Electric Guitar Mixing

This meant to be a guideline to help you get started of mixing an electric guitar. But you should remember that there are no "one preset solution" for everything when doing mixing. So, keep practice...

• Compression, attack 10 - 50 ms, release 0.3 s, ratio 4:1 and 12:1
• Roll off below 80 Hz to remove rumble
• Little boost 120 - 200 Hz to fatten up
• Cut 200 - 300 Hz, depending on the song and sound
• Boosting around 2 - 3 kHz to add some edge / byte to the sound or cut for transparancy
• Make hole / cut 3 - 4 Hz (human voice dominant frequency)
• Boosting around 5 - 6 kHz to add presence
• Roll off gently starts from 6 kHz above
• Boosting around 8 - 12 kHz to add brightness
• Reverb, plate / room decay 1.5 - 4 s, pre-delay 30 - 60 ms

Cutting is better than boosting, try to cut more often than boost. For example if you want to boost frequency around 150 Hz, you should try to cut 200 - 300 Hz first.

Hopefully helpfull...

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