In this week’s Audio Premium content, Björgvin Benediktsson teaches you the best techniques for mixing electric and acoustic guitar. While the screenshots for this tutorial are taken in Logic Pro, the content is not Logic-centric and is equally useful and valuable in any other DAW software.
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There are a thousand ways to mix guitars. And no, before I disappoint, this tutorial does no include one thousand mixing tips. Every guitarist has a sound and every mixing engineer has specific mixing tricks that he likes using to draw forward the true character of the guitar. At least the sound of the guitar he hears in his head.
Because a guitar sound isn’t set in stone as much as the necessity of having a great drum or vocal sound, you can get away with a lot of really radical and crazy guitar effects and sounds if you feel that it serves the purpose of the overall mix. However, there are a few things that are good to keep in mind when mixing guitars.
In the following Premium tutorial I’ll be going through a few guidelines regarding EQ and compression on both acoustic and electric guitars as well as showing you some handy mixing tricks that are always good to fall back on when you are out of ideas.
Here’s the kind of music you’ll be able to create once you harness the knowledge inside:
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Table of Contents
- Equalization
- Acoustic Guitar
- High Pass Filtering to Fit the Bass
- Equalization Guidelines
- Alternative Method
- Compressing Out the Pick Sound
- Chorused Acoustic Guitar
- Electric Guitar
- Equalization
- Compression
- Distorted Guitars
- EQ
- Compression
- Some Handy Mixing Tricks
- Enhancing Lead Lines with Delay
- Panning Clean Electric Guitars, Spreading Out the Tracks
- Double Tracking Technique
- Placing the Guitar Into a Room
- Allow Yourself Some Craziness
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