How To Fit Guitars In A Mix 

Guitars have always been my biggest mix issue, ironic given I'm a guitarist before anything else instrument-wise. The diagnosis method is a great idea, thank you for posting JST :)

This is one awesome video! 7 mins of pure awesomeness! How this guy only has 60k subs and Glenn flicker has half a million is beyond me...

I've been producing, mixing, and mastering my own music such as covers and originals for a few year now and I love how simplistic and to the point your tutorial was. You touched on some things that most RU-vid creators don't necessarily pin point, and for that, I'm very appreciative of your video. Thank you!

I use a multiband compressor for my rythm metal guitars where I cut somewhere between 100 - 200 hz, especially on palm muted parts. Much like you did with the side chained snare. It´s a trick I learned from Andy Sneap and it has helped ALOT.

This is a brilliant video. You guys continue to lay out extremely easy to follow, impressive tutorials that cut right to the point. I've watched many, many videos from tons of different channels and you guys kill it in a short time, every time. Thank you! 😎🎸🤘

This video was a god send. I swear trying to figure out how to get a good metal tone through amp sims and then mixing them properly feels like its one of the most difficult things to find relevant or quality information on. Thank you so much for this. It's overwhelming trying to figure this stuff out sometimes.

You have talent not only in mixing but actually teaching these skills. Thanks for the video

Man not only your video is useful, the editing skills you have are incredible. you deserve a lot!!!!! Good luck

I always refer back to this video when doing a mix. Its a great refresher.

Idk why I never bothered to watch these until now. all your videos helped me clean up my mix SO much. Lol thanks for all the tips and tricks.

When i was younger, i wanted the raw black metal tone, but when i started mixing them, i realized I needed mids to actually sound good. Changed my whole perspective on tone lmao. Now a days i turn the bass frequency down and let the bass guitar do the heavy lifting in the bottom end

This is an incredible videro. Not a lot of stuff like this being made any more on YT, by anyone really. It may feel like covering the same ground and be repetitive to the creator, to cover the same topic multiple times - however, every source is different and wisdom comes from seeing workflow theory in action over and over again. I wouldnt complain if yall made more videos like this and I think they would do really well right now since no one else is doing it anymore

this is the best video I've seen about mixing guitars, cheers dude ur a legend, subbed!!

You gave me a how lot more insight on mixing more than just the guitar, keep up the work man.

This was great! Just started to record music like this and it was instantly clear that mixing the guitar was going to be a bit different. This was exactly what I needed.

This is a very concise presentation of how to approach an otherwise very complicated task. You've done a great job of explaining and demonstrating this. I know that this will be a big help moving forward . Thank you!

This channel seriously deserves more subscribers.

I’m definitely guilty of using too much gain, something I’ve changed these last few months. Less gain makes the guitars sit better pretty much every time.

This solved my issue with amp sims. The tip about gain and presence being tied really set the stage for my tone to come out less annoying. I also didnt realize how much I was cutting out of my high and low end on guitar (way too much). gotta give thanks to your page and frightbox, you two are the only pages that helped me take steps forward in mixing. thank you a lot

Really dig the song on this video. Sounds In Flamesque

I literally said the words "this is amazing" while watching. Thank you so much!

Awesome. No BS. Just quality contents!

DUDE.... Thanks for the knowledge. I'm a noob and these pieces make so much sense.

Literally the best resource on the internet. I have never had anything effect my mixes so immensely as you guys.

Thank you for these videos, they're absolute gold 🙏

The Best mix hints ive ever seen

These tips are very clearly explained and showed and boosted up my mix results and knowledge. Totally helpful.

Thank you so much Joey Sturgis! I will hopefully work with you one day on a sick metal track! 😃

Dude this is seriously one of the best videos I’ve ever seen about this topic. Straight to point, gives actionable advice, and uses amp sims.

