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Well a sub certainly helped me iron out some creases on the low-end it just gives a better feel for a tone rather than just EQ’ing for commercial purposes.

What host are you recording into?

There are various ways to sidechain, but normally you are quite right there is a compressor (with sidechain enabled) on the track you want to be ducked or dipped in volume. You then have a trigger track (normally the kick or vocals) which would need to be bussed to the side-chains input.

Aside from that look up dbaudioware they do sidechain plugins and there’s a tutorial on how to side chain using the waves compressors (however I always found waves to colour the sound in a horrible way and be a bit complex to work with)

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Ibanez 7620’s Sansamp PSA1, boss GX-700, and then voxengo pristine running a couple of recabinet impulses followed by some EQ and compression, pretty simple i think, what makes you ask?

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Ah i gotcha, yeah well actually that was just recorded left and right and swelling in on the volume pot on the gweetar.

so no delay apart from typical lead post-type delay.

As for the mix pumpin’ that’s one i’m struggling with, i’m trying to get in on the loudness game but it’s trying to get that initial signature mix before the master that’s really taking the time. I also seem to have a hellish 2/2.5k spike that i can’t seem to get rid of it’s more of an overtone/harmonic, any ideas how to remove harmonics by band?

Thanks again for the feedback Scott very help indeed 🙂

If you have the time check out our myspace and see what you think of this master compared to the one that’s up there see which one maybe works for ya, we’re finding that even with the best analyzers it’s still tough to get the mix solid on a greater number of systems.

Take it easy buddy

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D.
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Hi Scott, I often see your comments thanks for the feedback, which delay are you hearing on the guitars is it for the intro?

Anything overall on the mix that’s fatiguing the ol’ lobes?

Gonna put up some more tracks and developments of this mix so curious to know now what direction to turn 🙂

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Do you mix with a sub woofer in your system?

Regardless you can setup side-chaining to ensure the guitars are loud and then dip on a slow release when the vocals come in? Just a random idea, cos at the end of our guitars buss we tend to have a group track with overall mild compression just to keep the transients/overlaps in check and adding the sidechain is pretty much automatic so it’s doing 2 jobs at once but effortless to setup.

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Why thanks man 🙂

Well it’s a learning curve, guitars could still have a touch too much top end, it’s a bit of a mix and match with EQ’s, what did you mean by tracking? do you mean what preamps did we use?

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I think the track is great, i’m not i’m an expert but personally the guitars could do with being a tad louder, maybe these levels would suit for a vocal track over them but for me the drums were pretty cool on my system here but the guitars need to brought up in line with the rest of the mix.

Just my 2pennies heheh

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