Thank you for making it so easy to understand. You know the literal meaning of explaining a thing to a beginner. Teaching is not showing off what you know, it’s all about making others understand what you teach them. Thanks again. Huge shoutout from Sri Lanka.
thanks so much for actually explaining about taking out the whistling sounds. I always see producers do those green 'dips' on the EQ and they never explain why! You explain it so well.
Since UA-cam has removed the option to add annotations, I'll have to post any edits/clarifications in the comments from now on... bummer. I wanted to clarify that frequencies under 80hz are not useless frequencies in all cases. It's quite the opposite in something like a kick drum, where the fundamental can be as low as 40hz. However, in the case of most stringed instruments, including bass, these sub low frequencies often don't contain any meaningful information and can end up causing a lot of woofiness and a general lack of clarify in your mix. The amount of low end you should or shouldn't remove really depends on the source audio and the context of the instrument in the mix. Sometimes I don't filter any low end out and sometimes I'll filter out as high as 200hz or more.
Awesome video dude. I studied a degree in music tech and it's been years since I put it into practice. This is as I was taught but much more concise and practically explained. Liked and subscribed.
Just.. Thank you.. You explained minimal Eqing so well, and your compression explanation was just amazing. I didnt know that I needed to makeup the compressed signal I was taking out.. (give me the dunce hat I know) Thank you man, I really appreciate it.
Man great job my friend, taking complexity and making it understandable and and helpful…you are a really good teacher…I play pretty much exclusive acoustic and this is super helpful
This has been extremely helpful. I am a beginner in recording, just bought a mic and I didn't like what it recorded. Having identified and removed those annoying frequencies just made it come to life, thank you so much. Also the compressor and the stereo stuff has been really useful for someone like me, who has not done this before.
great comment about van halen sending reverb to another channel. Zeppelin used it on the acoustic on "Babe I'm gonna leave you" as well. great tutorial, Jay
This video was Incredibly helpful to me! Especially because you are using logic, so many people doing vids in pro tools, and because I'm a beginner I needed to see it in the same daw I'm learning in which is logic.
Ive never attempted to EQ before. you've showed me things I've never heard before and taught me so much (p.s. I'm writing this Half way through the video lol)
...hi Jay, 1st time i get your tutorial man, i got the LPX and I am coming from Cubase LE%, and I am excited brother. I wanted to thank you for your good explanation. Appreciated! I like and subscribe.
Let me just say this Jay. This is the first time I even witnessed those frequencies of acoustic guitar in my mix. MAN, what an eye opener. I had to play it back over and over again to see if I made some kind of setting causing that irritating ring. This video tutorial is simply amazing. Thanks so much for the insight and opening my ears to the frequencies that need to go away. :) One question, if the frequency if very very subtle after taking them out, should a person still try to get rid of the very subtle ones?
Hi John, glad I could help! The more you listen, the more ringing frequencies you'll hear. You can't remove them all, nor should you try to remove them all. What's important is that you're only EQing out the ones that are most distracting. When it comes to surgical EQ such as this, it's best to do as little as you can get away with! :)
That's good stuff, but I hear my vocals in the right because guitar is panned in the left I guess, even though my vocals are in the centre. Is there a way around that?
I wonder if youtube videos have their own filter/eq settings because the sound sounds a bit dull compared to how bright an acoustic guitar usually sounds. I am not saying it sounds bad but I read a comment below where you recorded this pretty much in the same position as i always record my guitar and with a LDC just like you yet on this you tube video the sound is like the tope end and low end has beed reduced.
Hey Adam! Thanks for the comment. I can assure you that while UA-cam's audio isn't perfect, it would not audibly change the EQ of the video. That's just how the recording is! There are many factors to why one recording might sound duller than another: the guitar, the room, the microphone and position, the age of the strings, plectrum used, etc.
Instead of bussing to an aux track, can you achieve the same mix (dry guitar on the left and effects on the right) by doubling your acoustic guitar? That is putting EQ and compression on a guitar track panned left and reverb on a different guitar track that is panned right?
Thank you! It was a Taylor acoustic guitar with a blue spark condenser microphone pointed at the 12th fret about 1 foot back. I believe it was recorded on a Presonus Audiobox. A very budget preamp but as you can hear it recorded very cleanly.
Every guitar is different, so keep experimenting until you find the sound that's in your head! Don't be afraid to boost a lot of high end. I like to do a high shelving boost with a Pultec style EQ (Logic has a free one) and then continue to boost afterwards - if it needs it - with a more surgically placed bell filter on a standard digital EQ. It's also not a bad idea to try compressing before and after EQ. Point is, experiment! Make sure you're not mixing too loud though, and also make sure to take breaks. It's very easy to add too much high end if your ears are fatigued after a long mixing session.
