Mixing with EQ: Essential Tips from 7 PRO Music Producers | Waves Mix Mafia Ep.1

Apr 24, 2025 | 13,824 Views

Transform the way you mix using EQ with these quick, practical tips from 7 producers, each sharing their favorite EQ trick to help you work smarter and more musically with tone, balance, and frequencies.

In this first episode of Mix Mafia, Dan Cooper kicks things off with a time-saving workflow tip using F6, before handing off to six more creators who each show a different EQ technique—from vocal carving and mix bus enhancements to creative tone shaping and multi-EQ layering.

Watch how Waves plugins like F6, Curves Equator, REQ, Curves AQ, Scheps 73 and PuigTec EQP-1A are used to solve real-world mixing problems and bring clarity, energy, and character to your tracks.

Video Chapters:

  • 0:00 – Mix Mafia Introduction
  • 0:28 - Dan: Changing default preset so your EQ is ready how you want it
  • 1:30 – Bradley: Carving space for vocals using sidechain EQ with Curves Equator
  • 3:59 – Valentina: Using creative EQ as a vocal effect
  • 5:33 – Marcus: Stacking surgical and analog EQs for control and character
  • 7:48 – Yanai: Letting AI help kickstart your mix with Curves AQ suggestions
  • 10:15 – Guy: Bringing clarity and air to the mix bus using REQ
  • 11:43 – Jerry: Boosting low end while cleaning mud with the classic Pultec EQ trick
  • 13:31 – What are your best EQ mixing tricks?

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