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Dial in your low end with an RTA

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Dial in your low end with an RTA

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- [Instructor] One of the things that often eludes mixers is the proper low end balance of a mix. There's nothing worse than getting the track balances right only to find out that the mix is really thin. By using a real time analyzer plugin you can get a sense for what's missing in a particular mix, or if there's too much. In this case, we're going to use the T-Rex metering package. In other words, it's the meters from the T-Rex mastering and plugins package. I'm going to call that up. What we're going to look at is primarily the spectrum analyzer. Let me zoom in. Now, let's play. ("Electrolux" by Snew) First of all, we can see that there's a peak here at about 150 and another one at 40, and yet another one somewhere around 90. But really, what I want you to see is the slope that we have. The low end is always way, way higher than the high end, and that's just the way mixes are supposed to be, the frequency spectrums are because what happens is the high frequencies we can hear much…

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