I've been reading through the book ReaMix, which is a primer on mixing down in Reaper, and for many of the the mixing examples in the book the author splits the signal path of a track into two or three different channels (channel splitting in reaper is the equivalent of running tracks and FX in parallel, except it all happens on one track through different channels), applies a separate EQ to each path, and then routes all track channels back into one mixer plugin to mix them together.
Rick Snoman also uses this technique in Logic in his dimensional mixing videos from dancemusicproduction.com.
This feels like a lot of unnecessary work. What's the advantage in running duplicate track A w/ +4db @ 300Hz and track B w/ +4dB @ 8kHz, as opposed to a single track with the same two boosted bands in one EQ instance?
I can see the advantages in channel splitting for processing mid/side or L/R separately. But can someone enlighten me as to why two parallel stereo channels with independent stereo EQ's could be a better option than an identical EQ curve on one track.
Hope that makes sense.
Submitted May 07, 2017 at 04:02PM by morganOMVK99 https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/69t1zn/advantages_of_parallel_eq/?utm_source=ifttt