Are You Exhausted With Screeching Feedback, Bad Cables and Figuring Out Why Your Live Sound Sucks?
What if you could finally understand all the technical stuff so you can sit back and enjoy making bands sound so good they'll tell everyone about your live sound skills?
Chances are your passion for music brought you to live sound...
It's likely you started doing live sound because you were the most technically savvy of your musician friends. You didn't become a sound tech out of passion. Somebody had to run the sound system and you seemed like the best person for the job.
However, the sound system can feel like a terrifying technical challenge when you’re trying to figure out how everything works.
The amount of channels on the mixing board looks overwhelming, you’re not sure which cables to use where or how microphone selection and placement differs from studio recording.
And those are just the problems you face before you even turn the system on!
As soon as you power up the speakers you recoil in pain from the feedback screeching through the venue.
Feedback is the nemesis of the live sound engineer, but it’s simply what happens when you don’t set the gain of your system properly. Unbeknownst to you, somewhere you have a microphone feeding back through a monitor, making the band wince from pain at the back of the stage.
That's why live sound is so terrifying. There's no room for error. Everything is live and there's no "fixing it in the mix."
At the same time, there’s something exciting about the liveness of it all. It keeps you on your toes and gets your blood pumping. You think to yourself, “what’s gonna go wrong this time? Blown speaker? Drunk lead guitar player? Awful feedback?”
There’s no room to relax like you would in the studio. You only have seconds to dial things in, but it’s the rush of getting things right quickly that makes it so exciting. This is the rush that got to you in the first place and now you might like live sound more than playing music yourself.
However, this quick-thinking mindset is also why it’s so important to make the right mix decisions immediately.
Although you may know about EQ and understand what mixing means, you don’t feel confident you’re applying them correctly to live sound. You might know whether things sound good or bad, but you have no idea how to start fixing the bad or making the good sound better.
Troubleshooting buzzing cables that ruin a guitar solo, loud ground hums that overpower an intimate ballad, or just figuring out whether a piece of gear actually works is stressful in a live situation.
You need to fix things now! You can't wait for a replacement or reschedule the session - The show must go on.
I understand this situation all too well because it’s literally how I got started in audio.
Here’s the story:
What if I told you that you're so close to figuring the frequency spectrum out?
You want to carve EQ pockets for your instruments? With only a few EQ tweaks you can finally get your instruments to really punch through.
You'll be able to add definition to your tracks and make everything fit together for a cleaner mix.
​Even if you're only a hobbyist, you still need to know how to create a balance between your drums and bass; vocals and guitars; the highs and lows.
Once you learn how to EQ, you can wipe out the boxiness and mud from your mixes.
Forget about thin sounding vocals, boomy bass or harsh guitars! ​With the correct EQ moves you can make every instrument sound exactly the way you want it to.
- EQ helps you create punchy low-end and sparkling highs.
- EQ helps you separate guitars and vocals so that you hear them distinctly in all their detail.
- EQ cleans up your low-end, making the kick drum and the bass help other fill out the lows instead of clashing to create a muddy mix.
In short, EQ clears up your mix and creates a full frequency balance.
And you know what? I have the only thing you need to achieve that.
Introducing: EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ
The Only EQ Guide You Need to Create Balanced Mixes That Transform Your Amateur Demos Into Professional Records
Your Ultimate Guide to EQ is your step by step guide to use EQ to take your mixes to the next level and finally get that truly professional sound.
In-Depth Reference BookÂ
100 page PDF with in-depth techniques on how to understand EQ to create separation between your instruments and balance in your mixes. Reference these pages every time you're EQ'ing and you'll get better mixes in less time.
6-Part HD Video Course
A complete video course with frequency-by-frequency breakdown of the complete EQ spectrum, teaching you exactly what each frequency "sounds like," and in-depth walkthroughs on how to find the flattering frequencies to make your tracks jump out of the speakers.
