Part 17 of 31 – For the longest time I always thought that to make my mix sound bigger and beefier I needed more pairs of guitars panned wide. Turns out I only needed one more, up the middle.
One Guitar Up The Center
If your mix is balanced nicely but you are needing a bit more oomph in the guitars, consider picking one part and panning it up the center. Something about layering a guitar right over the bass and kick drum does wonders for thickening the mix right up without losing clarity on the outsides.
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Great one, Graham!
I always tried to keep everything but vocals, kick and bass away from the middle but I gotta try this on my next mix.
I did too. But this has really helped a lot of mixes for me lately.
Nice graham, This pretty much improves on what I suggested to someone in the comments of your last video “EQ carving guitars”. It gets the same result with less tracks. Good job.
Yes sir!
Awesome! This is similar to Metallica’s Black Album. There were three rhythms guitars on most songs, one left, one right, and one center. Listen to the breakdown of Holier THan Thou where each one comes in one by one. HUGE
OMG, that really did the trick! Did you emphasize frequencies differently on the center guitar, or are all the guitars tracks pretty much the same EQ?
Man I love you! I really love you! Again you just saved my song!
Haha. I try.