I think people are obsessed these days with using the HPF all the time....like there's this "you don't need" those LFs perspective...so just cut them out of everything, which in this digital age actually goes more towards creating bright/strident mixes.
I'm not saying you should never do that...HPF/LPF....but it's one thing to subtly correct EQ as you mix, it's another to by-default, just HPF or LPF everything, as some "better" way to mix....IMO.
YMMV.....
Yup, exactly. If this site alone is any indication of what's happening out there, then people are intentionally cutting and carving and compressing just because they think they're supposed to. "Oh god, cut out everything below 300hz so the low end isn't too boomy!". "We gotta carve out this range for the kick, and this range for the bass, and this range for the tambourine". Fucking dumb. It's monkey see monkey do because that kind of idiotic misinformation gets repeated ad nauseam on the internet. Or it's "I like this guy, and he does this, so I'm going to do it too". That kind of retardedness seems to happen a lot as well. No one seems to think it's a problem. People on internet message boards have buried the lead. What these people should be focusing on is just recording better tracks. Instead of spending more time on fixing garbage, spend more time on tracking better sounds. But I know that's not the sexy magic plug-in answer people want.