This morning I was listening to Killswitch Engage's "The End Of Heartache" and also "The Undying Darkness" from Caliban, the guitars sound really 3D.
I noticed the guitars do have a real gap somewhere to let the drums, vocals and bass midrange to come through. I usually reduce around 500-600 Hz and also somewhere in the 5-6 khz area (fizz), but I tried this on a recent project, where I had four tracks of guitar, reamped with a 5150, only 57 :
I duplicated each of the four tracks, now we have 8. Let's call them take1 take1copy, take2, take2copy, etc...
On each original track I tried to keep only the low/low mids area (from 60 Hz to 250 Hz), and applied a multiband compressor to tighten the things.
On each copied track (take1copy,take2copy...) I only kept the high mids/highs area (from 1 khz to 12 khz), and reduced the fizz a bit.
I didn't have the time to experiment more but it sounded more clear and 3D, I wonder if Mr Sneap does something like that to his guitars, or if he just apply a slight EQ there and there ? What do you think of that ? I found it works better than a simple cut in the 500-600 Hz area. Andy can you tell us a bit more about what you do to the guitars ?
I noticed the guitars do have a real gap somewhere to let the drums, vocals and bass midrange to come through. I usually reduce around 500-600 Hz and also somewhere in the 5-6 khz area (fizz), but I tried this on a recent project, where I had four tracks of guitar, reamped with a 5150, only 57 :
I duplicated each of the four tracks, now we have 8. Let's call them take1 take1copy, take2, take2copy, etc...
On each original track I tried to keep only the low/low mids area (from 60 Hz to 250 Hz), and applied a multiband compressor to tighten the things.
On each copied track (take1copy,take2copy...) I only kept the high mids/highs area (from 1 khz to 12 khz), and reduced the fizz a bit.
I didn't have the time to experiment more but it sounded more clear and 3D, I wonder if Mr Sneap does something like that to his guitars, or if he just apply a slight EQ there and there ? What do you think of that ? I found it works better than a simple cut in the 500-600 Hz area. Andy can you tell us a bit more about what you do to the guitars ?