Andy, how do you treat your guitars when mixing ?

[Sly]

Andy, if ever you read this message , what treatments do you do to your guitars when mixing ? I know you get the best of the amp, and have a great sound from the start, but do you EQ your guitars a lot ?

I know you use the C4 to tighten the lows/low meds.
When I mix guitars, if they were tracked correctly, I find out that "key" frequencies to play with are something like : 90 Hz (bottom end), 250 Hz-300 Hz (low meds), 500-1 Khz (I have to cut there when I tracked too middy guitars), 2,2 khz (mediator), 3-5 khz (presence and fizz), 10 khz (air). What EQ do you use and do you start with some "key" frequencies too ? Do you apply other treatments ?

Thanks

 

[~BURNY~]

See what Colin Richardson has to say about it:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/andy-sneap/258421-eq-rhythm-guitars-mixdown.html?highlight=basher

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

ANAB he doesn't Eq much. High and low pass, and that's pretty much it (maybe a slight dip in the highs sometimes). He doesn't necessarily use the C4 either. For some unknow magical reason unknown to us poor mortals, he just get this amazing sound during the recording.

 

[Sly]

Yeah that's what I thought, he seems to get a killer sound out of his amps. The Cranesong Spider must help to get that creamy sound.
Does he use hardware or plugin EQ ?

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

I've seen him use the Sony Oxford EQ (plugin), not sure if he eqs on the way in to the track though.

 

[greyskull]

gotta love that eq

 

[-J-]

See what Colin Richardson has to say about it:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/andy-sneap/258421-eq-rhythm-guitars-mixdown.html?highlight=basher

thanks for linking that!