Enhance Your Productions with Mid-Side EQ

Learn how to use mid-side EQ to enhance your music productions, mixes, and masters. Understand the concepts of mid and side channels and how to apply EQ to them for targeted adjustments.

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Introduction to Mid-Side EQ

A comprehensive introduction to mid-side EQ, its core principles, and its advantages in audio production. This module will cover the fundamental concepts and techniques used by the author.

Understand Mid and Side Signals

Weekly

Learn how a stereo signal is split into mid (mono sum) and side (difference) channels. This mirrors the author's initial breakdown of the signal processing.

“Mid-side is simply the process of splitting a stereo waveform into two channels, the mid and side signals.”

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Access Mid-Side in Your DAW

Weekly

Locate and activate mid-side functionality within your DAW's EQ plugins. Reflects the author's step-by-step guide to accessing the feature in Ozone and FabFilter.

“This feature is on a different place on every EQ. On ozone you go to the top here and you just change from stereo to midside it handles that midside split for you.”

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Mid-Side EQ in Production

Explore practical examples of using mid-side EQ to fix issues with samples and synth presets. This echoes the author's focus on practical applications in production.

Narrow a Wide Bass

Weekly

Use mid-side EQ to focus a wide bass in the center of the stereo image, mirroring the author's specific example and reasoning.

“The base is very wide and definitely surrounds the listener but for this I'd like to have a much more narrow and centered base that's more focused.”

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Tame Lead Resonance

Weekly

Reduce resonance in a lead sound using mid-side EQ, replicating the author's approach to cleaning up a synth lead.

“I'd also like to address some of the resonance in this lead.”

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Mid-Side EQ in Mixing

Learn how to use mid-side EQ in a mixing context to address specific issues without affecting the overall sound. This echoes the author's intention of fixing problems without affecting the overall sound

Control Guitar Brightness

Weekly

Use mid-side EQ to reduce harshness or squeakiness in guitars without dulling the entire mix, as demonstrated by the author.

“The guitars are quite squeaky and Scratchy... it's just a little bit too much brightness and when I use a stereo EQ to reduce this the whole mix becomes mushy.”

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Stereo Kick Drum

Weekly

Address stereo kick drum using the techniques described. This directly follows author's example of where to not remove bass.

“You'll actually hear there's a stereo Kick Drum and I go to the sides which is quite unusual but it really works in this song.”

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Advanced Tips and Tricks

Discover advanced techniques and tips for using mid-side EQ to enhance depth and width in your mixes, building on the author's exploration of these aspects.

High-End Width Enhancement

Weekly

Experiment with subtle high-end boosts on the side channels to create a feeling of width, directly inspired by the author's recommendation.

“A lot of people recommend doing a high boost to try and add more width but I've also found something that works really well for me.”

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Midrange Depth Enhancement

Weekly

Try subtle boosts in the upper mid-range on the side channels to create depth in your mixes, echoing the author's specific technique.

“If you pull it back into the mid-range or upper mid-range I find that working in this region if you can do a subtle boost there on the sides I find that that actually creates a lot more depth.”

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