For Beginners and Advanced Students
Whether you're just starting out or have been working in the industry for a while, you'll get easy to use, practical EQ tips you can use right away to improve the quality of your mixes.
"An immediate and hugely practical understanding of the frequency spectrum and fantastic examples of positive and negative aspects of the key audio frequency bands as related to achieving better mixes. A superbly comprehensive and humorously written book by someone with lots of of a practical experience, that beats many video tutorials on this subject. Plus you can have a comprehensively indexed pdf to hand for quick referencing while mixing without needing to fire up a video tutorial and scrub through the timeline hoping to find what you're looking for! I was a beta reader for the eBook and I liked the content so much I bought the full course!"
Alan Doyle
Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Score Developer
What Will You Learn From Your Ultimate Guide to EQ?
How EQ Works and Frequency Characteristics
- How EQ works and where you can find all the frequency problems you encounter in your mixes
How to Use EQ Effectively in Your Mixes
How to Use EQ to Make Your Drums Punchy and Powerful
- How to EQ kick drums to get rid of muddy resonances while keeping them thick and punchy
How to EQ a Thick and Powerful Bass
How to Add Weight, Body, and Presence to Guitars Using EQ
- How to EQ groups of both acoustic and electric guitars to give each one their own space in the frequency spectrum
How to Make Pianos, Keyboards, Horns and Strings Sound Great
How to Make Your Vocals Cut Through the Mix With Presence and Power
- How to use mid/side EQ on backing vocals to make room for the lead vocals in a dense vocal mix
Plus: How to EQ the Mix Together and Create Separation Between All the Instruments of a Busy Mix
- The opposite way you should EQ depending on how many instruments you have
- How to add character and sweetening to the mix with EQ
- How to get clarity in the low-end without losing weight in your mixes
- The only mantra you’ll need for great EQ fixes
- How to use the analyzer to find where your instruments are clashing
- The importance of using EQ on reverbs to avoid cluttering up your mix
- How to use EQ to get your mixes to translate to every speaker system
"Bjorgvin knows what we need to know, and he shares it all, in easy to understand, easy to digest bites. Bjorgvin explains filtering, boosting, cutting, notch filters, bell curves, and “Q”, how to “sweep” or find frequencies that need cutting, and so much more, and all of it in very good detail, with audio examples. “EQ Strategies for EQ’ing a song”...This important video is an hour of deep EQ teaching, so please do not skip this part! Bjorgvin opens up a real multi track session and goes through the tracks, one at a time, and explains exactly what each EQ is doing. Bjorgvin begins with a quick “before and after” play, without EQ and then with EQ, just to demonstrate how powerful EQ really is. The difference is nothing short of incredible. Bjorgvin is a great teacher, too, and that really lends to the level of training that is unfolding here inside EQ Strategies. If you are trying to wrap your head around EQ, how to apply EQ in order to get way better tracks and much better sounding complete songs, EQ Strategies is what you are looking for."
Kern Ramsdell
Engineer, Home Recording Weekly
"The EQ tips that have helped the most have to do with the bass guitar and kick drum. I'm able to get a clean and tight low end on this song I'm working on. I cut some of the mud out of the kick and bass, then I let the kick have a little extra 50 Hz and added a little bit around 800 Hz on the bass guitar. That made the low end clear and punchy. This song has an acoustic guitar as one of the main instruments and I decided to put a HPF up to 200 Hz and added a little bit around 3 kHz and and it sounds good so far. This is a great guide to get things moving in the right direction!!! Thank You!!!! "
Jeff Smith
Mixing Engineer
Free Bonuses if You Buy Today
Free Bonus #1: How to Make Radio-Ready Records With Easy Mastering EQ Tricks ($19)
This guide explains the difference between EQ during the mixing and mastering phase. It shows you all the methods to keep in mind, as well as the mistakes to avoid when you're using EQ while mastering.
Free Bonus #2 - 10 Ways to Use Compression Effectively ($39)
EQ and compression go hand in hand to create great mixes.
