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what's up everyone Jordan here from hardcore mixing studio. in this video I'm

going to show you how I would EQ and compress a lead guitar track to get it

to poke through the mix and cut through the rhythm guitars and everything else

and really just kind of sore on top of the mix so I'm going to play the little

section that I'm going to to work on here just so you can hear what the end

result sounds like

all right so you can hear how here how that's really right up in your face and

it just stays on top of the mix the whole time so let's see what the raw

guitar track sounded like

so first up I've got an SSL channel for EQ here so my first step is to set the

high-pass filter and I have this set pretty high at 180 because on a lead

guitar track like this when it's mostly on the higher strings or at least on the

middle strings and higher strings you don't need any of the low-end below that

that's just going to help it that's just going to make it a clash with the rhythm

guitars in the bass and it's just going to be kind of Rumble that's there so

let's check that out

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so hopefully you can hear how it just takes that all of the subtle rubble

that's in there and just really focuses it where we want it next we've got a

low-pass filter at 10 K just to get rid of all the the hissing noise up top

alright moving down here adding some brightness at about 7 K not a whole not

a big boost but we'll check that out

so just adding a little air on top moving down at boost at 2.5 k and

boosting like guitar especially the guitar at 2.5 k it's going to give it a

little extra bite and kind of aggression in the mix so I'll a be that as well

alright moving down again we've got another boost at about 1.5 K and that's

going to help it give the mid-range cut that we need

that's going to sit on top like a vocal and poke through the other guitars and

those 1.5 2.5 k frequencies or what you really want to focus on boosting to

two-letter lead guitar cut through the mix so all of these are fairly subtle

moves on their own but let's see what it's what it adds up to here

the mid-range boosts even make it sound maybe a little bit too hokey or too

strong in the mid-range but in the context of the mix it works works

perfectly so next I've got a the CL 3 CL a 3a compressor which I use a lot on

electric guitars I use the electric guitar preset here so you can see so

I'll do an a/b here

Oh

just gives it a little squeeze that sounds a nice on guitars it's not so

much for dynamic or level control it just kind of smoothes it as squeezes it

a little bit and gives it a good character

so finally I've got the L one limiter which I actually use quite a bit on lead

guitars and this is just going to take off the the high high peaks and just

really put it right up in your face and have it not moving away

Oh

so it's only doing a few DB at a time and it's not necessarily working on it

constantly but hopefully you can hear when I switch it on the guitars just

right up there like right in your face it doesn't move every note just cuts

right through there and is right up front I'll do one more a beyond that

all right so that's my whole chain pretty simple just some EQ compression

and a little bit of limiting let's just listen to it one more time I'll pass all

my plugins and then switch them on halfway through

that's how you can help a lead guitar cut through the mix okay you guys hope

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