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hey what's up Jordan here in this video
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I'm gonna show you how to clean up the
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metal guitar tone in your mix
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specifically how to get rid of the
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low-end months not adding anything
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control the high-end phys and then notch
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out the harsh frequencies in between so
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let's jump into it
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ok let's check out these guitar tracks
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in Seoul oh by the way this is a band
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called mandroid echo star
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so the first plugin in the chain when it
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comes to heavy distorted guitars like
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this for me is 99% of the time an EQ
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like this I'm using the waves are EQ you
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can use anything similar that allows you
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to do filters and allows you to do
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narrow boosts or cuts like this I'm
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going to a be this first you can hear
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the difference that this plug-in is
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making
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here how it's just really focusing and
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cleaning up the guitar tone I'm going to
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show you exactly all the steps that go
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into this one-by-one so let's turn these
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off by the way the left and right
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guitars here it's the same tone and I've
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got these plugins linked so that
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whatever I do on one it's gonna do on
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the other as well as you can see here so
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we're just gonna be it's gonna look like
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I'm only processing one side here but in
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fact I am processing both alright so
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let's dive into it I always start by
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putting a high-pass filter on which is
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cleaning up the low end so I ended up
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with that 135 here let's go back to how
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I would normally start a mix so I'll
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bring it all the way down turn it on and
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play back
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and I'm gonna sweep it up to the point
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where I feel like I'm losing too much of
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the low-end and then back it off just a
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little bit
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so somewhere around 1:30 is working for
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me in this mix there's no set rule like
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I guess as a general rule of thumb you
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could start about a hundred Hertz it's
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usually somewhere around there maybe
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from 80 to you on the high end 130 150
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so this is where we end up here so now
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listen on the a B again just to the sub
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frequencies just the low end of Rumble
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that's actually not adding anything to
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the tone that contributes to this song
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it's just eating up space on the low end
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that we should leave for the bass
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instead
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okay so that's step one now step two
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we're gonna do the same thing on the
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other end of the frequency range we're
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going to filter out some of the high end
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so same kind of idea here we're gonna
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start with a low-pass filter right up
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near the top and then sweep it back
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until we feel like we're losing too much
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of the high end energy and then stop
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right around there
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a little too dark there
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sometimes you can notice this kind
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of chord strumming parts
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you don't want to go too far on this
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because you can kind of that's where a
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lot of the energy for the guitars lives
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up there so don't you know cut way too
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far down to like the five six K range
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you know usually with somewhere around
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the nine to twelve K ranges where I end
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up having a filter here or even a bit
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lower than that around the 8 K range in
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this particular mix so even with just
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the filters here listen to how much
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cleaner this tone sends
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and you know what speakers are listening
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on that's gonna be more or less obvious
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to you
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so that's already a big improvement the
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tone is way more focused for us there's
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two more things I'm gonna do here though
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and it's going to be too narrow cuts in
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the high amid frequencies so as we're
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listening to the tone
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there's a couple areas between like 3k
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to 6 7 K that are just nasty they're
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just poking out too much so what we're
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gonna do is try to sweep find those
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frequencies and then dip them out so
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let's start basically I'm just going to
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want to grab a narrow band of your EQ
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boost it up again make sure you're using
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a pretty narrow width here start
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sweeping around
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until you find the range where it's
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really jumping out and that frequency
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that was bothering you just listening to
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the normal tone there's really jumping
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out of the speakers and that's where
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you're gonna want to cut so for me it's
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right around 3100 Hertz here so then
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we're gonna take that and then dip it
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just a little bit
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so that's helping a bit and usually
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there's there's two spots that I found
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and this is like again after mixing
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hundreds of songs with tone like this
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this is what I've discovered it's
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usually one kind of lower in the 3k
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range and then higher in the five to six
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K range so let's do another one here
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it's not too bad but listen when I get
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further down to like five and a half K
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or 5,300
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see how that's just jumping out in a
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really nasty way so again we're gonna
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dip that out a little bit
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so again let's let's do both of these
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together
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now the key here is not to dip out too
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far I mean I'm not one of these guys who
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says like just take 4k and just
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completely take it out of your pics I
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think that kills a lot of the energy and
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the definition of like the pic attack on
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heavy guitars like this so I only dip
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out maybe one to two DBS with a narrow
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band like this but I think it makes a
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big difference so now with the filters
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and both of these narrow cuts engaged
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let's a be the guitars now
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check it out on the course
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it's almost like we've taken kind of a
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good tone but it's just like that has
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all of these kind of out-of-control
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elements and then we just come in and we
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just clean those up we trim off the
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low-end that's just Wolfie and rumbly
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that we don't need it's not contributing
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to the tone get rid of it same thing on
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the high end with the the harsh fizz
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that's again not contributing to the
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tone filter it out and then dip out some
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of the harshness but leaving it enough
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so that you still have some definition
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and honestly guys I've done records out
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there like fairly big releases where
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this kind of EQ is the only thing I've
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done like no boost no other big cuts or
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anything like that this is the only EQ
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that's on the guitars at all so if
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you're finding yourself struggling with
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guitar tone like doing tons of crazy EQ
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boosts and cuts and all these different
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processing tricks to your heavy guitars
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maybe go back and start with this just
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make sure you get your filters right on
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the low-end high-end to just clean up
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those extreme frequencies that we don't
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need in the guitar tome cut out some of
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the harshness and the high mids again
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usually for me I found it it's around 3k
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and then somewhere around five or six K
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sweep it find those harsh frequencies
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dip it out a bit but leave some
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definition and it really makes a huge
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difference
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we've got way more space for our bass to
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fill in the low-end now we've got more
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space in the high-end for the air of the
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vocals the cymbals even lead guitars to
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cut through things that we want brighter
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again we're just making space in the mix
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leaving the good parts of the tone
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intact getting rid of everything that's
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not serving us in the mix and again I've
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done records where this is the only
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thing that's necessary all right I hope
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this helps you get a better metal guitar
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tone in your mixes if you want more tips
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