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Old 10-13-2015, 09:17 PM   #15
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I think it's an important counterpoint for all too common advice but it doesn't take away from the importance of high/low pass filtering where it will help (which is a lot of places).

I tend to use EQuilibrium with butterworth 48dB/oct filters there by default and use the spectrum and key-listen to do any HP/LP filtering to know what I'm filtering.

The worst, most inexperienced mixers probably also have the worst monitoring environments and there can be a lot of high and low frequency crap that won't be heard until played back on something better which can lead to some really unpleasant surprises.

Also many of the problems arise with multi-miced sources, and I highly doubt many neophytes are recording drum kits with 8 mics in their bedrooms. For those using virtual synths where everything wants to take up the full spectrum, even pretty steep filtering can be necessary.
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