I'm on my second time through watching Andy Wallaces "Natural Born Killers" Mix with The Masters session. I'm going back and forth between one of my mixes and his NBK one and the one thing that strikes me is the clarity. That mix is soo clear. My mixes are not bad. I'm quite pleased with my general balance, my automation moves are tasteful, but they in general sound a little foggy. He's on an SSL board, and I watched him make all those eq moves... I'm just dinking around with ReaEQ, cutting here, boosting here, adjusting the curve there ... I'm just not getting to where I want to be. Sometimes I'll reference an eq "cheat sheet", sometimes I'll just go blind and try and listen to what needs to be done, but I feel like things should be easier... I feel like I'm missing a tool. Maybe some channel strip plugin? Maybe I need a big board like his? I'm sure someone much more skilled than myself could do it only using ReaEQ, but I'm not sure the parametric eq is necessarily the right tool for what I'm' trying to do...

Can anybody shed some light on my dilemma? I'm sure some of you have been there. Hopefully I'm explaining myself clearly...

Thanks.