Great question! In general, acoustic leads are very dynamic and you really don't want any notes getting lost in the mix. Because of this, I tend to compress lead lines much heavier than a rhythm part such as the one shown in the video. My chain generally looks something like: EQ, gentle compression, saturation, medium compression, EQ, and then sometimes another compressor after that. The key is to not let one compressor do too much of the work. Build the compression up gradually and spread the work. Although, there are some exceptions where I'll pick one compressor to do the heavy lifting, such as an 1176, and/or driving a saturation plugin, such as True Iron, until it starts losing bottom end, and then backing it off just slightly. Just gotta trust your ears!
I am using Monitoring headphones connected to my focusrite 3rd gen audio interface. I really couldn't hear the difference at around 6:02 . I like a nightmare, LOL. noooooooo!!!
I don't, but the process is very similar! You might just need to remove a bit more low end than when you're dealing with guitars. Around 120hz is what I usually end up with. Remove frequencies that make the singer sound muffled or stuffy, usually between the 250hz to 450hz region, and gently boost around 2k to improve clarity if you need to. Be careful when boosting here though because our hearing is most sensitive at around 2k so it's very easy to over do it. The compression is mostly the same; generally 3-6 db of reduction, a 4:1 ratio with a medium attack and quick release works 90% of the time. If you need the vocals to be really upfront, add a second compressor with the same settings. Hope this helps :)
Jay Crafton Thanks Jay. Hope you make more videos. Your instruction is spot on. I just finished mixing my first song, it’s a cover of ‘Hotline Bling’. I’ll be posting it on my channel tomorrow and would love your feedback if you have time to listen.
No problem, thank you! It's been over a year since I've uploaded, mostly because I was starting to feel like there may be too many tutorials already out there with valuable information, but I suppose there's always room for another perspective. If I have the time I would consider uploading tutorials again. Also, it's great to hear you're making and releasing music! That's the best practice there is, and it never ends.
Hey! You may be able to get away with taking a DI track of a single coil electric guitar and then using a match EQ plugin on a sample acoustic guitar track. Add a touch of chorus and some room reverb and you'll probably have a rather convincing acoustic sound. I've never actually tried this so let me know how it goes if you try it out!
Finally someone has explained EQ in a way I can understand! Thank you!!
Likewise. Thank you! I have watched a lot of videos but none as clear as this!
Thank you for making it so easy to understand. You know the literal meaning of explaining a thing to a beginner. Teaching is not showing off what you know, it’s all about making others understand what you teach them. Thanks again. Huge shoutout from Sri Lanka.
thanks so much for actually explaining about taking out the whistling sounds. I always see producers do those green 'dips' on the EQ and they never explain why! You explain it so well.
Since UA-cam has removed the option to add annotations, I'll have to post any edits/clarifications in the comments from now on... bummer. I wanted to clarify that frequencies under 80hz are not useless frequencies in all cases. It's quite the opposite in something like a kick drum, where the fundamental can be as low as 40hz. However, in the case of most stringed instruments, including bass, these sub low frequencies often don't contain any meaningful information and can end up causing a lot of woofiness and a general lack of clarify in your mix. The amount of low end you should or shouldn't remove really depends on the source audio and the context of the instrument in the mix. Sometimes I don't filter any low end out and sometimes I'll filter out as high as 200hz or more.
Awesome video dude. I studied a degree in music tech and it's been years since I put it into practice. This is as I was taught but much more concise and practically explained. Liked and subscribed.
Just.. Thank you.. You explained minimal Eqing so well, and your compression explanation was just amazing. I didnt know that I needed to makeup the compressed signal I was taking out.. (give me the dunce hat I know) Thank you man, I really appreciate it.
Wow I've watched hours of mixing tutorials this was the best eq example I've seen. Could easily hear the offending frequencies.
I was focusing so hard on listening for audio defects that I started analyzing your vocals haha. This is a phenomenal tutorial.
That’s been the most understandable lesson about how to mix a guitar. Keep up with the good work!
Man great job my friend, taking complexity and making it understandable and and helpful…you are a really good teacher…I play pretty much exclusive acoustic and this is super helpful
It's weird how I didn't hear any whistle at all then after you cut it then brought it back it was so obvious. Good teaching.
This has been extremely helpful. I am a beginner in recording, just bought a mic and I didn't like what it recorded. Having identified and removed those annoying frequencies just made it come to life, thank you so much. Also the compressor and the stereo stuff has been really useful for someone like me, who has not done this before.
