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Unusual terms for basic mix moves

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Unusual terms for basic mix moves

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- [Narrator] So, this first basic mix move that I want to address with you seems like a rather simple and straight-forward one. I'm going to use electric guitars to illustrate it and, in particular, this pair of guitars here is going to be pretty handy for us to use to illustrate a couple of different ways that you can achieve the request to tuck something in. So, to me, that means lowered in volume or lowered in apparent volume. Let's give you a little bit of the track. So, now, here's one of the two guitars in question. I've been asked to tuck one of these guitars. So, let's say this was a request, they want to hear this octave part a little louder, but that was really designed to go with this part. So, obviously I could just tuck this part, lower it in volume. But that takes away so much of the chordal energy that I liked before. So, what if instead of lowering the volume altogether, we made some surgical moves on the EQ of that guitar. So, it could be that in the overall track I…

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