willbartlett
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Yeah that makes perfect sense!! I'm using Yam HS5's. It sounds great on them but much muddier than yours on my cheaper speakers. I need to do some EQ-ing!
A trick I do that I learned from some youtube video a little while ago that is probably well known is I put an EQ plugin on a guitar track, solo that track and boost a very thin part around 150khz all the way to the top (like 10db boost). From there I playback the guitar part and slowly move the top of the point right until around 400khz, while doing that I listen to the sound and when a really harsh, annoying sound is presented, I know that will be a part that's hurting the mix overall. So I drop the spike that has the harsh frequency to around -6db or -8db. I do that on both guitar tracks and bass guitar.
I do the exact same technique on the master stereo track to remove any overall harsh frequencies, but I reduce it only to like -4.
Also, on the electric guitars I roll off everything below like 60 or 70khz which seems to allow the kick drum and bass guitar to punch through the mix.
I'm no expert in audio production, but my ears tell me doing that stuff makes it sound cleaner in a mix.