Mixing & Mastering

Where to filter, cut and boost for vocals, bass, guitars, drums and piano, in one table, with a link to the full EQ cheat sheet for each instrument.

Piano covers a huge frequency range. Here’s how to EQ it, subtractive and additive, so it cuts through without fighting the bass and mids.

Mixing picked and strummed acoustic guitar step by step: EQ, compression, effects and panning, with audio at each stage.

Filtering, cutting the boxiness, adding the click, and the decision that matters most: how the kick and the bass are going to share the bottom.

Gain staging is the balance you build before any plugin goes on. Here is what it is, why it comes first, and the order to work in.

The frequency ranges that matter on every part of the kit, from the kick’s thump to the air on the overheads.

Where every part of a vocal lives, from the rumble you filter out to the air you add on top, and the six-step process for putting it to work.

Which frequencies matter on a bass and what each one does, plus the DI and amp split that keeps the low end clean.

The frequency ranges that give an electric guitar its body, its bite and its fizz, and which ones to move out of the vocal’s way.