Help With My Tone/mix Please Options

[Phil66]

Hello folks,

Please take a listen to this file, no need to think about the playing, I was just throwing some ideas around but how can I make the guitar sound better in the mix?

Pictures of settings are below, the "Mid Edge" knob on the Hotbird is switched on and it gives + 7db (6db/oct) from 300 to 2.5K Hz (Whatever that means but that's what the bloke who made it said ). Only the knobs without the circle around them are in use. The clipping is set to amber, this gives "soft symmetrical clipping, for a particularly impressive distortion with a noticeable volume increase compared to other clipping, and extremely dynamic from which it is possible to obtain overdrive sounds". Bass lift/boost is off and it is in the vintage setting.

https://soundcloud.com/gmcphil-1/assignment-3-take-8-blues-scale






Thanks for your help folks, I'm away for four days from tomorrow so you have plenty of time to ponder

Cheers, I really appreciate your help and guidance

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[Mertay]

I think you're getting the idea cause the guitar now isn't "hidden" inside the mix means you made an effort for it to be heard but not too cutting or loud, its already starting to work

On first listen I thought picking harder (or using a thinner pick) and setting the guitars switch to middle position would have sounded better, specially with the xlr track.

Although Darius has a point of the sm57 sound, I feel when adjusting the amp eq's listening from the xlr output would be more intuitive. Its more "boring" sounding maybe but has a nice balance for begining to adjust eq, right after getting the settings then adding the sm57 (slowly volume-wise) for that extra mojo/dynamics (so maybe won't have to deal with compressor).

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