Can anyone point me to a guide or something that details a few different methods when mixing clean guitars?
Thanks.
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Recording clean guitars
- Thread starter Vicioushead
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i always cut the bass out, add subtle delay, add a room, compress to hell
what it sounds like (from mylast project)
CLEAN GUITARS
cheers
S.
what it sounds like (from mylast project)
CLEAN GUITARS
cheers
S.
Sloan
Sounds like shit!
i really like LeXTC's clean shit.
I do not really like V30's for clean, jenson's seem to rule that roost for me.
I do not really like V30's for clean, jenson's seem to rule that roost for me.
Sloan
Sounds like shit!
JakeAC5253
Frozen Sun Audio
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I don't work with cleans a lot, but I find that if I cut at 800Hz, it makes the cleans softer and makes space for vocal and lead parts.
This clip exhibits this, but don't mind the excessive use of effects... it was a shoegaze phase. This is just clean guitars and a guitar lead part
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8838613/Acoustic:Solo 3.mp3
This clip exhibits this, but don't mind the excessive use of effects... it was a shoegaze phase. This is just clean guitars and a guitar lead part
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8838613/Acoustic:Solo 3.mp3
Alot of my cleans aren't really busy parts and have alot of space, so I like to use effects ala Tesseract even though it's nowhere near the same type of stuff. Very pristine, glassy tones are my faves. hp/lp and a dip around the mids, slight compression, some mild chorus, splash on delay and reverb and it's done. I like passive neck pups for the guitar, PAF pro was a long time one I used but lately i've been wanting to try out a SD '59 and see if it suits me more.
That sounds really great man, I'm loving that tone. May I ask what the entire chain for this was?
Sounds really great. Would be awesome if you give a more detailed description as to what you did with the compression etc.
thanks guys, glad you like it! 
chain is, EMG 60 neck pickup into axe-fx (i can upload the preset if desired)
then i compressed it with ratio at full and fast attack and release.
then i cut out bass frequencies and some annoying frequencies at
2000hz and some mud at 800. i think its important to EQ after the
compression as the compressor may add back some frequencies
that were cut out before, at least i think it's something like that
it seems to work with any clean tone so you do not have to own an axe fx,
i'm sure you can do it with any ampsim. i sometimes use the DI signal and just
put an IR on it to smothen it out a bit, just use new strings!
if i have two different parts i always add some light delay to one of the parts
this helps to seperate the two tracks. without delay it always sounds a bit too "centered"
Example
cheers
S.
chain is, EMG 60 neck pickup into axe-fx (i can upload the preset if desired)
then i compressed it with ratio at full and fast attack and release.
then i cut out bass frequencies and some annoying frequencies at
2000hz and some mud at 800. i think its important to EQ after the
compression as the compressor may add back some frequencies
that were cut out before, at least i think it's something like that
it seems to work with any clean tone so you do not have to own an axe fx,
i'm sure you can do it with any ampsim. i sometimes use the DI signal and just
put an IR on it to smothen it out a bit, just use new strings!
if i have two different parts i always add some light delay to one of the parts
this helps to seperate the two tracks. without delay it always sounds a bit too "centered"
Example
cheers
S.
I like to compress the shit out of it and be a lot less aggressive with the high pass filter than normally. Depending, sometimes multi banding the low end (250 Hz and under), and then boosting it a little is nice.
But compress compress compress compress! Play around with attack and release times too. Definitely give it a nice reverb though. It adds a more 3D feel to clean guitars.
But compress compress compress compress! Play around with attack and release times too. Definitely give it a nice reverb though. It adds a more 3D feel to clean guitars.
thanks guys, glad you like it!
chain is, EMG 60 neck pickup into axe-fx (i can upload the preset if desired)
then i compressed it with ratio at full and fast attack and release.
then i cut out bass frequencies and some annoying frequencies at
2000hz and some mud at 800. i think its important to EQ after the
compression as the compressor may add back some frequencies
that were cut out before, at least i think it's something like that
it seems to work with any clean tone so you do not have to own an axe fx,
i'm sure you can do it with any ampsim. i sometimes use the DI signal and just
put an IR on it to smothen it out a bit, just use new strings!
if i have two different parts i always add some light delay to one of the parts
this helps to seperate the two tracks. without delay it always sounds a bit too "centered"
Example
cheers
S.
Thanks for sharing man, it sounds really good
I'd EQ before compressing tho. For me it sounds more logical to shape the sound, cut some unwanted frequencies first, then compress and correct the EQ if needed. It's just my opinion and I think there are exceptions of course but I tried both ways and this one gives better results than the other in many cases.
