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Getting a good feel with timing and EQ

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Getting a good feel with timing and EQ

- [Instructor] For this video, let me read you the note I received, and it says, "acoustics in choruses and intros need to come up to give a rhythmic feel good feeling", so that note kind of comes up against the word bouncier, happier, feel good is a pretty good explanation as well, but whenever I'm looking for something to feel good, or a sound, bouncier, I look for elements in the track that subdivide it, so it could be a tambourine playing sixteenth notes, it could be whatever instrument is playing the most active and subdivided rhythm against the quarter notes. And sure enough, they picked up on it as well, I'm just looking though to see if there's any percussion in this, and there is tambourine here as well in this song, they picked up on it pretty well, by asking for more guitar. The problem was, to me the guitar was actually kind of already loud enough, and if I got it too much louder throughout it's full frequency spectrum, I was afraid it was going to step on the vocals and…

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