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) Be patient - it will help You way more in future mixing 
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Dec 18 2013, 02:46 PM
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I think it's better now.
Ok...we know that there is no place for hard rules in mixing but to give You sort of guide let's just say veeeeery often great cutting point for guitars is around 400-500 Hz example -  Experiment with this kind of cut. You will hear how guitars become heavier. You will also expirience that You will have to cut more mids from the drums. When we listen to professinal productions of this kind of genre, they are usually dried out of mids. Now...find Yourself a reference soung the mix You like and try to roll the eq to get close to the guitars. You will feel Your guitars sound fat comparing to those recordings. Waiting for next sample. My example: I've compared and try to fit Your mix to popular productions. I;ve added this sort of EQ (quick test - don't consider it professional) :  
elno_full_mix_sample.wav ( 4.61MB )
Number of downloads: 117So it's an image of how many mids are still able to be cut. While doing the cuts on each track remember You can add some volume. We do the cut's to make instruments fit to each other. Sometimes some corrections come out once we fix other instrument eq. When You cut the guitars You might feel that drums are too fat comparing to guitars. You can add more dB of mids cut to the drums as well. |
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Dec 18 2013, 05:51 PM
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QUOTE (Darius Wave @ Dec 18 2013, 01:46 PM)  I think it's better now. Ok...we know that there is no place for hard rules in mixing but to give You sort of guide let's just say veeeeery often great cutting point for guitars is around 400-500 Hz example - Experiment with this kind of cut. You will hear how guitars become heavier. You will also expirience that You will have to cut more mids from the drums. When we listen to professinal productions of this kind of genre, they are usually dried out of mids. Now...find Yourself a reference soung the mix You like and try to roll the eq to get close to the guitars. You will feel Your guitars sound fat comparing to those recordings. Waiting for next sample. My example: I've compared and try to fit Your mix to popular productions. I;ve added this sort of EQ (quick test - don't consider it professional) :
elno_full_mix_sample.wav ( 4.61MB )
Number of downloads: 117So it's an image of how many mids are still able to be cut. While doing the cuts on each track remember You can add some volume. We do the cut's to make instruments fit to each other. Sometimes some corrections come out once we fix other instrument eq. When You cut the guitars You might feel that drums are too fat comparing to guitars. You can add more dB of mids cut to the drums as well. damn!  i like the way it soundsss i wish I could do the same lol. What was it that you cut mids from again? just the guitar? like did you cut the mids off the drums too?? or all that change was from that cut you have a picture of??
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Dec 18 2013, 06:30 PM
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Here's what I did so far, I cut the guitars! so it does seem to help a lot man!
as for lead guitars is there mixing for that as well?? i'm seeing progress for sure
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Dec 18 2013, 07:29 PM
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Second screen is an eq for all mix not just guitars. You can get similar effects by cutting slme mids k all instruments.
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Dec 24 2013, 10:21 AM
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Please repost the sample - somehow the link doesn't display in the post
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Dec 24 2013, 06:29 PM
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QUOTE (Darius Wave @ Dec 24 2013, 09:21 AM) Please repost the sample - somehow the link doesn't display in the post ooops lol I was waiting for your reply  I thought it was attached haha here's the sample I uploaded it to soundcloud because it kept on saying too large to upload lol https://soundcloud.com/enlo22/sample |
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Dec 30 2013, 08:10 PM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KKYJD09qCk i like the tone of this!
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Jan 2 2014, 06:55 AM
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QUOTE (Darius Wave @ Jan 1 2014, 06:12 PM) As You probably noticed is veeery scooped out of mids. You can set this as a reference while while cutting out the mids in Your mix. Sometimes it's done at the mastering stage...so even if You leave too much mids at mixing stage, You can always correct it on the mastering stage. Comparing Your mix to this I can already say You could cut more bass and mids from the guitar. If You still have this 500 Hz eq on each guitar track (rhythm guitars) try to add some extra few dB (2-3) to each track and show me how this sounds. As for the mentioned bass cut...I would do it with High Pass filter. At the moment Your guitar are too boomy comparing to rest of the mix ok man cool here's what i got https://soundcloud.com/enlo22/sample |
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Jan 2 2014, 11:05 AM
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Ok it's better but still need to work on that. Can You post a screen of all the EQ setup for guitars?
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