Does anyone else buy their favorite artist's track, open up their DAW, put a Parametric EQ on it and just watch where each instrument is taking up space and where its not and how it's all beautifully molded together?
I learn so much from doing that, way more than I thought I would. Not only do I better understand the role of each instrument in the context of the song but it also teaches me things about how the human ear interprets sound, and it teaches me that in order to create the atmosphere or impact that I desire, I have to understand the role of each section of the frequency spectrum. I have to let each sound have its own space and that requires cutting unwanted frequencies with confidence, and boosting others that are more desirable without having it overpower the song because having that big drop doesn't mean you have to boost all these frequencies. Things sound louder when they simply have more frequency space to "breathe"
Sorry some of this probably sounds like old news to most everyone here, and I actually "knew" this too before I started doing it. I just wanted to know if anyone gets the same type of clarity about mixing when they do this, or if they do this. Because if ya don't, then ya should!
