Welcome to the beginning my eleventh text, All About Equalization. I've known for decades that the subject of EQ was really the most important aspect of mixing quality, and therefore it would take a complete text to fully explain the subject. As students of the Recording Institute of Detroit you get a chance to read it as I am writing It. Initially it will be in the form of a series of articles in my DSP column, and this first article is entitled, "How and When to Adjust Bandwidth (Pt.1)."

In order to fully understand this article, you need a basic understanding of equalization - thing like equalization parameters, key frequencies for instruments and different common approaches used for equalizing in a mix. These subjects are well-covered in my basic EQ article, entitled "An Equalization Primer" (part of our RID Production School Study Module). It would be a good idea to review the basics before reading articles in this series. The linked module lesson will also give you an opportunity to take a test to check your comprehension.

There's recording, where equalization is often not applied. There's mixing where EQ is plentifully applied to get the instruments working together musically and with proper tone. And finally there is the mastering process where EQ is the main tool for the engineer to, in addition to general tome adjustment, "correct" the mix and often attempt to make instrument tone adjustments that really should have been done in the mix.

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