Hello

First of all if choosing good samples from the start,
I don’t think you have to do much But a little compression
And a bit of eQ will do, try getting Good sounding
Samples or train yourself to adjust volumes

Thank-you

Hey Jamie, and thanks for your valuable comment, I appreciate that!

Even though this tutorial was mostly about how to get rid of that cardboard sound (which is quite often in that specific frequency area), what you said about EQ’ing is so true: it’s very subjective matter and I think I should have emphasized that more in my tutorial.

I also agree that it’s better practice to cut than boost: “Emphasize one frequency range by DE-emphasizing another one” (quote from Joe Gilder’s article). Makes sense.

Personally, I’ve found I end up boosting things quite a lot, but it could be that my monitors aren’t positioned quite right… need to check those.

Thanks again!

Cheers!

Which other sounds have the same freq. area? Are they clashing? Are you using heavy sounds? Light sounds? The drums in your sample are heavy and dirty. Thin and simple sounding kick / snares would maybe not require the same treatment.

When you add more things into the mix, the whole dynamic changes.

I would also add subtractive EQ over additive! Almost always 🙂

Good tip friend.

Hey there!

Yeah, I’m using it in master channel because it’s just example only..

In real situation, you could add the PEQ2 to a single instrument mixer tracks like kick, snare, hihat etc or to a track where you have grouped all the separate instrument tracks to.

HI, that’s a good idea even though I’m not actually taking requests, but I’ll look into it 🙂

PLEASEEEE PETRI!!! i bet alot of people on here will appreciate this so much 🙂 your tutorials are incredible and im sure this one will help many people as well!