This is the best tutorial I have ever seen, thank you so much!
Thank you, my pleasure! :)
This video is so so helpful. I've shifted through so many on mixing and this just stands out above the many. Fantastic job and thank you!
Also what's great is that you can apply this to other instruments fairly easily too!
This was so helpful! I actually learnt what to listen for with eq and what eq is, what compression does.. man you're amazing!
thanks for this ! just thought id check before i try mixing my acoustic tracks ,this helped alot
Great explanation! Thank you!! Once you have it explained well, it doesn't seem so complex. Nice work.
great comment about van halen sending reverb to another channel. Zeppelin used it on the acoustic on "Babe I'm gonna leave you" as well. great tutorial, Jay
Well done Jay ... compressors are the one thing I'm still getting used to. You helped clarify the approach for me. Very much appreciated.
Thank you! I'm very glad I could help.
This was very helpful! Especially the EQ part
This deserves more views! You helped me so much bro! Thank you
FINALLY holy crap this is incredibly helpful, bless your soul!!!
This video was Incredibly helpful to me! Especially because you are using logic, so many people doing vids in pro tools, and because I'm a beginner I needed to see it in the same daw I'm learning in which is logic.
Man, I always thought my guitar was no good. Now with your video it is amazing! Thank you so much!
Brilliant video man! The difference this has made already just for my home demos is mad, thank you! Subbed.
Thank you! I'll have more videos like this coming soon :)
This is so so helpful, thank you!
Very very helpful tips 👏👏👏👏 compliments to you mate 👍🙏
Ive never attempted to EQ before. you've showed me things I've never heard before and taught me so much (p.s. I'm writing this Half way through the video lol)
Hi Jay, thanks for the Bus reverb panning trick, a
very useful technique.....
dude this helped me so much! thank you!
brilliant video , thank You kindly Jay
dude this video was awesome. thank you. so simple and to the point. yessss!
...hi Jay, 1st time i get your tutorial man, i got the LPX and I am coming from Cubase LE%, and I am excited brother. I wanted to thank you for your good explanation. Appreciated! I like and subscribe.
Great explanation ! thank you
Great tips, bro! I love the bus idea... smooth added texture. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing!
Great video. Just what I was looking for. Thanks mate.
This is perfect! GREAT TUTORIAL!
This is explained really good thank you man ☘️☘️☘️
Fantastic tutorial.Thanks Jay.
Awesome tip! Helped me a lot mixing a mono guitar loop in logic :-)
Problem sorted...a big thank you
Thanks a ton! Already subscribed.
Helps me mixing down my very first solo guitar piece ;)
Just suacribed, thanks a lot mate!
Very good turtorial !! 👍🏼
what a trick!! Jay
Great job
Thanks a bunch. Now I can mix the guitars better
Really great tutorial
magic! thanks for sharing, learned a lot.
Very helpful, thanks
Thanks Jay - a very useful video.
Thank you soo much for the video!
Great video! Thanks
Great tutorial thanks!
Thanks for the help!
Thank you !
Very helpful, thanks!
really helpfull!! thanks man
what does it mean, that my meter in the compressor doesn't move ?
that means your input levels are too loud or your threshold is set too high
i recommend using the graph over the meter tho
great tutorial!
Very useful thanks
Hey Jay Thanks that was helpful.
Excellent 🙏🙏🙏
The hardest part is to get a good source. Especially when you only have a budget guitar and untreated room. =)
Excelente. Obrigado pela ótima explicação.
thanks. it help me a lot
Thanks :)
Are there any videos available to show on after recording acoustic guitar, how can we edit it to sound better. Please guide.
Let me just say this Jay. This is the first time I even witnessed those frequencies of acoustic guitar in my mix. MAN, what an eye opener. I had to play it back over and over again to see if I made some kind of setting causing that irritating ring. This video tutorial is simply amazing. Thanks so much for the insight and opening my ears to the frequencies that need to go away. :) One question, if the frequency if very very subtle after taking them out, should a person still try to get rid of the very subtle ones?
Hi John, glad I could help! The more you listen, the more ringing frequencies you'll hear. You can't remove them all, nor should you try to remove them all. What's important is that you're only EQing out the ones that are most distracting. When it comes to surgical EQ such as this, it's best to do as little as you can get away with! :)
That's good stuff, but I hear my vocals in the right because guitar is panned in the left I guess, even though my vocals are in the centre. Is there a way around that?
we may have same set up. my eq was almost same getting rid of that bus sound.