This was exactly what I needed

man this was so helpful! wish i could've seen this earlier to avoid my headaches with mixing the guitars 😭😭

I like how concise and simply explained the video. Everything is 🤘🤘

Not blaming but in the final mix i heard some harsh peak frecuencies around 6k - 10k, maybe is a higher frequence but I heard this "Hshhhhhhh" constant sound in the guitars

great tip to change sound instead of tweaking, thanks;)

Lots of great info, and shown very quickly, great job!

Best video I’ve seen on guitar mixing. Thank you! I was making all of these mistakes without realizing it.

Thank you for this straight to the point amazing

I truly appreciate this. Whether its a good thing or a bad thing, this is more helpful that alot of the NTM fast tracks

Make more videos like this! Citing specific frequency ranges is super helpful.

Nice tricks as always!!! Thank you Joey!!!!

I hope these tips would work really well with orchestral metal I'm mixing. It's hella hard to get the guitars to be heard when the full orchestra is playing.

I will admit it I have never once tried side chaining guitar to duck with the snare. Bass with kick yes, but I’ve never done it with guitar whatsoever. Need to experiment with that

It's so hard not to dial a decent tone with the technology that we have nowadays thanks to amazing music guys like JST, STL Tones Neural, IK Multimedia, Positive Grid, etc.

Great! I thought im crazy when sidechaining the guitars with the snare; good to see im not the only one. :)

Really satisfying to see this monster at work!

Joey, this video was amazing. I actually understood how the frequencies cover each other and how to fix it. Thank you.

very good video, didnt realise you only had 60k subs, deserve more

This was so helpful and brilliantly edited. Thank you!

The best straight-forward video I've seen that actually tie all the tracks together in one simple summary.

I loved this video more than I can say

5:56 I'm pretty sure the images are swapped, anyway very useful video

This was a really cool trick, particularly ducking the 2k range to let the bass pop through. Always wondered why I could never get good bass definition to come through

Thanks for the tips!

Gold!👌🤘

Like this? I love this video! Most videos I come across, Are about Beats and Hiphop. You earned a sub man.

I'm just getting done with my first full year of sound engineering and this was BY FAR one of the best vids for fitting into mix. Thank you for the tandem mention of pres and gain. It changed my entire perspective going forward!

Awesome video! Thank you!

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Great video. Usually recording the full tone from my Kemper, but I might have to look into splitting out before the cab, to have the option to use an IR. Or maybe I just need to get that Jason Suecof I have been eyeing...

Really helpful! Thanks man 👊🏻😁

Killswitch Engage!! Great video Joey!!!

What DAW is he using in this video? Looks beautiful 🥳

I'm starting to record guitar cover on my daw and basically I'm separating the original track in stems and i'm replacing the original guitar with mine. Thanks, i think this will help me make my guitar stand out against the original instruments.

As always.... thanks JST!!!

Thanks!, great video!

YES I am in that rabbit hole as I type! sooo frustrated!

1:50 presence is higher frequency 2:10 treble knob fukd by gud %

This guy made my whole childhood

Well said from the King himself

Good tutorial, but i have to say impulse responses and amp sims is fitting bmw m steering wheel on a Lada. It's still Lada. But your point on having right sound is good one. I've spent days on end trying to polish a turd and i bet i'm not the only one..

Still searching for that beautiful Reaper theme

I would love a video on how to mix extended range guitars (especially 8 strings...). Like, how can you get the clarity yet masivesness of meshuggah?

Me I use fabfiltrer q3 with eq match with guitar isolated pro sound after and I cut often the midrange, I didn't know the trick of snare on sidechain because for me I didn't think of an issue

I love this, though I think you switched the two eqs (bass / Drum eqs) Other than that, super helpful video!

why do you side chain the snare fundamental to the guitar eq when the guitars are hard panned L/R and snare is in the center? arent they already not overlapping?

