Start by lowering the gain maybe 1-2dB for starters and keep decreasing until you’re satisfied. I’ve found this is useful because listening excessively boosted frequencies – even for a short period of time – kind of makes ears ‘out of balance’ for a second.Īlright. Play back your mix, and slowly increase the peaking filter frequency – sweep it across the frequencies – (it may help you to focus if you close your eyes while sweeping) until you start to hear that problem getting WAY worse and STOP right there: you have identified the problematic frequency area and it’s time to fix the problem.ĭrop the peaking filter gain to 0.0dB and before you start cutting, let your ears rest a few seconds. Try not to set the bandwidth too thin, because that’ll cause more resonance around the center frequency and more artifacts to the sound and that will make it harder to identify the actual problematic frequencies. Set the band frequency to around 30Hz (this is just the starting point for the sweeping – it can be anything actually), gain to 10-12dB and bandwidth to something narrow like 10-15%. Leave only one peaking filter band there and disable all the other six bands. Pick a Fruity Parametric EQ 2 (for EQ sweeping you’ll need a fully parametric EQ and in FL Studio, PEQ2 is PERFECT for such use) and drop it to the lead synthline mixer track. Now, the problem is, you can’t tell what the exact frequency area is that is causing the nasality in this sound. Try to keep that in mind: your target is to fix the excessive nasality out of the lead synthline. However, if there’s something that sounds bad, unbalanced or just not right, try to identify the problem as accurately as possible: WHY it sounds so bad? What’s actually wrong with it? For example, let’s say a lead synthline you’re using in your mix is sounding ‘nasal’ in a bad way – you feel it just doesn’t seem to fit in the mix. Generally speaking, EQ isn’t something you HAVE to use in every single sound: listen to your mix first – if it sounds good, don’t do anything to it. Using EQ Sweeping For Fixing Problematic Frequenciesįirst, you need to identify WHAT exactly doesn’t sound right in your mix. In this tutorial I will show you how to use EQ sweeping to find & fix problematic areas in the frequency range and also how to use it to find those sweet spots to make an instrument or sound to really stand out. There’s various equalizing techniques as well and one such is a method called EQ sweeping.
With it, you can make a huge difference how your mixes will sound. Equalizer is one of the most powerful tools in your virtual mixing desk.
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