Metal Mix Breakdown - Only Double Tracked Guitars!

[@mikaelsehlin]

Bro, your guitar tone is the best tone I've ever heard for metal. Absolutely love it and appreciate you sharing your process. Thank you Josh! -Mike, Amaranthe

[@patrik1337]

DEGRADEADDDDD

[@mikaelsehlin]

@@patrik1337 Hell yeah!! :)

[@ShockwaveTXB]

Josh's tone is the perfect blend of that classic 90s metal and today's modern tone. Chuggy thickness that's deep while being precise and clear.

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Thanks! That's the aim

[@Blackriff99]

Love all these mix videos, Josh. Really appreciate you putting the time and energy into them. Also, the new Sylosis EP absolutely rips!

[@nickplentzas5750]

Josh as a home recording musician, these mixing videos are incredibly valuable to me specially as a cubase user. I’ve been applying some of these tips and tricks to my own mixes and it’s been a game changer

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Glad to hear it!

[@YaboiMatoi]

I saw your performance at Guitar Summit last weekend. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone, Josh! Cheers!

[@Lexicoop]

Love all your early/mid 2000's style guitar tones throughout your videos. Those were the best in my opinion and I could often pick albums out from hearing the guitars. Sneap, Richardson and the more modern guys like Suecof and Lewis nail this sound and I still gravitate towards that. Thanks for providing such a wealth of knowledge on this mixing style Josh, it seems to be dying out amongst the modern stuff.

[@thefuse03101]

Awesome episode man. Can't wait for more UHD expansions.

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Thanks! Me too!

[@ahmadhaliss8347]

Hey Josh, as someone who is been trying to mix for his own music, I've been trying to find tips on EQ and how to approach it. This video single handedly helped me achieve a djent/modern metal tone that i have been trying to achieve for a while, thank you for the video, super informative and straight to the point!

[@dem0n_xiii]

The new EP is AMAZING!! The Path!! Thanks Josh! Thanks Sylosis!

[@AmoresAJ]

I've worried that I was doing some things wrong with having to notch my guitar eq alot, and ultimately having 3 eqs in total on my guitars, but this video showed me that you do almost exactly the same things I do... Thanks man. Your tones are awesome.

[@mamutcr]

Thanx to share this great stuff broth!!!

[@dougiemonday]

Major new Testament vibes - super sick

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Yup haha!

[@roycekillz2404]

Love these videos. Thanks for the Pro Tips.

[@KieranZaneRoberts]

Josh man love this kit bought it the other day and it's a winner! Was wondering if you'd be keen on giving 90's Nevermore style a crack? Would love to hear your approach!

[@brunomageste7146]

Hey josh, question for the AJFA series: I know its in the past and you’re doing your thing, but i’d like tô know what is your favorite Architects album and favorite tom riff. Btw, congrats on the EP, it bangs

[@DarkerThan00]

Now that's a fucking tone 🤘🤘🤘

[@constantinranis]

That 1K on ssl is more like around 500 , and the lower is also a bit off but not that much , for example when you boost 140 is more like 100

[@DanielAlbertson1994]

Josh love these videos and seeing your process. What are the chances of us getting to see you use MDL drums on a mix outside of your normal wheelhouse? I feel like that would be a great video showcasing not only the versatility of the drums but how certain concepts could be applied across genres.

[@pacificfurious257]

that riff giving off blood and thunder mastodon vibe

[@MANGRINDER_band_]

It's actually very very similar to The Healers by Testament.

[@justsomeone9218]

Very nice! would like to see how you master songs Josh

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

It's at the end of the video. 20:19 onwards

[@danmenez]

Killer video again! I'm just trying to figure out how can you EQ guitars so much without killing them... Your final result is always the opposite!

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Thanks! Just for reference, I have done a video on doing no EQ on guitars before kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZTInWClqpKWn80 It's definitely possible to get great results with less EQ than some of these recent videos

[@danmenez]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial Oh thanks a lot Josh, big fan here! Cheers!

