When and How to Use EQ in 2025
Equalization (EQ) plays a crucial role in the mixing process, often consuming a significant portion of your editing time, along with cutting. While my focus is typically on using EQ for podcast voice editing, the principles discussed here are applicable to music as well.
Equalization, or simply EQ, in sound recording and reproduction is the process of adjusting the volume of different frequency bands within an audio signal. The circuit or equipment used to achieve this is called an equalizer
The concept of equalization was first applied in correcting the frequency response of telephone lines using passive filters; this was prior to the invention of electronic amplification. Initially, equalization was used to compensate for the uneven frequency response of an electric system by applying a filter having the opposite response, thus restoring the fidelity of the transmission. A plot of the system's net frequency response would be a flat line, as its response at any frequency would be equal to its response at any other frequency. Hence the term equalization.
Equalizers can look different from Adobe Audition to Audacity, but overall work the same way.
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TIMECODES
0:00 Introduction
0:15 EQ Definition
0:45 Masking
1:06 Filters
1:46 Gain
2:02 Frequency
2:21 Bell Filters, Shelf Filters, Quality Factors
2:55 Less is More
3:16 Simple EQ Trick
3:40 When to Use EQ
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