You want your rock guitars to be big and powerful. And you want them to be wide, but sometimes the wider you push them the less power they seem to have. They seem to get phasey and take away the low heat and focus from your mix. Today I have a solution for you.
What we are gonna do is widen just a specific frequency range on our guitars. This will help keep the power in our guitars while also making them wider. So after all our processing and eq on the guitars I’m going to pull in a width plug-in. But I’m going to utilize the splitter tool in studio one which allows me to split my processing in a couple different ways. Today we are going to use the frequency split. This lets me put plugins on certain frequency ranges and leave the others unaffected. You want to set the frequency point just under where the heart of the guitar sound resides. That’s usually going to be somewhere around 500 or 600 because the midrange is what is crucial on rock guitars. That’s what you are selling. I set mine at 600 and put the width plug-in on the 600 and up section.
Now what we are going to do it widen just 600 hz and up on our guitars. So we are just widening the midrange and top end of the guitars and the low end is staying right where it is. This means we have our power from the low end on our guitars right where it was hard panned, but now the midrange and top end is pushed out a little bit further to make our guitars feel a little bit wider. So what we end up with are wider rock guitars that still have the power we mixed them to have because we only widened the top and left the lows right where they were.
Something you can also try is putting the same width plug-in on the opposite frequency spectrum and narrowing it to make the lows more mono. But that’s something you can check out in the video above.
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