07-06-2017, 08:19 PM
Hmm... I'm guessing you're trying build a bigger guitar sound than the source tracks allow. You can make a wall type sound of main guitars, but I'd suggest you first try to match the tone colour of separate mics individually. The first mic was quite sharp and the second darker, so make them sound more similar with each other with eq. Slow frequency analyzer will help, but use ears for final judgement. Then pan them wide and listen to the sound, and then listen to them mono summed. Switch back and forth. Although the volume will drop when monoed, the sound colour shouldn't change too much. In other words, try to minimize the difference between stereo and mono sound to as small as possible. When you think it's good enough, drive them through a stereo bus and fit them with the rest of the mix with adjusting level and broader stereo eq on the bus. I don't think that mix should be 100% mono compatible, not by a long shot, but on the latest version the stereo image still feels a bit over-wide. It might be also the drum overheads or room contributing to this, so you could experiment also with them using similar approach. A good tactic is muting individidual elements of the mix in turn, and listen which element you think clearly makes the mix worse. There's always one, at least when I'm mixing. ^_^ Anyways, I think the groove and bang factor is right with your mix and if you're happy with the stereo image then go with it.