Yeah maybe so, The rhythm section sort of came up in mastering in a weird way, I've probably listened to that song 100 times too many and I don't have good perspective on it anymore. Working on the singer track now.
What you're probably hearing is the low eq half of the guitar and the lower bone mic in the left channel. I slotted them something like 50-100 Hz apart, and I either need to attenuate the low-mid boost on both of them by a little or I need to axe the low half of the guitar signal in the left channel and leave the guitar to the right channel entirely. The low bone mic is high passed at like 100, (its a high Q attenuation though, not really a high pass filter, its a high Q attenuation that meets parity gain at 100 Hz-ish,) boosted at like 250-300 and shelfed at 700, (something like that I think?) but with automation the eq gets crazier from there, because 600-700 was were the loudest trumpet notes were bleeding through. At one point one of those bone mics is cut by like 10 dBs at 700 and boosted at 550-600 by like 6. I found all of the "brassy-ness" that I didn't like at 2.6-3K, and I mean like, obviously its a brass band, but you don't actually need to hear most of those overtones to "know they're there," so to speak, so a lot of places where that is scooped, there was a weird dopey string noise in the guitar that I cut, (and then while I was re-amping it, I had this thought of like, "if this was recorded by a master jazz guitarist, is he getting this guitar sound on purpose and I just don't know what jazz guitar is supposed to sound like? Or did they record a dry guitar sound on purpose for engineers to sculpt?") and bad string noise in the bass DI also which I cut, I wonder if turning the bass DI down would solve the problem actually, because I loved the way the bass amp sort of rumbled, so I used it for the low-low end, but then I high passed the DI somewhere around 120 and boosted a mid frequency, (something over 1K, I forget,) on it for a little definition. I don't know if I scooped low mids out of the bass DI but it might just be too much from the bass DI as well. That was all done in the mix though. It was done on headphones though, so I blame that.
With all that said, you could just shelf everything over 1.2 up a dB or 2 and that might solve the problem as well.
I feel like its hard to change without starting all over.
What you're probably hearing is the low eq half of the guitar and the lower bone mic in the left channel. I slotted them something like 50-100 Hz apart, and I either need to attenuate the low-mid boost on both of them by a little or I need to axe the low half of the guitar signal in the left channel and leave the guitar to the right channel entirely. The low bone mic is high passed at like 100, (its a high Q attenuation though, not really a high pass filter, its a high Q attenuation that meets parity gain at 100 Hz-ish,) boosted at like 250-300 and shelfed at 700, (something like that I think?) but with automation the eq gets crazier from there, because 600-700 was were the loudest trumpet notes were bleeding through. At one point one of those bone mics is cut by like 10 dBs at 700 and boosted at 550-600 by like 6. I found all of the "brassy-ness" that I didn't like at 2.6-3K, and I mean like, obviously its a brass band, but you don't actually need to hear most of those overtones to "know they're there," so to speak, so a lot of places where that is scooped, there was a weird dopey string noise in the guitar that I cut, (and then while I was re-amping it, I had this thought of like, "if this was recorded by a master jazz guitarist, is he getting this guitar sound on purpose and I just don't know what jazz guitar is supposed to sound like? Or did they record a dry guitar sound on purpose for engineers to sculpt?") and bad string noise in the bass DI also which I cut, I wonder if turning the bass DI down would solve the problem actually, because I loved the way the bass amp sort of rumbled, so I used it for the low-low end, but then I high passed the DI somewhere around 120 and boosted a mid frequency, (something over 1K, I forget,) on it for a little definition. I don't know if I scooped low mids out of the bass DI but it might just be too much from the bass DI as well. That was all done in the mix though. It was done on headphones though, so I blame that.
With all that said, you could just shelf everything over 1.2 up a dB or 2 and that might solve the problem as well.
I feel like its hard to change without starting all over.