How the Pros Get WIDE Guitar Mixes

some quotes I like when mixing: 1) if everything is stereo, nothing is stereo 2) keep the mud (low end) in the middle 3) the wider, the brighter the one thing all of these have in common is that they create contrast (ie; a good mix of both mono & stereo & good, logical placement of low & high frequencies)

Another thing you can try is to pan the guitar reverbs to the opposite side to the guitar. So 2 guitar tracks: The guitar hard panned to the right, send it's reverb hard to the left and visa versa. So each stereo channel pan has it's own guitar plus the reverb from the guitar that is hard panned to the opposite side.

Love your enthusiasm, Joe. And the lesson is always worth a view. Thanks.

This was a GREAT video. I took your advice with hard panning the guitars and it's absolutely a game changer. I'm enjoying the mixes a lot more. I was always told NOT to hard pan the guitars but it sounds really good with the hard pan. Thanks Joe!

That trick of doubling also works for background vocals and it pushes the main vocal and give it some sort of "bed" to lie on . Works even better if the BG Vocals are in a beautiful harmonie.

"The instruments wider should be brighter" is a great tip! Thanks Joe!!

I used this technique in a recent Cover Song recording challenge in another group. Same parts, different guitars and amps. I doubled two straight rhythm parts, and two constant riff parts, and ran the screaming lead guitar straight up the middle. Totally works!

Awesome video! About the phase guitar problems, lets note that most times when we hear music we actually hear the mono mix, we almost never seat on a sweet spot on a stereo system. We actually only listen to stereo with earphones or sitting in a sweet spot.

I always double track rather than copy/paste/slide...sounds much more natural. An odd trick I do but I swear by it is I actually turn off the other Guitar track. I will often do this if I'm adding a Harmony part as well. I've found the parts come out much tighter as you're not "chasing" the other part

Pretty beginner tips which I knew, until the end the general rule of reducing low end the more you pan outwards is not something I've thought of. I'll definitely keep that in mind with future mixes.

Hi Jo....I just love to listen to your sessions, it not only makes sense but you laugh at yourself when little thing go haywire, you make me laugh and wouldn't surprise me if the others laugh as well, you needed to be doing this 10 yrs ago when I first joined Graham with Recordingrevolution as Im still making crap recordings with my made up songs of my own, but i'm never happy with the results, but since you JO stepped into Recording revolution I feel i have excelled so much, even though I've had to postpone getting in my little home studio since my wife went totally blind Last xmas, but since you have taking over I have now finished my first song complete with a great sound when played on my Bose home player, it's just brilliant, when my wife and l listen to this first song it brought tears to her eyes, of coarse that started me off then, but it's all down to you Jo thank you...what I have realised is, it's not Graham's fault as his teaching he did that well, but I would fall asleep after only after a short while, but you make it interesting and fun when your talking, Thank you to Graham for realising how good your friend Jo would be for Recordingrevolution

That first do-not-do trick is a Steve Albini trick. He says the sweet spot is 22ms. anything more you get bad phasing. I personally like it for big distorted/fuzzy stuff.

You know, I've chased guitar sound for a long time. I was shown, Via YouTube, duplicate and offset. Seeing this, now I can't wait to get home and hear the change. Thanks for this!

Very good stuff, Joe

Love the vids👊🏼 Can you do a how to make a 2 track mix bled better vocals etc

Top bloke, changed my game for the better. Thanks Joe.

Thank you so much for a great tip

Excellent, thank you.

Very good video Joe for those that are learning + us. I agree Hard Lft & Rt adding maybe a different EQ, AMP on one side. Also I do on certain songs is to play Guitar out let’s say the left ( Panned Hard ) yet it’s Verb being sent/ Panned to the Right speaker. Very Good effect that I can’t say it’s better but on some Songs that works great as well! Thank you as always Joe. Keep them coming. Love to watch & learn. 🎚🎧🎹🎤George Amodei☺️ ( sorry… yes w/ Keys I use both methods! ☺️

Very cool! Thanks buddy 🤓