The first point is being sure that you don’t remove too much or the original track. That’s not so easy. A simple trick : try to adjust your EQ settings on the original track after you’ve done your mix, to try to correct this trebly character. What can happen is that you realize that you used to cut too much frequencies at first.
(all this is about mixing and not mastering, by the way)
Thanks @dlamson13!!... The last band I played in (still fill in for) has 3 lead guitar players that all love playing this song. They would each take turns playing lead sections of the song - sometimes sections would go for what seemed forever, and all requested (required) that I play a solid walk up bass riff to lead into each of their solo sections…. No one playing other than myself during those walk ups…Everything else was just a lock in beat with the drummer during each solo with the other guitarists playing rhythm…. DYNAMITE!! Very cool…
It is a fun song to play even though it would get monotonous at times. We had one lead guitar player that played for over 20 years in a “Stones” tribute band out if New York…. Damn, he was GOOD!! Even looked like Keith Richards….
I too wish I was as good as @terb in this aspect…. He’s really a genius at this…. All I can ever do with the equipment I have to work with is just EQ out what I can in the lower end of originals and just go with it…… All fun!!
I was going to suggest this. It’s difficult to avoid removing too much and shifting the EQ balance to be too trebly, even with tools like RX or Deeter/Moises/etc (which are effectively an advanced automatic parametric EQ). However, you can likely work on it with EQ and compression afterwards to both tame the highs and also bring back up some of the lows. Fixing the kick drum is probably very hard though.
I have a multiband doubletracking plugin that I was thinking would work well too. basically, leave the highs as-is (after taming with EQ) but double-track just the low mids and mids on that track to bring them out more.
It’s moot for me since I don’t use backing tracks, but might be an interesting approach.
To close the loop on #32 there, the guy has pulled all of his auctions for it (he had several up; more than one on ebay, one on Yahoo, one on Mercari, etc…). None sold. It’s possible he had a private sale, but really the thing seemed kind of fishy. His Mercari account did not have good reputation either.
All in all I am glad I passed on it last summer.
As cool as a double-P would be, and as rare as the J2 is, I’m happy with my SBV-550. I mean, I wouldn’t mind a SBV-800MF, but I’m not dying for one.
(And of course I immediately found one for sale after posting that, but at close to $800 more than I spent for my SBV-550… nope )
Most funky @Growl ! As well as definitely being in the pocket your obvious knowledge of the fretboard and ability to comfortably get around the neck shines through