3 tips for mixing distorted guitars

3 tips for mixing distorted guitars
#mixing #guitars

[@BuckoBean29]

Walking Contraction is a nice choice.

[@scarv7544]

Do you have any tips particularly with high drive on amp sims? I feel like sims can get muddy quite quickly with drive for me compared to real amps

[@micnixproductions]

Try using less gain, you can often get a cleaner result without losing the aggressive sound

[@danizha212]

Nice video. One question: how can you avoid hard panned guitars from disappearing in mono?

[@micnixproductions]

If there are no phase issues, they certainly should not disappear. Testing mono compatibility is always an important step during mixing.

[@danizha212]

@@micnixproductions Thanks for replying. And yeah, the thing is that in my case there's always some phase cancelling between them.. even if I change the amp settings or the amp itself on one of the guitars. What's your technique or approach on fixing that?

[@zimou3040]

​@@danizha212try to get rid of the odd or even frequencies for one, or do multiple recordings with different settings

[@JakeStrange66]

Goddamn is there anything about this topic that doesn't deal with a bunch of numbers & for people who don't record on computers????

[@micnixproductions]

The only numbers mentioned are the high & low pass filter points. All of these tips are applicable no matter which method you are recording with.

[@JakeStrange66]

@@micnixproductions correct. But I'm not good with numbers regardless & I've never taken time to actually learn what they all mean on eq knobs. I always judged by ear. & Long story short, I believe some of the older equipment I was using before might need some internal parts, like capacitors, etc, replaced because of their age. Things that used to sound great no longer sounded good anymore no matter what I tried. & I'm not confident enough to work on it myself even though I've done the same kind of work on stereo receivers in the past. So I recently was finally able to get a few brand new things & actually wanna try to learn what I should have learned years & years ago. I also don't use a DAW. The only thing I ever used one for is to make a stereo mix of my final mixdown so it could be burned to CD or uploaded online. Literally everything else is all done the old fashioned way, so to speak. Trying to find anything that explains it thoroughly & easy to understand has been pretty hard to find so far.

[@theindianboys213]

App Name?

[@micnixproductions]

Cubase

[@LovelyClock-kf4lc]

I like your hair

[@micnixproductions]

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[@eddietasker9110]

How did you get that distorted tone?

[@micnixproductions]

That was just my old Line 6 Pod on the black panel setting with drive up all the way

[@ripperthecrooks6428]

Amp sims or real amps??

[@micnixproductions]

Amp sims

[@ripperthecrooks6428]

I have trouble , with clealiness of the distortion like every little scratch sound the guitar makes is really obvious , very hard for those 80s tones and more complex riffs

[@Guitarest17]

Use just enough gain to get the sound you need. It’s very easy to use way too much which muddies up the tone and increases the noise. Add in a noise gate after you tweak the right amount of gain and you’ll have tighter and cleaner tone. I’d recommend having the noise gate as one of the first things in your chain.

[@micnixproductions]

80's tones often have a rolled off top-end also, reducing some of those harsher tones and less gain than you might think