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How to Mix Epic Metal Guitar Solos and Leads
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2018
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Are you mixing heavy music with epic guitar solos and leads? This video walks through my simple strategy for getting lead guitars to stand out in the mix and have an epic, soaring quality.
I use this exact same approach to leads & solos on almost every song I mix. This video demonstrates the techniques in two different songs.
Easy way to get that wide chorusing effect on guitar: Get the free Mercuriall chorus plugin and set depth to max, speed to min and mix to 9 o'clock. Boom, done.
Thanks for this
Double tracking with pretty similar takes can really have an interesting sound for riffs. For metal I have recently really focused on trying to get riffs and chords together as a single guitar play myself weather is be with hybrid picking or just picking. I did it without thinking about doing it and I wanted to work on it more which is pretty cool. Having 2 guitar parts can be good for later if you are with a band and the other guutar player likes what you played and can play it. If I were to play one of my recently made songs live, having a backing track including parts for where I added solo overtop or having some rythm parts on a backing track is a good way to play solo I think. I believe that having backing tracks for some things is ok.
I was gonna say why not just use a chorus plug in? Thanks for answering that
Excellent teaching Jordan! Mixing a song now with trap drums and heavy rock guitars and could not get the guitars to sound wide and thick like I thought they should..subscribed and learned from some other videos you have and captured a sound a really thing is great!! New follower indeed brutha..thanx so much for the help...blessings!
I almost always use an L1 on vocals and guitars since I saw your video using it on vocals a while back! Using it sparingly towards the end of my processing chain makes that little bit of difference that goes a long way. Your EQ checklist also helped a ton on my mixes.
Working on some solos this week! Will try this out🤘
Love your mixes dude! I own a few pysical copies, and have heard the bands live nunmerous times. Love your work, and your content o here is great and showing me alot!
I'm learning a lot from you my friend, thank you and God bless you brother!
Fantastic! Loved it.
Brilliant lesson mate!
Thanks a lot for the tipps..awesome harmonized Solo at 9:05..love it!
That was awesome. Thanks!
Nice vid, these are some great examples dude
Thank you! it really help me
Dude... you really deserve more subscribers! Love your workflow.
Very helpful advice! Subscribed!
Very useful videos man! Applied for real music)
I watch and then open my project and work with sound, so simply way)
Wow. This is great
amazing guitar sound dude
I figured you would pan the guitars, but doubling each one sounds bad ass! I’m going to try this on my next mix.
Pure gold! Thank so much for the sneak peak.
great video thx
"Let's check it out with no plugins and no effects"
*plays source track dripping w/ echo*
Probably raking across the strings. Great vid!!
Lead sounds phenomenal bro
Thank you.
Epic upload
That was a huge help. I applied your technical stuff with eq then another video using graphic eq'ing. Finally got that 80s sizzle-pop chessy ballad lead sounding fresh. Thanks man!
THANKS BRO
Well, that was a kick ass solo, must admit!
Mandroid is one of my favorite bands, I've been watching your channel for years and had no idea you had mixed them! Sick video!!
great guys!
Love Mandroid Echostar, awesome seeing them here! What's your approach to mixing the rhythm guitars during the solos? I struggle to keep them sounding big without clashing with the leads
Really nice tutorial. Not many youtubers are giving away tutorials for solos. I really wish you would make a tutorial on how you approach it on a super brutal mix. Would you do the same thing but more aggressive on the L1? Would go as far as using a transient designer to give a little bit of pick attack? I always struggle with mixing lead on a 240bpm mix with tremolo picking and fast heel toes kicks.
More 1-2k boost and possibly more 5k+. Possibly slightly more compression or limiting but not much different that this
@@hardcoremusicstudio great tutorial. Always helps that the source is really good as well so you're not trying to polish a turd 😂. That first example sounded pretty close before processing I must say. So it's that cumulative effect of just spacing it out and getting it up above the rhythm tracks and so on. Gentle nudges towards the final product. Great video as always.
I love Mandroid Echostar
I'm new to mixing and I have a question for anyone who wants to answer: isn't the same process to duplicate the lead track and sligtly pan them Left-right (20%) and adding a different delay to each track? This is what I usually do. I'd just like to know if it's basically the same thing but done manually.