[@djenk12345]

It would be very very nice if you would sell a project in reaper with your drums and guitar and bass mixet and mastered, just some standard trash riffs and solo just to better see how you do it. I know we have to buy the same apps as you to get the same sound but it would be so much easier for some with adhd as my self and not 100% good at english. And thnx for the videos, you are serious good at playing/singing and mixing and so on. :)

[@Maxischupp93]

Dude your songs are my go to reference and reason to cry at the same time 😂 welp they say shoot for the stars for a reson right? 😅

[@DavidAllenMD]

sounds good raw i use amphub as well i love it

[@YashGadwal]

Thank you so much for the mix breakdown, Josh! If I may ask, what are you using to monitor your mixes? What studio monitors / headphones do you personally recommend? Thanks again!

[@dfgvjnkjdsnbkjsbdvjkhdsb]

*middle tone?*

[@marekkrynicki3746]

Josh is this IR pack what you are using "JTM - IMPULSE RESPONSE PACK 1" ?

[@jagmetal]

Do you mix the instruments with the master bus processing already engaged? Thanks for the video.

[@Dommak89]

Do you think quad tracking rhythm guitars is not necessary anymore these days?

[@patrik1337]

Josh what's your opinion on quantizing/warping guitar tracks when recording?

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Totally against it. Sounds super weird to me and really obvious. Also, anyone who has a lot of experience with DI tracks knows the big spike you see on the waveform isn't actually the start of the note, the initial pick attack is a lot quieter and most DAWs will edit to the 'bloom' of the note and not the pick attack. I'm all for editing guitars if it gets a tight end result, but I'd rather get more takes, record in smaller sections and manually edit/comp. That's what I do when I'm tracking guitarists who are writing material above their ability level

[@GuitarAnime]

Can you share the DI's ?? I want to try if i can get that sound with my gear/plugins.

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

The DI tracks and MIDI are an exclusive for members of my Patreon community at www.patreon.com/JoshSylosisOfficial

[@ZultyBoi]

Hey Josh I signed up to your newsletter this morning but didn't receive the 10% off coupon. Is it meant to take more than a day?

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Did you check your junk mail?

[@ZultyBoi]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial Just checked my junk mail and it's not there either!

[@RoyalKingJewellery]

Hi, what you use in inserts on guitars and bass???

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Not sure what you mean? All the plugins are in the video

[@Durkhead]

Do you think it makes a difference to have one eq after another? I do the same thing and to me it sounds better, but i always feel weird about it like im doing something wrong

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

I usually end up stacking them on top of one another. Especially if I think I've got a mix in a good place and don't want to mess with where it's at. Adding a new EQ that you can remove and AB against is fine I think.

[@Jack-bv3zg]

Where can I get these impulse responses? Are they part of your STL amphub pack?

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

www.joshmiddleton.com/shop/ currently. They will all move over to MDL Tone soon

[@Jack-bv3zg]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial Thank you!

[@LOVENISH10]

Which guitar pick you use please guide me

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

Tortex .88

[@dfgvjnkjdsnbkjsbdvjkhdsb]

why can't u create presets mix ready?

[@JoshMiddletonOfficial]

I think I just assume not everyone has all the same plugins as me. And if you do, you can easily copy the settings from these vids. The Fabfilter bundle is pretty expensive as it is. Interested to hear what percentage of people have all the plugins I use which is the only way I could make a mix template worthwhile: Metric Halo Channel Strip Fabfilter Complete Bundle Waves L-1 Flatline 2 STL Tonality Josh Middleton STL AmpHub Soothe Amplified Instrument Processor Waves SSL bus comp Slate Everything Bundle Brainworx SSL 4000 E Gain Reudction Neural Darkglass + Parallax BozLabs Big Beautiful Door

[@dfgvjnkjdsnbkjsbdvjkhdsb]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial i mean STL presets. without all those eq tweakin after)

[@Blackriff99]

@@JoshMiddletonOfficial I’ve currently got everything except 4 of those (metric halo, amphub, amplified instrument processor, big beautiful door)

[@Blackriff99]

@@dfgvjnkjdsnbkjsbdvjkhdsb the post processing EQ he does in videos like this are relative to the specific drum and bass mix, in addition to any master bus processing. Unfortunately, presets don’t fully work in everyone’s mixes because people have such different setups, guitars, and playing styles. You can get “relatively safe” presets, but they still need help to work against a specific backdrop.

[@dhplayground]

@@Blackriff99100% correct, but... most people mix drums, bass then guitars, Josh tends to do guitars first, bass then drums, in his mixes, so he kind of mixes the bass and drums to fit his guitar mix.