Best Way To Mix Rock & Metal Distorted Guitars | 3 Secrets You Need To Know

I'd love a video on guitar tone that's thick and not in your face. How do you fill the space then?

This is fire. ProbBly the best video on mixong metal ive found. Thanks brother

Thank you! This was so helpful ❤

That's explains what metallica did with jason😂😂

Excellent video! Thank you! I really love your approach of combining sonically the bass and guitar. Clear and concise.

Yup

One of the major misconceptions about recording guitar is the guitar tracks sound like dialed in sound on the amp. Guitarists dialing in their amps to sound like a record is a crock. As you pointed out, you need DAW skills to make the guitars sound great in the mix, versus dialing in the amp and that's all.
Second. Maybe you have covered this, but sometimes you don't need all that distortion on an amp to make it sound great in a recording. Less distortion and more definition giving you actually more to work with.

Thank you excellent video!

This is gold for me, thank you very much!!

Such great tips. Thoughts on ducking guitars (even modestly) for the vocals?

Nice tips. What are your thoughts about overusing high pass filters on to many tracks (which can introduce phase issues)?

Legend! I had 4 bass tracks almost out of instinct but I didn't sculpt them like this at all. My guitars now sound EVIL!

ur a f in legend :))

damn brother your badass

I feel like I need to write this shit down where I can always see it because every time I hear this I’m always like “ohhh yeah” 😅

So, like:

1. *EQing the guitar correctly:* Instead of soloing the guitar, he suggests listening to the whole mix and cutting frequencies that interfere with vocals or other important elements.

2. *Creating a powerful low end:* He recommends focusing on the bass to provide a full low end and using sidechain compression to prevent guitars from masking the snare.

3. *Dynamically removing masking frequencies:* Bobby demonstrates sidechain compression on guitars triggered by the snare drum to ensure that the snare's impact isn't compromised by the guitars.

Great man really helpfull.

I really. Like the. Information that you've. Presented in this video. However, do you. Have to pause dramatically. Every three words?

This, Sir, is pure Gold! Thank you for sharing expertise

I really don't like the guitar in solo or in the mix 😕 sounds like the guitars are coming from someone listening in another room.

Just stumbled across this channel and I wanted to reach out to express my gratitude for such a detailed and simple to understand explanation of how to mix Metal Guitars. I've really been struggling to get my guitars to sit in a mix, basically I've been falling into the trap of working on isolated guitars to get a tone I'm happy with, only to find out they sound crap in the mix. I then start messing with the drums and bass to try and make them work!... this explanation makes total sense and I'm now excited to revisit some mixes with this advise in mind. Thanks and keep up the great work

Sidechain relating to the snare. Definitely awesome.

Thanx Dax!

Thank you

IT'S ALWAYS 3K - i've never found and IR where 3k has not been annoying. great work, been producing for years but i constantly like to see other peoples perspectives, always learning!

By far one of the best “secret” videos that actually told secrets in a quick and succinct way. Thank you!

This video has helped me understand everything way more! At first I came looking for videos like this Becuase I didn’t have the slightest idea on where to even star mixing the guitars. Thanks!

This tutorial is pure gold, giving the tools and some brief theory behind choices instead of the yt approach "just copy this to sound metal" which doesn't usually work.

Dynamic EQ, dynamic volume (automation) may be added as well.

Presenter asks, here we have 170 tracks; what can we do, to make the guitars fit. I respectfully suggest, deleting about 150 of the tracks . Serious. It is the layering that passes the point of making things fuller, and gets to the zone of making things CLOUDIER. Edit to the essential. There is so much overkill.

Even though I kinda knew most of this, it was actually very very useful information to be told/taught again. Sometimes you just.. idk.. forget things when mixing because there's so much stuff going on.
So thank you!
Thank you for the reminder!

thank you so much! such good tips!

im confused tho... your adding all these bass tracks to compliment the guitar but was there no bass guitar in the track already? seems weird

Well, yeah. Mix each instrument (guitar or whatever) in context. Everything else is stupid. One should figure that out very quickly. Also, if you are really heavily EQing, think about rerecording / reamping with a more fitting sound. Concerning guitar, if you listen to that alone, yep, something will be missing. But in the full mix, that's where you want everything to sit right.

I am a bit puzzled, because if you carve out the guitars the way you did so that the vocal is not masked, well the guitar will sounds bad when the singer is not singing. I think you should also have used side chain for that no ?

Are you the little brother of Joe Satriani ? :)

This is witchcraft, you're doing witchcraft.

Amazing work. Thanks dude.

So much of this I wish I'd heard a long time ago! And, so much of this I thought of trying, but didn't have the balls! So many producers don't show what people need to hear as though they're gate keeping? Thank you for creating such a solid resource!

Wish I watched this video earlier. I miraculously have the same bass EQ curve but it took me forever. Great channel.

that masking eq tip is great. And sidechaining is like magic.

man i was just about to finish a mix but then i stumbled on this video. thank you so much - that bass filtering technique to bring forth the gutiars was helping a LOT

I like when you say bedroom producers...😜
This kind of music i was last time listening in the 90s...then i cut my hair off...😁

This kind of track is why I feel rock has lost its soul. Metal most of all. Everybody has the mindset of Axl Rose making November Rain in the box basically. What is so wrong with 10-20 tracks at most? What I hear in the finished production of all modern music does not warrant so much shit. Truthfully it is mostly layers of crap to help a sub par singer fake it and a drummer sound like his 10 million other comrades in trigger ideology.

Wow i actually understand this tutorial lol thanks

Ray: "Find a spot where we cant understand the vocals anymore".
Me: YES

just found your channel , impressed with your ideas , i will check out more of your videos...

This was the best mixing lesson I've seen in years. Thank you

that was sick. thanks!