LeeRosario
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So I'm listening to a few reference finals of commercial rock music and I'm curious as to what's going on with the guitars. Pick any major song done within the last 10 years.
They seem to come out in front without interfering with the mix at all.
I would think that conventionally, any kind of heavy compression on a mix closes (or gives the illusion of closing) the stereo field, losing some of that clear width in a mix. Yet I listen to these mixes and the guitars are blaring right there, almost separate from the mix.
To me it feels like some kind of M/S technique is being used to process the guitars separately in the mix...
Is there such a thing as specifically processing guitars in a separate stem during mastering? If not, does the mix buss quality at the mixdown level attribute to this?
Could it be simply just the right amounts of compression and EQ?
They seem to come out in front without interfering with the mix at all.
I would think that conventionally, any kind of heavy compression on a mix closes (or gives the illusion of closing) the stereo field, losing some of that clear width in a mix. Yet I listen to these mixes and the guitars are blaring right there, almost separate from the mix.
To me it feels like some kind of M/S technique is being used to process the guitars separately in the mix...
Is there such a thing as specifically processing guitars in a separate stem during mastering? If not, does the mix buss quality at the mixdown level attribute to this?
Could it be simply just the right amounts of compression and EQ?