From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
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Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1
Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar
- [Voiceover] Acoustic rhythm guitars oftentimes drive a song as hard as the drums, but they also can take up too much space in a mix if they're left wide open, so naturally, because they compromise practically the entire frequency spectrum, you have to pay attention to how much space they do take up. Let's figure out how we treat acoustic guitars when they're an important yet small part of a larger piece, here we go. (upbeat rock music) Let's go back to the top, you'll see there's quite a lot of ride automation here on the acoustic guitar's aux input. I'll show you the quiet passage, and first thing I wanna talk about is the panning spectrum. The stereo field is important to me when it comes to multiple acoustic guitars, and this one was a little challenging because there's four main parts, and they kind of trade off playing in tacit passages, and I wanted to pay attention to how the panning came off all the way though the song. So it starts out here with these two little harmonics…
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Understanding signal processing order8m 4s
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Kick drum processing techniques5m 51s
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Snare drum processing7m 44s
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Tom toms and cymbals processing8m 56s
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Drum room mics processing7m 47s
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Lead vocal processing techniques12m 9s
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Background vocal processing techniques7m
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Gain processing using EQ and dynamics6m 40s
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Treating the bass guitar8m 19s
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Treating synth bass sounds7m 46s
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Making electric guitars sing with compression, EQ, and reverb11m 43s
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Placing acoustic grand piano in the mix6m 23s
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Carefully crafting the keyboards8m 41s
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Choosing the right EQ for the acoustic guitar9m 50s
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Taming and then featuring percussion7m 51s
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Mixing real and sampled strings13m 1s
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Treating real live brass8m 37s
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Parallel compression techniques7m 58s
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