Week 1 · Tuesday
Earn credibility with skeptical bedroom producers by naming the specific low-mid problem they can't name themselves — and drive comments that signal the content is landing on real mixes.
Posting window: Tuesday, 7:30 PM PT
Posting times shown in Pacific Time (PT) — adjust to your audience's timezone in your scheduler.
Hook options
Pick the one you’ll use — the script opener updates to match
There's a frequency band quietly ruining your mix. Nobody names it.
Your mix doesn't need more compression. It needs a cut.
Two hundred fifty to three fifty hertz. That's the whole problem.
Stop reaching for the limiter when your mix sounds muddy.
Your mix sounds full and cloudy at the same time, right?
Script
Opener (0:00 – 0:10)
There's a frequency band quietly ruining your mix, and nobody on your feed names it. Two hundred fifty to three fifty hertz.
Body
Solo your low-mids there. Really listen. That's where your acoustic guitar, your piano left hand, your vocal body, your snare bottom, and your room all pile up on top of each other. Nothing sounds wrong on its own. Together, it's a wall of soup. I have fixed more muddy, amateur-sounding mixes with one narrow cut in that range than by touching a single limiter. Pull up an EQ. Narrow Q. Sweep slowly between two fifty and three fifty on whichever track is holding the most body. When it opens up, you've found it. Three decibels down is usually enough.
Close / CTA
Try it tonight on the song you've been stuck on. Tell me what you hear.
≈ 136 words · about 55 s at single-take pace
On-screen graphics
Planned from the script at your reading pace. Times are approximate: drop each graphic over the line it belongs to.
| About | They say | Graphic | On screen |
|---|---|---|---|
| About0:00–0:03 | They sayYour hook, as you open | GraphicTitle | On screenThere's a frequency band quietly ruining your mix. Nobody names it.Picture: a dim EQ curve with one band glowing between two gridlines |
| About0:14–0:20 | They say“piano left hand, your vocal body” | GraphicList | On screenacoustic guitar / piano left hand / vocal body / snare bottom / room |
| About0:24–0:26 | They say“Together, it's a wall” | GraphicKeyword | On screenWALL OF SOUP |
| About0:36–0:38 | They say“Narrow Q” | GraphicLabel | On screennarrow QPicture: a tight bell curve pinned over the highlighted band |
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or another AI tool to build these graphics as clips.
Production paths
- 1.Set up your phone vertically at eye level, roughly arm's length away. Frame chest-up with your interface or monitors visible behind you so viewers immediately read 'engineer, not influencer.'
- 2.Film in a room with soft light on your face — a window or a lamp bounced off a wall. Avoid overhead shadows.
- 3.Record the full script as one continuous take, straight to camera, using your phone mic. Pace is conversational — this needs to breathe for 60 seconds, so don't rush the sweep description.
- 4.Shoot three takes minimum. The right one has you actually listening in the middle, like you're hearing the mud in your head as you describe it.
- 5.Open CapCut, drop the best take on the timeline. Trim any dead air at the top so the first word hits in frame one.
- 6.Add captions using CapCut's auto-caption feature. Clean up any misheard numbers (250, 350, hertz, dB) by hand.
- 7.Add the on-screen graphics from the cue sheet, one per cue, over the line it belongs to. Keep type large, high-contrast, and sans-serif.
- 8.Export at 1080x1920, high quality. Save a clean master before adding platform-specific captions.
Platform captions
The frequency range nobody on your feed names. Try the sweep tonight and tell me what track was holding it.
Hashtags
If your mix sounds full and cloudy at the same time, this is almost always where it's living. Solo your low-mids, sweep slowly between 250 and 350, and listen for the moment the track opens up. Three dB down is usually enough. Try it tonight — tell me what you heard.
Hashtags
Title
The 250 Hz cut nobody talks about #mixing #homestudio
Caption
Episode 1 of Your Mix Is Diagnosable. The low-mid range between 250 and 350 Hz is where most bedroom mixes get muddy — and almost nobody names it. Here's how to find it and how much to cut.
Thumbnail brief
Build this in Canva — it's a design brief, not a prompt to paste.
Save a still of your face from the recording (Record → Save a frame) and open it in Canva — the brief builds everything around the face. Which frame: mid-sentence frame where you're saying 'wall of soup' — eyes on the lens, mouth slightly open, head tilted a few degrees like you're mid-explanation
- Crop
- 9:16 vertical, chest-up framing of you from the recording, eyes slightly off-center, interface or monitors visible but blurred behind you
- Words
- 250–350 Hz / NOBODY NAMES IT
- Placement
- overlay text stacked in the lower third, left-aligned; the EQ band element sits top-right over the blurred background
- Colors
- deep charcoal background, warm off-white type, a single accent of amber on the highlighted EQ band
- Element
- a simple flat EQ curve with one band between two gridlines glowing amber
Scheduling
Tool: Later
- 1.Open Later and upload the exported 1080x1920 video to your media library.
- 2.Create a new post and select TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts as the destinations.
- 3.Paste the matching caption into each platform's field — do not reuse the TikTok caption on Reels or Shorts, they're written differently on purpose.
- 4.For YouTube Shorts, paste the Shorts title above into the title field. Leave the Shorts hashtag field empty — the two tags are already in the title.
- 5.Upload the designed thumbnail to the YouTube Shorts post as the custom thumbnail.
- 6.Set the schedule to Tuesday, 7:30 PM PT.
- 7.Double-check that the first frame of the video is clean — Later's preview shows what will appear in the feed.
- 8.Confirm and schedule.
Lead capture
Where this should drive
This piece is week-one, top-of-funnel. Its job is credibility and comments, not a click. Every reply that says 'tried it, worked on my vocal' is both social proof and a warm lead for later pieces in the series — the booking-focused and DM-keyword asks show up in weeks three and four, after the audience has heard you diagnose three different problems. Pushing a booking link here would skip the trust-build that makes those later asks convert.