10-07-2014, 10:00 PM
if it's any help, I felt that the rhythm guitars were eating up a ton of room in the low mids before mixing... like a proximity boost, maybe, and continued to be too strong all the way up into 1000 Hz and further.
It's tempting to mix those guitars first because they occupy more time in the mix than anything else, but the more I think about it, the more I think they ought to be mixed in LAST, because everything else has important data spanning almost the entire frequency spectrum.
This might just be my opinion, but panning acoustic guitars hard left and right probably isn't a good idea... they'd probably disappear completely outside the sweet spot and it'd be really uncomfortable listening on headphones. Anything with really sharp transients on the sides is a little too distracting for me...
It's tempting to mix those guitars first because they occupy more time in the mix than anything else, but the more I think about it, the more I think they ought to be mixed in LAST, because everything else has important data spanning almost the entire frequency spectrum.
This might just be my opinion, but panning acoustic guitars hard left and right probably isn't a good idea... they'd probably disappear completely outside the sweet spot and it'd be really uncomfortable listening on headphones. Anything with really sharp transients on the sides is a little too distracting for me...
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!