What Does 300 Hz Sound Like

300 Hz

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hey, i promise this is the appropriate forum to post this question in..

i tend to dip everything in my project around 300 hz, but i know this isn't a professional approach to mixing. can't remember the interview, merely pensado commented that he used to do the same affair in the early stages of his career.

so my question is: what instruments should continue their 300 hz? i know it'south context-dependent, merely are there any full general patterns anyone has noticed nearly instruments that tend to occupy 300 hz nicely. similar... should this be reserved for the depression of end of the snare... or should i leave my 300 for my guitars, etc.

thanks in advance

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I wouldn't cut off everything at that frequency. Generally you lot would want to low cut everything except kick and bass at 100. Everything depends on the sound. Some times an eq boost at 250-300 tin can bring torso to a snare for case.

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This is super program dependent in my opinion. A lot of keyboard instruments, guitars, vocals, drums and air current instruments will take energy in the low mids that can either bring something dainty or dirty to the mix, so it will always come up downwards to the importance of the given part in the production.

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Originally Posted by angelsson ➡️

so my question is: what instruments should keep their 300 hz? i know information technology's context-dependent, only are there any full general patterns anyone has noticed about instruments that tend to occupy 300 hz nicely. similar... should this be reserved for the depression of finish of the snare... or should i leave my 300 for my guitars, etc.

or maybe you should leave a piddling bit for the snare and a footling bit for the guitars and have them "share" the 300hz? There are as many 'solutions' to this problem as in that location are songs to mix.

I call up yous are right in that information technology is context-dependent and the IMO sooner y'all let go of the idea that there might exist some ways of short-cut that, the sooner you will get a handle on what you may need to practice.

In my heed, at that place are no good frequencies or bad frequencies. In that location may be frequencies there are too much of or not enough of.
"300 Hz" is just a number. I take a frequency chart I hand out to my students, and many areas are labeled with descriptive terms besides as numerical terms. The label for this surface area is: "fullness/mud". Well "fullness" is expert, for the most role, 1 would recall, and "mud" is bad for the most function. Just number-wise, information technology's the same frequency.

Yous might want to enquire yourself why you are having an "result" at this 1 frequency that you always need to cut it? Could there be a crash-land in your microphone? Might there be some kind of problem in your room? Is your room resonating a lot around there and picking up on your mics?

Is information technology the aforementioned room you are mixing in? Peradventure your mix has a 'perfect' amount of 300 Hz and you only remember information technology's a problem because your

room

is resonating at that frequency? How practise your mixes interpret? Etc etc.

Thanks so much for these answers - all were very helpful and I really appreciate it. Interesting to consider boosting that region for snares, and I similar the idea of leaving it untouched for male vocals, equally well equally the idea of letting instruments share that space.

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ALL THE Fourth dimension? No dude... Cutting in that surface area helps remove boxy/muddy noise from vocals and from drums usually, but it should be done to make the track sound better. Don't do it because y'all heard someone else do information technology, even if they're a pro, unless you understand WHY doing it helped them or how it could help your song. Your vocal is not their vocal.

That range is too bery dependent on your room, both recording- and mixwise. I tend to cut a fleck of 250-300 in most tracks considering my room amplifies that range.

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