Those two processors will take your mixes from rough recordings to punchy mixes.
Included in your EQ Strategies package is a free Compression Masterclass that teaches you ten different ways to use compression to make punchier and tighter mixes.
- How to use all those buttons on your compressor
- The difference between a FET, VCA and Opto compression types (and how incredibly important it is to experiment with each style)
- How to know the difference in compression styles between different compression emulations
- How to use compression to smooth out dynamics (and how you can see it visually)
- How to use the attack and release to create shape
- How to use serial compression to squeeze dynamics without squashing the signal
- How to use parallel compression for extra punch
- How to use multi-band compression to affect different frequency areas
- How to use mix-buss compression to glue your mix together from the start
""The impression I got from the Course, and from your site in general, is that you are one of the rare few who has both the ability to understand complex technical concepts and the ability to effectively communicate them in common, every day language. A few of the tips I got from the course really did make a noticeable difference in a couple of projects I am working on. The course gave me a good sense of your style and the fact that there so much useful information for free led me to believe that the stuff you have to pay for must be really great (which I later found to be true)...I am very impressed with everything. The quality of the material is fantastic and the publications are beautiful. The graphics, the layout, the videos are all very impressive. It really is a lot for the money and I am really excited about learning. Thank you very much.""
David Cox
Home Studio Musician and Engineer
Frequently Asked Questions
Not at all. EQ Strategies is written with any software or hardware you have to work with. You can follow the materials using whatever DAW you're most comfortable with. As long as you have a standard EQ plug-in, you will benefit from the course.
Not at all. You can follow the guide using whatever DAW you're most comfortable with. If your DAW has an EQ plug-in, you can learn from Your Ultimate Guide to EQ.
You can certainly search for videos teaching you how to EQ, but no video will give you a comprehensive, ultimate guide to understanding frequencies to create separation between the instruments in your mixes. You're more likely to bounce from one video to another, learning a lot of random, contradictory techniques (and watching a lot of ads), instead of one method to make better mixes.
That's understandable. You've got a lot going on. However, EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ can also be used while you mix. It's a well organized guide that you can easily refer to whenever you run into problems in your mix. So as long as you're mixing songs, you'll have time to read the guide.
Not at all. Any stock EQ that comes with your audio software will do.
EQ Strategies includes all the information I've learned from 11 years of using EQ to make better sounding mixes. I guarantee that it will teach you something new to improve your mixes.
That said, if you don't think EQ Strategies taught you anything and you just didn't like the guide at all for any reason, simply email me and I'll refund your entire order. If you're not happy, I'm not happy.
Like I said before, this is your Ultimate Guide to EQ. It'll teach you to get the most out of EQ, starting at the beginner level but teaching you intermediate and advanced techniques throughout the guide.
If you're a beginner I will bring you to a more advanced level. If you're already familiar with EQ I'll still take your intermediate skills and build upon them, giving you advanced techniques to improve your mixes.
I cover almost every commonly used instrument in the EQ guide. So whether you're working with traditional rock-band instruments, hip-hop drum loops, EDM synths or jazzy horns and strings, I've got you covered.
My students have used the five plug-ins method to mix every style of music, from rock, country and folk to EDM, hip-hop and pop.
100% Risk-Free 365-Day Money-Back Guarantee
As with all of the Audio Issues products, EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ comes with a 100% risk-free money-back guarantee.
I promise that following the workflow inside my training will help you create more professional mixes from your home studio. After taking my training you'll know exactly what to do to create separation and balance in your mixes so you can hear all of your instruments and tracks clearly..
There is a reason my students have told me that my training has "instantly improved their mixes." Your fans will love the new professional sounds you're releasing, and you'll impress every new client that comes to your studio because you'll easily show them how good you can make them sound.
You can even read the materials and watch the videos before you make up your mind. You can try all the tricks and keep the training for a full year before deciding whether you like them or not. If at any point you decide that my training didn't skyrocket the quality of your productions, simply email me for a full refund, no questions asked or strings attached!