Excelent! So useful! But why the sound of the example at 1:18 sounds so much compact and cleaner than the rest of the examples which is full of "fried potato" (FSSSSSS) sound? Is it some IR in particular or do you have it procesed with another plugins? I ask cause my guitars sounds like the other parts and I want them to sound like in 1:18.

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Mate, Idk how to formulate a question... You do such great videos with all plugins and stuff. How do you make it look so beautiful? I mean is there any tutorial on how to screen record Reaper or other DAWs?

Amazimg video ! Thx !

I worked really hard on my guitar tones. I used some of my favorite songs and players as models and dialed in the tone I like for both gigging and recording. For me roll off anything under 100hz, cut at 200-240hz as needed to remove boxyness, boost 1k, 2k and 5k as needed to make it sizzle! Boosting at 3db increments to start then smaller adjustments to fine tune. Also, you have to EQ it for tracking then again in the mix. My effects are all post so there's loads of flexibility to edit as needed.

This video seems useful

it`s all coo but I still don`t know how loud the guitar should be in relation to others. And that trick with sidechaining. I already use Andy Sneap trick in that area, so how do I pair both

I sometimes start Luke a gig mix ..set bas and drums ..add guitar add singer ...but I hearing you ..also I'd like to ask is recording ...instead of recording just 1 track in guitar is it better to record 2 and split them left and right. I recently tried 3 .1 full left 1 full right 1 stereo left and right ...and I tried to do the same eith my bass but 50 50 ..instead of full left and right ..then singing down stereo left and right 2 tracks ..I noticed lots of space and sepererate tracks ..I put the guitar as 3 tracks to try and find that punch through the middle with bass and drums ,..remember I split the bass only 50 50 ..I just want to do this ..I write and enjoy mixing ..and I don't think I'm useless I just need to no more ..I notice there's a lot in sound ..and not over loading so everything can fit in its place ..my mix is far from what I want to do ..frustrating yet ok because it gives me something to look forward to .....anyhow thank you for something more to think about ..lol..and that technique of recording I'm trying is that a good road to go down ??

I feel like one thing is missing: Widening! Just a little bit can drastically improve your mix.

Good Stuff \m/

It's funny that I play guitar for 12 years and record stuff for like 8 years or so and the guitars are still the biggest challenge for me. Something's always off and there are so many tones and ways to achieve those tones that it's pretty tedious for me

At 6 min the pro Q plugs are the wrong way round. All the knowledge is *Chefs kiss*

Im a new fan here

I use protools. It can be hard to find the right balance. If you don’t use too much distortion it can be easier. I think bass is the easiest with direct plug in as it’s so clean. I play with double tracking as well. Check my patented fretboard invention 🎶🎸 that thing takes skill to record to mask any buzzy or off tones pulling strings over fretcorner into groove channels. However when you get it right it sounds epic.

Never mind the mix, how do I fit them all in mt bedroom?

Also dont forget to notch out 4kHz 😂

the answer to the first question is they need to be panned? Im still learning and this is my guess.

Can someone tell me the name of the software he’s using here please ?

What’s the name of the song? Been listening to it in a quite a few videos here and it’s driving me crazy that I don’t know the name haha

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I'm working on a song that's incredibly dynamic and has increasingly more and more instruments as time passes on. And it's pretty difficult to make the guitars sit right

All of those rules have been broken by people who sold millions of records. I was just listening to my best of Motorhead CD, and they did everything wrong!

Hi , nice vidéo! You did not talk about limiting guitar Buss. ( Joey IS doing this on Ntm CNCC session) when I try to do it myself it's often kiling my guitar sound . I can't understand why.

My biggest problem with me mixing guitars, is when I use emulated amps (Like amplitube), the highs sound bad, and the guitars sound not in your face like they’re supposed to. And no matter what I could do it never sounded professional.

hello I’m recording with a katana boss which is plugged into my Interface which is plugged into my guitar. So what amp settings should i use to get a clear and crispy sound and also i record in fl studio is this possible or has this any effects on the outcome? would be happy if someone could answer! and great video👍🏻