What are you scooping these days?

[Exiterrr]

Got mud? Where are you guys cleaning up.

Depending on the mix of course, but I've been dipping a lot of 170-190 range along with 220-275ish. Sometimes it's a pretty big dip too. Maybe 10dB in some cases.

 

[darkmist255]

I like to cut around 250 on most instruments, but I'm interested to hear what others do.

 

[NickLAudio]

Maybe 10dB in some cases.

haha but on a serious note, I highpass to clean up mud. Kick ~30-50Hz, Bass ~60-80Hz, Guitars ~100-120Hz. I find doing a small 1-2dB dip at 1K on guitars helps them sit better in the mix. If a track is boxy or dull, i'll usually look to cut anywhere from 250~450Hz.

 

[Kullerbytta]

I tend to make a 1-4dB dip in the 700-750 area, 1-3 dB on 250, and roughly about 8-9 on 100hz

Then again I really have no clue as to what I'm doing and what would sound best for my mixes. All I know is that when I fiddle around like that it does tend to sound a bit better

 

[Kurkkuviipale]

400

 

[Lokasenna]

I don't do much scooping, as it were, but I'm definitely notching more than I used to. Usually somewhere around 200 on my guitar bus to kill any woofiness that the multicomp doesn't get, and then a couple up in the 4-10k range for icepick highs.

 

[Chi]

400-450 for sure. The frequency of the cardboard-box.

 

[Drew]

Got mud? Where are you guys cleaning up.

Depending on the mix of course, but I've been dipping a lot of 170-190 range along with 220-275ish. Sometimes it's a pretty big dip too. Maybe 10dB in some cases.

Across your entire mix, or just the guitar bus?

I generally DON'T put any EQ on my master bus - if it doesn't sound right there, I try to fix it upstream on the individual tracks.

On guitars, depending on the part/rest of the mix I'm usually high-passing fairly high anyway (100 to sometimes as high as 200 hz, give or take - I usually use the high pass on the Sonitus channel strip plug, which is unlabeled, and just raise it by ear, but when I've tried to A/B it with a pure EQ, that seems to be the range) and letting the bass cover the low end, so scooping at 170-190 and again at 220-275 would be sort of counterproductive.

Bass, I tend to do the two-track thing with a clean DI low-passed to 250-300 compressed to hell and back, and a high passed distorted/grit track cut off around 5-600, so there's a natural hole there anyway for the guitar's low mids, but accordingly you don't really want the guitars to be overpowering below 250 or so.