Ok now THIS is EPIC
Everybody talks about EQ to make lead guitar pop in a mix, but usually the guitar sounds already amazing before the mix. I wish somebody touched ok how to get the guitar sound so finished before doing the mixing/EQing
That harmonozier is covering the tone
One of the things I'm curious about and I've not really seen discussed is when recording / mixing guitar solos, is it typical to have delay applied to the incoming signal or will it get recorded dry and have the delays applied afterwards? If it's on the incoming signal, would you still use this widening trick on the track?
Why the volume automation rather than compressor?
I wish you would discuss the order of the effects in the signal chain. What comes before what?
From what it sounds like, he's got the chorus first before the delay, which makes sense.
Amazing video. How did you pan the double Leads at the end? Slightly L/R or centered?
Based on some of his other vids, probably full l/r
Do you know what amp and mic they used to record the solo?
Probably a very basic question, but do you reduce the levels/volume of the other backing stuff (esp the rhythm guitar) during the solo. Or does the solo effectively raise the volume of the entire track. Thanks for the video!
@Liam Thanks. Been out of it, so not figured it out yet. So, from what you are saying - if the volume of the backing stuff is x before the solo, we drop it to x-1 during the solo and once the solo is over bring it back to x?
Wouldn't be better (or easier) to use a compresor instead of automating the solo volume? This is a doubt I have since automation is a such surgical process that the result may be similar. Thanks
Compression only gets ya about 90 percent there automation helps for certain spots depends on the song but ya you would think the compressor would do all the work but ya gotta help it out a little
How do you bypass the midrange @ 2:50?
thanks for the email
Hey my metal next generation friend. I was wondering why automate volume after the limiter. Isn't just the limiter enough. Or why not use a comp before the limiter. I'm tired of automating and a junkie or sucker for it. I just wonder why you didn't explain it a little more
Noob question, but why not record the solo in stereo
when you add the delay on each side, aren’t you concerned that the solo timing is thrown off?
Nope, it's subtle in the mix and just used to add width and space. As a listener you don't really notice the echoes, it just sounds nice. Also with synced delays like this (quarter note, eighth, etc) they tend to blend into the mix and don't throw off timing.
What song is this ??
Do you usually leave the lead guitar and lead guitar harmonies panned center?
Just leave them panned center unless you really want some other effect
Nice. Do you recall what amp they were using on this?
I believe it was an Axe FX. Possibly a 5150... can't recall!
@@hardcoremusicstudio Modelers are going mainstream and pretty quickly. I think the lead guitarist of Avenged Sevenfold even moved to Axe FX.
I have a theory, but please feel free to poke as many holes as you like. Instead of adding more mids to a lead guitar solo, what if once you've identified the mids you want enhanced, subtract them from the rhythm guitars instead of adding more? That way it's creating more space, rather than fighting existing frequencies.
You mean dynamic eq with side chained on it ? Mix shouldnt be bound by any rules , do what sounds good that's the way
Why are you fx sends 100% wet is it always like this?
Can someone help me? I can’t mix guitars for shit. I think the problem is I’m using plugins for amps. The tracks sound good on their own but when they mix they overlap and sound like shit.
Still need help?
@@Ibbygaby I got an axe fx 3 now. Needless to say it’s a lot easier. But I could still use some better impulse responses 🥸
You really should use reverb cappy it sounds dryer than a popcorn fart
I dunno . . . .Seems to me that making the level of every note exactly the same obliterates any playing nuance there might have been, but possibly there wasn't much to begin with. That's fairly typical of metal, but rock solos (think Garcia, Harrison, Clapton, Knopfler, etc.), so much of the guitar solos are right hand technique varying the attack and the force. Seems to me that this mixing approach would lose all of it.
Sure, you should always approach it in the best way for the song. This video was about metal solos, not Clapton solos :)
Hardcore Music Studio got eem
I'm sorry, it sounds so processed. Rock, Metal, etc. should have some rawness, Balls if you will, to them. Your lessons have really helped me with my band's songs but stop taming things down! Rock is Raw,
This comment is kind of funny to me because in terms of mixing heavy music, Jordan actually is very minimalistic in his approach, and that, in my opinion, is what makes his mixes SO good. He keeps everything sounding natural, though certainly enhanced. Most modern metal production seems to go immediately to making EVERYTHING sound SO huge and larger than life. So while it does sound good, in my opinion, it really lacks the "real"-ness that Jordan's mixes are able to produce so well.
Bend Over and he Will show you Raw