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Equalizing for 3 guitars?
- Thread starter makanudo
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Well, truth be told, I would go if I could get the old lady to go.
Take her. I took myself and grandma to see Maiden last year. She actually liked it. Not even kidding. She thought they had a great stage show and she liked Bruce's energy and singing.
Heavy stuff, tuned to D. No crazy djenty or death technical stuff. I'm not completely sure of the genre, we have slow power ballads, mid tempo stuff kinda like some pantera but not so groovy and just a couple faster ones but not 120 MPH mayhem
If you guys carefully arrange the parts, you should be good. Bands like Isis, O'brother and Mogwai do heavy 3 guitar stuff, and in the case of Isis its tuned to like B. With careful arrangement, trial and error and attention to detail, you'll be OK.
My 2 cents: treat it like you're mixing guitar tracks for a stereo recording - pan the rhythm guitars hard left and right in a stereo FOH mix. Lead guitar panned to taste but most likely centre. Keep the bass relatively thick (i.e not distorted and mid-heavy, to keep it out of the guitars' way) and have the bass (high passed at say 90-100hz) sitting just above the kick - kick and bass panned centre.
High pass filter the guitars in the FOH to leave room for the bass.
Discounting time-based effects like reverb and delay for a moment and assuming a stereo FOH mix is possible, consider the space you have in terms of panning left-centre-right and the frequencies low to high (kick, bass, guitars, vocals). That's the 'space' you have.
1,000s of recording use variations of this method.
Of course, this won't help the stage sound (or rehearsal room sound) - only sensible volume levels will do this. Good luck!
High pass filter the guitars in the FOH to leave room for the bass.
Discounting time-based effects like reverb and delay for a moment and assuming a stereo FOH mix is possible, consider the space you have in terms of panning left-centre-right and the frequencies low to high (kick, bass, guitars, vocals). That's the 'space' you have.
1,000s of recording use variations of this method.
Of course, this won't help the stage sound (or rehearsal room sound) - only sensible volume levels will do this. Good luck!