I wonder if youtube videos have their own filter/eq settings because the sound sounds a bit dull compared to how bright an acoustic guitar usually sounds. I am not saying it sounds bad but I read a comment below where you recorded this pretty much in the same position as i always record my guitar and with a LDC just like you yet on this you tube video the sound is like the tope end and low end has beed reduced.
Hey Adam! Thanks for the comment. I can assure you that while UA-cam's audio isn't perfect, it would not audibly change the EQ of the video. That's just how the recording is! There are many factors to why one recording might sound duller than another: the guitar, the room, the microphone and position, the age of the strings, plectrum used, etc.
Instead of bussing to an aux track, can you achieve the same mix (dry guitar on the left and effects on the right) by doubling your acoustic guitar? That is putting EQ and compression on a guitar track panned left and reverb on a different guitar track that is panned right?
Can you do a video explaining how to mix percussive guitar please?
Did you use an electric acoustic raw and what kind of acoustic was that? Interface? Sounded great before editing
Thank you! It was a Taylor acoustic guitar with a blue spark condenser microphone pointed at the 12th fret about 1 foot back. I believe it was recorded on a Presonus Audiobox. A very budget preamp but as you can hear it recorded very cleanly.
Great process, easy and effective, though I still find the final result lacking a bit of high frequency clarity and grip, how would you reach that?
Every guitar is different, so keep experimenting until you find the sound that's in your head! Don't be afraid to boost a lot of high end. I like to do a high shelving boost with a Pultec style EQ (Logic has a free one) and then continue to boost afterwards - if it needs it - with a more surgically placed bell filter on a standard digital EQ. It's also not a bad idea to try compressing before and after EQ. Point is, experiment! Make sure you're not mixing too loud though, and also make sure to take breaks. It's very easy to add too much high end if your ears are fatigued after a long mixing session.
@@JayCrafton thanks for your advices, keep up the awesome work you're doing.
Thank youu
Was this acoustic recording on a regular microphone 🎤 plus using the acoustic plugin
Nice sound
What about compressing some lead acoustic lines?
Great question! In general, acoustic leads are very dynamic and you really don't want any notes getting lost in the mix. Because of this, I tend to compress lead lines much heavier than a rhythm part such as the one shown in the video. My chain generally looks something like: EQ, gentle compression, saturation, medium compression, EQ, and then sometimes another compressor after that. The key is to not let one compressor do too much of the work. Build the compression up gradually and spread the work. Although, there are some exceptions where I'll pick one compressor to do the heavy lifting, such as an 1176, and/or driving a saturation plugin, such as True Iron, until it starts losing bottom end, and then backing it off just slightly. Just gotta trust your ears!
I am using Monitoring headphones connected to my focusrite 3rd gen audio interface. I really couldn't hear the difference at around 6:02 . I like a nightmare, LOL. noooooooo!!!
For the stereo effect do you use the Stereo Silververb plug in or the Mono version?
Mono :)
Thanks, great video! Do you have one on vocals?
I don't, but the process is very similar! You might just need to remove a bit more low end than when you're dealing with guitars. Around 120hz is what I usually end up with. Remove frequencies that make the singer sound muffled or stuffy, usually between the 250hz to 450hz region, and gently boost around 2k to improve clarity if you need to. Be careful when boosting here though because our hearing is most sensitive at around 2k so it's very easy to over do it. The compression is mostly the same; generally 3-6 db of reduction, a 4:1 ratio with a medium attack and quick release works 90% of the time. If you need the vocals to be really upfront, add a second compressor with the same settings. Hope this helps :)
Jay Crafton Thanks Jay. Hope you make more videos. Your instruction is spot on. I just finished mixing my first song, it’s a cover of ‘Hotline Bling’. I’ll be posting it on my channel tomorrow and would love your feedback if you have time to listen.
No problem, thank you! It's been over a year since I've uploaded, mostly because I was starting to feel like there may be too many tutorials already out there with valuable information, but I suppose there's always room for another perspective. If I have the time I would consider uploading tutorials again. Also, it's great to hear you're making and releasing music! That's the best practice there is, and it never ends.
Hey man! How can I plug a electric guitar on Logic Pro X and make it sound like a accoustic guitar (a Taylor, for example). Can you help? Thanks!
Hey! You may be able to get away with taking a DI track of a single coil electric guitar and then using a match EQ plugin on a sample acoustic guitar track. Add a touch of chorus and some room reverb and you'll probably have a rather convincing acoustic sound. I've never actually tried this so let me know how it goes if you try it out!
How to get that real guitar sound
By playing a guitar ??
great tutorial!