On 5/8/2019 1:02 PM, James Price wrote:
EQ matching is well suited in the case of a guitarist who has
a specific sound they're interested in replicating and to which they have a
reference track. If you can find a tone that the guitarist or producer agrees
is better than the reference, all the better.
than the reference,
But wouldn't the first step be to listen to what comes out of the
amplifier and adjust the amp, the guitar, and the playing to get the
sound you want - using your reference track as . . um . . a reference?
Or are we assuming that you're mixing a track that's fully baked, must
be part of the production, and will not be replaced? I'm glad that I
don't have to take jobs like that.
What might be handy along those lines, though, is a tool that identifies
an effect applied to a reference guitar track and helps you to reverse
engineer it. Like, you know it's reverb, but you don't have a good
estimate of the reverb time, initial delay, reflections, damping, etc.
Or if there's delay, what's the delay time or times, or if it's a
chorus, what delay and what modulation. Those are some things where
smarts can be applied wisely. EQ is just frequency response distortion.
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