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11 common EQ mistakes and how to avoid them

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458K views · 8 years ago · tutorial

Rob Mayzes walks through eleven EQ habits he got wrong, from EQing with your eyes and boosting too wide to obsessing over tiny moves, each heard on a real mix.

A compact checklist of habits to unlearn; even experienced mixers in the comments say it caught mistakes they still make.

  1. 0:20 Mistake #1
  2. 2:16 Mistake #2
  3. 3:31 Mistake #3
  4. 4:34 Mistake #4
  5. 6:05 Mistake #5
  6. 6:47 Mistake #6
  7. 8:30 Mistake #7
  8. 9:54 Mistake #8
  9. 10:21 Mistake #9
  10. 11:05 Mistake #10
  11. 13:23 Mistake #11

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