Originally Posted by
dirkd
The first part is because your speakers have bad response below 400hz, you're compensating for sub-standard monitors (do you have a sub?). If you have a car stereo I would use this as a gold standard if you do not have a pristine monitoring environment, its a trick I learned a long time ago that's actually held up quite well over the years. Granted the low-end (sub 200hz) is easily the trickiest part of a mix to get right because it is the hardest for the human ear to register correctly given that the frequency response for the human ear is not flat and low frequencies are felt rather than heard.
It sounding bad when you increase the mids/highs is likely that there is too much going on there frequency wise. Clever EQ-cutting, multi-band sidechaining and other tricks to balance the tracks you're trying to mash might help here. Right now you're turning down vital frequency bands because you're getting sonic clashes due to that part of the spectrum being overly busy, or sonically incompatible. Have you checked keys for the two tracks to make sure they're sonically compatible with one another?
It's hard to provide an honest opinion without having something to listen to however, everything I've provided here is just conjecture and without a reference I can't really overly helpful.
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