home recording guys please help....

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so my band has been doing some recording and been having a hard time getting the mix sounding right ...do any of you guys no of the ball park of frequencies were each instrument should be ? and any other advise or suggestions would be great......the guitars are also panned 1 left 1 right 100% each way should this be this way? thanks
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i can't offer much in the way of frequencies help. most of my decent mixes have come from playing with it til it sounds right, or line your mix up with a mix you really like and try to match some of the sounds. for guitars, how many rhythm tracks do you have? i think 100 each way is a little far out, but that could just be me. i do quads or triples for my rhythm guitars, the quads, i put L60 L30 R30 R60, the triples i have experimented with L60 0 R60. the quads that way are really big, the triples that way are not as big but more aggressive. just some ideas. for me at least, when you get the rhythm guitars out too far, you lose the intensity. depends what you're going for. i like big huge "in your face" wall of sound (think alter bridge, seether, creed, breaking benjamin). guitar solos i run straight down the middle, or a little off center (10 -20), lead guitars (complementary parts) i try to throw off center a little too. i pretty much only put reverb/echo/etc.. on drums, vocals, clean/acoustic guitars and lead stuff. the rhythm stuff and bass i leave dry. again, matter of preference based on the sound i'm trying to achieve.


good luck :thumbsup:
 
try this:

for distorted guitars:

cut low freq from 150hz down, cut highs from 15000hz up.

boost the 1,500 freq maybe a couple of dbs


Bass. cut low freq. 60hz down and 12,000hz up. Boost the 700hz a db or so

double track the guitars and compress them (don't slam them too much)

pana couple of the guitars -60 60+ and the others -50 50+
 
I try to get everything sounding where I want it before using eq or compressing anything at all.. this includes setting up volume envelopes, pan envelopes, etc. Once things are in the ballpark of sounding where they should, then start rolling in eq changes, and do these with all tracks running. (eq'ing instruments while solo'ed doesn't really help you, in other words).

Panning 100 L / R can work fine, a lot of solid mixes have been done this way. Listening to your track, you may want to pan the guitar on the left towards the middle when it's that guitar on its own.

You can also considering using a touch of delay on both guitars during the single note sections.... a small enough amount that it's not really noticeable in the mix, but it would add a bit of depth to everything.

Some reference links:

http://www.independentrecording.net/irn ... isplay.htm

http://www.recordingwebsite.com/articles/eqprimer.php

http://recording.songstuff.com/article/eq_frequencies
 
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