Many modern guitar tones lack a certain heaviness because a lot of guitar players purge everything below 100-150 hz, which produces a thin sound I think. These lesson videos are very easy to follow, super informative and very appreciated. Can't wait to see sylosis live this friday, just bought the ticket!
It's a common thing I've noticed that the second harmonic of a fundamental creates a lot of 'mud'. Sounds like this is chugging mostly on a C where the fundamental is going to be at 65.41Hz so the second harmonic will be at double the frequency at 130.82Hz where you found the mud here. Seems to apply to Bass, Kick, snare. Being aware of where the fundamental of each instrument is has made EQing so much easier for me.
Hey Josh just letting you know that when you switch to your PC/Cubase view there's a very piercing and uncomfortable resonance at like 18-20k that sounds like electricity when charging a phone, thought you'd want to know. Sick content as always aside from that.
Thank you so much Josh! This is a golden mine of information! Thank you so much for everything you do! I really love learning from you how to mix metal guitars.
Man I learned so much from you about guitars and drums, these vids are really good. Can you do something about vocals too? Sylosis vocals actually sound really good, I would like to know your general approach about mixing vocals
These videos are a goldmine Josh. Is there any chance you can do these types of videos, but like, away from the PC?
Like getting great tones on an actual amp, how you use your boosts, eq pedals, how you maintain picking hand speed/accuracy, how you practice, how you used a metronome and scales to get better, etc etc.
I should be using a computer and recording at this point, but I'm still trying to become a better player and really dial in my actual amp tone and what not.
I pretty much watch these videos as a fan but have no idea what you're doing half the time, lol.
I generally work with much less distorted guitar tones than these and this approach still really helps to get rid of that stringy sounding band that stops the guitars and bass working together. 👍
Funny, I had the same impression considering the low end (below 100hz), that keeping it in could sound better in a mix. But I didn’t dare to trust my ears (as a metalcore mixing-noob), because everyone was saying that the low cut should be all the way to like 80hz-ish (and then ofc multibanding the p.m.s around 100hz). Thanks for all the tips!