omonoiatis9
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I am pretty much a beginner when it comes to mixing or mastering. My gear consists of a guitar, a computer and a guitar preamp that I plug onto the computer. No microphones used, just direct recording. As far as software goes, I use Nuendo, and I've lately started toying around with Ozone, in particular the interesting EQ-Matching feature.
As a beginner what I do for "Mixing Practice" is import a real, professional mix in Nuendo, then record all the instruments myself from scratch and try to get as close as possible to the real mix.
Well, one day I got bored and decided to cheat and see how close I can get using EQ-Matching. So what I did is I took an isolated sample of the real guitars in the track, used it as my EQ source, and matched it onto my guitar tone for the same riff (using the same riff is important if you want to get a close match). But that won't do it cause the song isn't just guitars. It's drums, it's bass, etc. However since I couldn't get isolated parts of drums or bass to do the same, I just picked a part where everything is playing and matched it onto the same part of my mix.
Here are the samples:
[Professional mix of the song]
[My cover, trying to copy with EQ matching]
[A and B comparison], both playing together towards the end
And [This is as close] as I could get before using any EQ matching
Thoughts?
As a beginner what I do for "Mixing Practice" is import a real, professional mix in Nuendo, then record all the instruments myself from scratch and try to get as close as possible to the real mix.
Well, one day I got bored and decided to cheat and see how close I can get using EQ-Matching. So what I did is I took an isolated sample of the real guitars in the track, used it as my EQ source, and matched it onto my guitar tone for the same riff (using the same riff is important if you want to get a close match). But that won't do it cause the song isn't just guitars. It's drums, it's bass, etc. However since I couldn't get isolated parts of drums or bass to do the same, I just picked a part where everything is playing and matched it onto the same part of my mix.
Here are the samples:
[Professional mix of the song]
[My cover, trying to copy with EQ matching]
[A and B comparison], both playing together towards the end
And [This is as close] as I could get before using any EQ matching
Thoughts?