Electric Guitar with Jeff Sandstrom

Jeff Sandstrom gives a comprehensive guide on processing electric guitar in a live mix. Focus on situations where the guitar part isn’t the primary focus of the song. Jeff covers techniques for enhancing clarity, tonality, and presence of the guitar in the context of a full band mix. The focus is on EQ adjustments, high pass filtering, and compression.

Key Points:
  • The guitar part in the mix is secondary to more interesting elements like synth parts and tracks.
  • The goal is to ensure that the guitar is audible and well-represented without overpowering other instruments.
  • High pass filtering is used to clean up the sound and remove low-end muddiness.
  • Parametric EQ adjustments are made to scoop out some mid frequencies and possibly boost upper mids for clarity.
  • Compression is applied to bring the guitar forward in the mix and enhance its presence.
  • The processed guitar is then put back in the context of the band to ensure it sits well with the other elements of the mix.

Topics

Mixing

Categories

Audio
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