I take my guarantee very seriously. I am not interested in keeping your money if you do not get any value from what I'm creating for you.
So if you’re not happy, I’m not happy.
What Are Students Saying?
"Immediate and impressive"
"The format helped me solidify the basics very quickly. I sampled a few sessions with the concepts and found an immediate and pronounced improvement. Full of tips that are immediately useful...the initial results are immediate and impressive....thanks." -Dave Michaels
"Helping me immensely!"
"The Ultimate EQ Guide is helping me immensely! I am new to mixing but have been in many studios as a recording musician. It's helping me clean up muddy mixes and get more punch out of my recordings. I highly recommend it!" -Mo Mataquin
"All Very Helpful"
"I like the specific EQ tips for each instrument. They're all very helpful and I learned quite a few new things: bass harmonics, how to make the beaters pop on kick drums, adding more punch to snare drums, and tips to make guitars sit better in the mix (which also works for lead synths)." -Joseph Litherland
"The EQ Course was eye opening in many ways. Having had basically no previous information on mixing, the course really gave me a sense of how essential EQ'ing is to the process. It helped me take my mixes from muddy and boomy to fairly clear, and definitely helped me get some punch into kicks and basses. Some really basic things that i hadn't even considered, which really changed the way i approach music: like EQ'ing the reverb and delay effects themselves to avoid conflicts on different frequencies...it does an effective job of squeezing much information into little time, and the formulations are clear and pedagogical. The amount of useful information i gained from the course was impressive and I am extremely grateful for having been given these gems!"
Maximillian
Home Studio Producers
Imagine: You'll Bypass 10+ years of EQ'ing with Your Ultimate Guide to EQ
Instead of twisting knobs and scratching your head in a dimly lit music venue, you can learn everything you need about EQ in only a few hours.
EQ doesn't have to be a mystery so let me show you how to master it.
Don't learn behind a mixing board in a badly lit live venue like I did, with trial and error and randomly twisting knobs until "something" sounded "just ok..."
This guide will teach you everything I’ve learned since then, in a much more comfortable setting.
You'll know exactly where your instruments are clashing, making any EQ problem easy to fix. Once you master EQ, you'll be able to create space and separation between all the instruments in your mix.
You don't need to worry about muddy mixes any more because you'll know exactly how to clean up your low-mids.
You don't need to worry about a boxy drum sound because you know exactly how to EQ your drums to make them sound smoother.
You don't need to be scared about whether you're adding too much high-end harshness because you'll know exactly how to tame your high-mids.
You'll know exactly where your instruments are clashing, making any EQ problem easy to fix. Once you master EQ, you'll be able to create space and separation between all the instruments in your mix.
So if you want to master the art of EQ'ing, look no further. Once you've learned how EQ works and where you can fix the problem areas in your mix, your mixing skills will skyrocket!
No Boring Theory, Just Practical Tips to Create Separation and Balance in Your Mixes so You Can Elevate Your Home Studio Demos to Professional, Radio-Ready Productions.
Make Better Mixes With EQ Strategies - Your Ultimate Guide to EQ Today
All you gotta do is pick your package below. Once you finish the checkout process you'll be emailed a download link to access your products. At that point the only thing left to do is to start creating separation between your instruments and balance in your mixes with EQ.
Live Sound Basics Course
$97
Book, Bonuses and HD Video Course
EQ'ing Fundamentals Videos
One hour mix walkthrough on how to make better mixes with ONLY EQ
EQ'ing Strings and Brass Video
Live Sound Basics + Mixing With 5 Plug-ins
$197
Book, Bonuses, Videos and Flagship Course
Mixing With 5 Plug-ins Course: All 6 Course Modules on mixing with Volume & Panning, EQ, Compression, Reverb, Delay, Saturation and Mix Translation. All modules are delivered via video with in-depth written content as well.
