yes thats it basically. just isolate your parts and spectrum analyse them, or run them through the oscilloscope i posted earlier for AK.blizt wrote:Im interested in this, but how do you do that? Simply by looking at the highest peaks on the eq chart? What are the more accurate methods? If you can elaborate a bit it will be great, because i always hear about avoiding clashing frequencies but i dont know how to properly analyse the spectrum on my tracks. Thanks.steevio wrote:
its worth doing an exercise in checking all the fundamental frequencies of everything in your mix, and then charting them, and it becomes really obvious what needs tuning up or down. your ears are only partially good enough to spot these overlapping frequencies in a complex mix, but when you use this method to change things, you notice the difference straight away.
the biggest spike to the left will usually be your fundamental, each subsequent spike will be a harmonic, or another note if its say a chord or compound sound. a chord will be a mixture of notes and harmonics, but its not difficult to work out which is which.
download the harmonic chart from wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_s ... 28music%29
read up on harmonics, and read it again till it becomes normal to think in harmonics, this stuff is so fundamental to music and mixing that you have to know it.