pultec EQ on the master buss. I remember you saying the Pultec you have is a mastering (or at least differ… --- ## [Solving Masking](https://community.mwtm.com/t/solving-masking/185)
**Author:** [@Roman\_Robbins](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Roman_Robbins)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/solving-masking/185 "2023-11-03T18:30:26Z")
Hi, I would love to know when carving out space for a vocal, a vocal can take up the entire frequency spectrum, what part of the vocal are we actually attempting to unmask? How do you know when mixing whether you need t… --- ## [Drum panning & EQ](https://community.mwtm.com/t/drum-panning-eq/630)
**Author:** [@Tim\_Burns](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Tim_Burns)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/drum-panning-eq/630 "2023-11-03T17:13:50Z")
Dear Meister Brauer the BrauerMeister, When it comes to acoustic drums, how much of a ‘standard’ do you stick to? For example, are overheads usually hi-passed and treated as ‘cymbal mics’? Are toms hard panned, or is … --- ## [Parallel EQ Settings](https://community.mwtm.com/t/parallel-eq-settings/519)
**Author:** [@Ivan\_Buccarella](https://community.mwtm.com/u/Ivan_Buccarella)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2023, 6:34am UTC](https://community.mwtm.com/t/parallel-eq-settings/519 "2023-11-03T06:34:38Z")
Hello Chris, your videos are brilliant. Unfortunately, I didn’t quite understand the parallel EQ concept. Do you use it on the entire mix, or on individual tracks? Greetings from Switzerland! :wink: