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[QUOTE="Mpumelelo von Mumhanzi, post: 15772, member: 2173"]
There are absolutely no de-facto best settings for audio mastering or for mixing music. It's all about taste — as Dave Pensado likes to call it. There are however certain guidelines that come in handy when one wants their audio material to fit a specific style, trend, or whatever.

For example, sharp/gentle boosts for the bottom and wider boosts for the top end, because at low frequencies, the human ear differentiates changes in frequency better than it does at high frequencies.

In other words, it's much easier to tell the difference between 80 Hz and 100 Hz compared to 8000 Hz and 8100 Hz.

So why would someone want to use a narrow quality factor for high frequencies unless they are trying to fix something requiring a surgical EQ? It would sound piercing. Nevertheless, that might actually be one's desired sound they want after all.

And as for the bottom end, wide boosts will make the audio material sound boomy obviously depending on the bass that's currently present at the moment. If a mix is thin then there shouldn't be issues.
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