You can use Infinity EQ to solo the band you are currently working with. Of course, once you’ve found a horrible frequency, just drag the gain down to a level where it can’t be heard, or doesn’t interfere with your mix.
That way you can really start to clean up your mix. With that in mind, it often helps to do this process whilst listening to the whole mix, not just a track in solo. Or, it might be a harmonic frequency in your guitars that is resonating too loudly and stopping your vocals from being allowed to breathe. This frequency could be making your mix sound very boxy. Begin adjusting the centre frequency of that notch until you hear something that resonates, or sounds particularly nasty in the context of the track. This can be done by ear, but parametric EQs do make it easier for us.īy creating a notch filter with a very thin bandwidth and boosting the gain, you’ll be able to hear the frequency of the notch very clearly. To begin your surgical EQ process, you’ll first want to track down any unpleasant tones in your tracks. Take a look at Brickwall Sounds’ latest video for some surgical EQing tips. The UI is incredibly easy to work with, and the ability to switch between the mid and side channel is a great addition for any mastering engineers out there. For example, you can solo the filter you’re working with making hunting down that problem frequency even easier. The Infinity EQ however does offer some excellent functionality. Most of what we’ll discuss today can be done on the stock EQ in your DAW. However, there are probably hundreds of parametric EQs on the market that will do exactly what we’re looking for. We recommend using the Infinity EQ for this job simply because it makes it so easy. Today, we’ll be doing some surgical EQing with Slate Digital’s Infinity EQ. We can use EQs to shape and colour our sounds, but this isn’t what we’re looking to do today.
This is opposed to a broader EQing technique.
Most parametric EQs have the functionality to use a very thin bandwidth, meaning we can remove our unwanted frequency without getting rid of the sounds we do want to keep. We use surgical EQ to hunt down a very specific frequency and cut it out. If you’re unfamiliar with the basics of EQing, check out our latest blog on the topic! We can leave no stone unturned as we hunt down those unpleasant tones! It’s fast efficient and most importantly it’s fun.Surgical EQing with a plugin like Infinity EQ is a perfect way to remove those unwanted frequencies. I can then work on fine tuning - working on the entire mix, rather than focusing on individual adjustments. Instead of spending two hours EQing a kick drum I can do it in thirty seconds, because I have set up templates for the album that outline all the basic parameters for each instrument.
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To be able to do this, I use a lot of templates in pro tools. Most of my mixes are finished within an hour. Billy Decker made history in July of 2014 when Sam Hunt became the most added new artist of all time. Decker also mixed George Jones’s last album before he passed. Decker has mixed for such notable artists as Sam Hunt, Chris Young, Rodney Atkins, Dustin Lynch, Parmalee, Colt Ford, Darius Rucker, and the list goes on and on. He’s mixed 16 Billboard #1”s to date - most recently Dustin Lynch’s “Riding Roads”. After honing his skills all over the country for two years in various studios, Decker landed in Nashville where he has been working ever since.
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in Criminal Justice from the University of Nebraska and then went on to be the salutatorian at Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts in 1992. Billy Decker was born on Augand raised in Nebraska.