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Podcast: Making a Scene Presents
Episode: Subtractive EQ vs Additive EQ: The Secret to Clean Mixes
Description: Making a Scene Presents - Subtractive EQ vs Additive EQ: The Secret to Clean Mixes
There is a reason so many home studio mixes sound busy, cloudy, and weirdly tired even when every track is “exciting” on its own. It is not always the mic. It is not always the room. It is not always that you need some expensive boutique plugin blessed by a guy on YouTube wearing a beanie in July. A lot of the time, the problem is simpler and a little more humbling. We boost before we listen. We decorate before we clean. We k...