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Nice work.The lead seemed mixed kinda low to my ears, I wanted to hear more of your lead playing details.
 
VonBonfire said:
Nice work.The lead seemed mixed kinda low to my ears, I wanted to hear more of your lead playing details.
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The advice I got on that track was to keep the first 8 bars of the rhythm guitar exactly like I wanted it to sound - tone wise..

Then, when the lead guitar comes in, switch the rhythm guitars to double-tracked (two mono tracks, one panned left, the other right), then run the lead guitar right in the center as a stereo track.

Additionally, the guy told me to try pulling out all the 400Hz and 1,600Hz of the rhythm guitar track as soon as the lead comes in. While I see what he's doing there.. it does get the rhythm guitars "out of the way" and create a space for the lead guitar to sit in the mix, there's a jarring transition between that change after the opening riff.

But I think on my next track I'll still take his advice, but maybe dial back that wild disparity between the two EQ curves on the rhythm guitars.
 
Arch Stanton said:
The advice I got on that track was to keep the first 8 bars of the rhythm guitar exactly like I wanted it to sound - tone wise..

Then, when the lead guitar comes in, switch the rhythm guitars to double-tracked (two mono tracks, one panned left, the other right), then run the lead guitar right in the center as a stereo track.

Additionally, the guy told me to try pulling out all the 400Hz and 1,600Hz of the rhythm guitar track as soon as the lead comes in. While I see what he's doing there.. it does get the rhythm guitars "out of the way" and create a space for the lead guitar to sit in the mix, there's a jarring transition between that change after the opening riff.

But I think on my next track I'll still take his advice, but maybe dial back that wild disparity between the two EQ curves on the rhythm guitars.
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I'll check it out!
 
Arch Stanton said:
The advice I got on that track was to keep the first 8 bars of the rhythm guitar exactly like I wanted it to sound - tone wise..

Then, when the lead guitar comes in, switch the rhythm guitars to double-tracked (two mono tracks, one panned left, the other right), then run the lead guitar right in the center as a stereo track.

Additionally, the guy told me to try pulling out all the 400Hz and 1,600Hz of the rhythm guitar track as soon as the lead comes in. While I see what he's doing there.. it does get the rhythm guitars "out of the way" and create a space for the lead guitar to sit in the mix, there's a jarring transition between that change after the opening riff.

But I think on my next track I'll still take his advice, but maybe dial back that wild disparity between the two EQ curves on the rhythm guitars.
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Don’t think to much though go with it some
 
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