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    synthet1c
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    this is why anyone who produces music to be played on ipod’s/radio/TV will have 3 or 4 different types of speakers when producing and doing the final mixdown as these playback formats sound very different to a club system.

    Hip Hop is the same, it’s most likely going to be played in a car or on a big home stereo so should have the final mixdown similar speakers, as any decently loud system will make the track sound much brighter than your flat studio monitors.

    When your mastering though always keep in the back of your mind that less is more. If you don’t redline or compress your audio too much you will have a dynamic sounding track. And if you want a sound louder try turning down all the other noises and make some space to hear it in the mix before turning it up.

    Also a decent spectrum analyser VST will save you a lot of time and help you to fill al the frequencies with the appropriate level of sound.

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    NewportDJ Drew
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    EQ has two basic rules. Flatter the better. Cut don’t boost. But then you need to know about the effects both good and bad of each frequency, how it may introduce phase interaction and finally what an equal loudness contour graph is.

    http://www.idmforums.com/showthread.php?t=18237 for a guide to each frequency and where you use it.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour for an rough explanation about equal loudness contour.

    I found a great explaination of how eq phase interacts…
    The way an equalizer works is that you have filters [fixed or variable] that carve out a little piece of the audio… that little piece of the audio is then added to the original signal in either positive or negative polarity [“boost” being the addition in positive polariy, cut being the addition in negative polarity].
    Anytime you run any signal through an analog filter you’re going to get a phase shift. The phase shift is a timing issue…
    excerpt from an answer http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/29748-analog-eq-phase-issues.html

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