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Aug 15 2012, 10:01 AM
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Yes getting the tone you want before you start recording is better than trying to correct it in the mix. However, having said all of that what really matters is how the guitar track/s sit in the mix so that it is balanced correctly and that implies that you get the levels, gainstage and the panning sorted properly before you EQ etc. When you do EQ distorted guitars occupy a lot of the audible spectrum due to the overtones produced by the distortion and so can mask a lot. EQing them often involves dealing with those overtones but you EQ wrt the mix and not just to get a great guitar tone.
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Aug 15 2012, 10:26 AM
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A lot of us set up our guitar tones to sound great by themselves, it always surprises me to hear solo'd guitar tracks from famous songs/artists and they sound horribly trebley by themselves but great within the context of the mix
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Aug 16 2012, 09:13 AM
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Thought that was your point
 just saying more as a heads up for others as the internet is full of sites where people give mixing 'tips' which focus on individual instruments rather than the mix.QUOTE (The Uncreator @ Aug 15 2012, 10:50 PM)  ... Also, a really good tip I can give to anyone else. This is something I started doing recently, its mixing with my eyes closed. I dont look at the meters, or the signal in the EQ, I just listen with my eyes closed for 1-2 minutes, and then make changes accordingly, and repeat. I think sitting there and staring at the screen and focusing on the meter (which isn't always that accurate from a DAW) or how your EQ or effects are acting affect how people could perceive the sound. Totally agree. I keep trying to tell people that you mix wit your ears and not your eyes although very few people seem to listen. In the first studio I worked in many years ago the senior engineer put gaffa tape over the meters to make all of us learn that. One of the early lessons I put trainees through here is listening to tracks at -6, -3, 0, +3, +6 around our usual set point so that they get used to hearing how things change with level. Another one we do is to get the trainee to try to replicate changes made so they have to listen and work out what I'e done to a mix. Helps a lot though to have a calibrated monitoring chain. We also keep the pc screen and other stuff to the side and we face the speakers. It's more to ensure that there's nothing between us and the speakers but it also helps by reducing visual distractions. One other issue is that people get obsessed with replicating the exact settings of an EQ, comp or whatever that they see someone else using. What most of them don't realise is that those settings won't translate 100% between different processors because of differences in filter design, compression types and so on. What they need to do is learn to listen to what is being done rather than look at settings... -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Aug 16 2012, 11:35 PM
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That's a great video mate! I wish I would have found a video like this one when I was doing my first mixes!
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