Ableton Live EQ'ing Lesson 2

In your mix, every sound has frequencies that need to be cut or boosted.

But if you don't have a lot of experience EQ'ing, you can waste a lot of time trying to find them.

That's why we use the Frequency Sweep technique.

It's how you find the right place to cut and boost with EQ.

This is the next step after you learn the basic EQ and Filter types.

Now learn the frequency sweep technique, in this hands-on Session Lesson® tutorial.

LEARN BY DOING IT

This is a completely new kind of Ableton tutorial.

You do the lesson inside Live, where you can learn by playing with the controls and hearing what happens.

All you do is download the Live Pack, open the Project, and press play.

Then you just follow along in Session View to hear audio instructions, watch automated examples, and do hands-on activities.

It's the best way to learn because you learn by DOING IT.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

We start by defining the range of human hearing, so you know the landscape where we operate with EQ.

Then you'll explore the common tonal areas we recognize, like sub-bass, midrange, high-mids and highs.

You'll learn to connect what you're hearing in the music with exact numbers in Hertz, so you can dial in your EQ's without guessing.

That's the big take-away skill from this lesson, that will affect your production life in a huge positive way.

And we'll define which instruments fill each part of the frequency range, so you understand how to EQ the sounds in your own tracks.

That's how you get the crisp, clean, spacious sound of a Pro mix.

HOW THIS HELPS

The frequency sweep technique gives you the skill to easily solve tonal problems in every instrument, so you can bring out the best of your sounds in every mix.

You'll be able to find nasty resonances to cut, so that your tracks feel smooth.

You'll know where to boost with EQ, to get heavy low-end beats (without a muddy mess).

And you'll understand how this leads directly to the Golden Rule of EQ -- cut before you boost.

After you learn this one essential technique, the process of mixing will get much easier.

NO NEED TO MEMORIZE

Every activity comes with a quick review section to make sure you lock in what you're learning.

After that you can go back to your own projects and put it in practice.

You'll start hearing a dramatic improvement right away.

PRINTABLE GUIDE INCLUDED

To make sure you stay focused, you also get a compact PDF guide called "The Frequency Landscape" to print and keep.

This will help you remember the numbers in Hertz that go with each frequency range, so you have a starting place for EQ'ing your sub-bass, midrange synths and drums.

Easy to use, easy to remember and there's nothing to memorize... because you learn by doing it yourself, right inside Live.

GET THE HANDS-ON LESSON

The frequency sweep technique is the single most important skill you need for EQ'ing.

Check the system requirements and get this hands-on Session Lesson tutorial so you can learn it.

This is real audio engineering that you'll be using every day for the rest of your production life.