What's your favorite EQ plugin, and why?

I'd like you all to welcome the newest mentor here at mastering.com Joseph Berg. He will be a mentor in the Membership Club for our VIP students who can book 1-on-1 sessions. He's an emmy nominated engineer who is also a student in The Reverse Engineer program with graduated with our official certification. Joseph is super talented and you all are going to love him! Please take a second and congratulate him! Bio: Joseph Berg is an accomplished audio engineer and lifelong musician who has worked as the mixing engineer on multiple Emmy-nominated film and television projects, including HBO’s Stax: Soulsville USA, which received two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program and went on to win the 85th Annual Peabody Award for Best Documentary. In addition to his mixing work, Joseph has served as a mastering engineer on records with critically acclaimed musicians and engineers, including Grammy Award-winning engineer Mack Major (PJ Morton, Tank and the Bangas, The Revivalists), platinum-selling engineer Mike Napolitano, platinum-selling musician and producer Jimbo Mathis of Squirrel Nut Zippers, and legendary blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite, known for collaborations with Tom Waits, Muddy Waters, and Eddie Vedder, as well as multiple Grammy nominations and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame. Excited to have you Joseph!!!

We’re going to film a video called “mix trick or trash?” for YouTube. Well read out a common mixing tip, then each vote if it’s a great trick, or total trash. What are the most controversial mixing tips and tricks you can think of that we could cover?