So let me show you exactly how you can use a spectrum analyzer to help you achieve full, balanced tracks. And you can actually use it to help you make better decisions when it comes to setting your mastering EQ or mix bus EQ. So a spectrum analyzer is a plugin that you can use to visualize the frequency response, or curve, of a mix or master. Today I want to show you a trick that I use to achieve tonal balance in my mixes, and it makes use of something called a spectrum analyzer. So often times, you’re leading yourself in the wrong direction by checking your mix on all of these different speakers, and it can be this race to try to accommodate everything and you end up just pulling your mix in the wrong direction. So if you’re trying to make a master sound better on small speakers by boosting the low end for example, your mix is going to sound way too boomy and full and thick on larger speakers that can play back that low end. And that can make your mix or master sound better on that speaker, but it might make it sound worse on other speakers. This can be helpful as well, but it can also lead you in the wrong direction, because you can end up making compromises in order to accommodate a certain sort of speaker. Now a lot of people check their tracks on different speakers. And so references can often lead to copying, where you’re just blindly trying to emulate the curve of the reference, but you might end up taking your track in the wrong direction. Sometimes it’s okay to have a different tonal balance than your references. But it can lead to copying, and just because something sounds right on a reference doesn’t mean that you actually want to take your track in that direction. And this can be helpful…it’s a great technique and I definitely recommend it. So maybe you’re using references, where you’re pulling in commercial tracks by other artists into your session while you’re mixing or mastering and comparing your work with theirs. This is really difficult, and we have a lot of tips and tactics that we use to try to do this in our mixes, but often times, they don’t work all that well. Hey-this is Jason Moss from, and today I want to talk about how to achieve tonal balance. Do your tracks always end up sounding muddy and boomy or harsh and bright? If so, keep watching to discover a simple trick that’s going make achieving a full, balanced mix so much easier.
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