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Old 10-13-2016, 09:37 AM   #134
ashcat_lt
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I mean, ideally you just wouldn't record those bass frequencies at all. Instrument choice, amplifier settings, mic selection and placement and such things will usually do better than any filter could. If you get it right at the source, you don't have to mess with it in the mix.

The lines get blurry, though, when your "source" is actually a chain of plugins. Whether it's amp sims or VSTis, sometimes we just don't have as many options to really tailor the sound to fit the mix and we have to reach for the EQs.

And yes some of us are mixing things that other people have recorded, or for whatever reason we don't have much say in how the source is captured. At these times - especially when somebody else tracked it - I think we first have to evaluate our own position with respect to the original vision of the tracking engineer. When you apply those filters, is it because it really needs it, or are you somehow missing the point? But if course if the tracks really just suck, we do what we must.
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