RSR446 - Sara Carter - How To EQ Everything in Your Home Studio!

Recording Studio Rockstars

Lij Shaw

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🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

Trust your first instinct! Sara talked about setting up your monitors for accurate mixing, how to place your subwoofer, learning to balance a mix first, why 85db is too loud, the power of a high pass filter, group vs solo audition, and mixing vocals.

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My guest today is Sara Carter, a BBC trained mixing engineer based in Leicester (pronounced "lester") in the UK. Sara started recording and mixing music as a hobby in the mid-90s then later turned it into a full-time career after studying Audio Engineering at the SAE Institute in London and working as a Sound Engineer for the BBC.

Sara learned her trade at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios by working under the mentorship of some of the best engineers in the business. During this time, Sara worked with a wide variety of artists such as Adele, The Black Keys and Rod Stewart to name a few. More recently she focuses on helping home studio musicians mix music at home through her training courses, coaching sessions and YouTube channel, Simply Mixing.

If you enjoy this interview please check out our earlier episodes RSR204 and RSR377 when we talked about her background in music and shared some great home studio mixing tips. Today we are going to focus more on how to eq everything and then get into some compression talk.

Thanks again to my brother from another podcast Matt Boudreau at Working Class Audio for making our original introduction!

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0:00.0	This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Adam Audio, Isotope, native instruments,
0:08.8	Luit, and Grace Design. You're hearing my voice right now on the Luit, Pure Tube microphone,
0:16.4	through the Grace Design M201 Mark Tube micprie, mixed mixed through isotope, RX, ozone, neutron, and nectar,
0:26.2	all on atom audio monitors.
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0:32.7	It's a great way to help support this show, and there's some great deals waiting for you there.
0:37.0	Now get ready to rock.
0:41.6	Something that happens a lot is whilst you're thinking about these EQ moves that you're
0:47.9	going to do, is you're not giving your ear enough time to actually build in a memory.
0:54.5	Oftentimes I see people making EQ moves
0:57.5	when the transport has stopped,
0:59.9	pull out 200 hertz with a belt,
1:02.3	and not even listen to the result of that.
1:05.5	Music Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. I'm Lid Shaw and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio.
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