easlern
Boredom artist
You create space by level and panning, and by not turning up the volume of every single track in hopes of creating impact. If your guitar are too loud and panned near the center of the mix, no amount of EQ will prevent your vocal from getting stepped on.
I think this is a bit of an oversimplification. By this logic playing a dog whistle would step on your vocal. Faders, eqs and pan knobs are all volume tools. And there’s not much difference between a pan knob and two faders.