tips on separating two acoustic guitar tracks?

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After listening to your clip, it doesn't sound like there is that much
of a problem to me, the lead is easily distinguishable from the other
part -- the playing style, attack of the notes, and the level
difference allow you to hear them both clearly.

Otherwise, yes, EQ, and panning, and giving each guitar its own
ambience with a room/reverb/delay/compression effect. With the EQ you
could try scooping out the mids a bit on rhythm guitar, and adding
them a bit on the other, etc.

Al

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:55:30 -0500, "£ Î Z @ R Ð"
<jattea@adelphia.net> wrote:

>situation: I've got a song with an acoustic guitar main rhythm part, and
>another acoustic guitar doing lead fills on top of it. But because of
>budget constraints, it's the same guitar, and the same mic
>
>so how should I go about making it so that the two tracks don't blend
>together?
>
>(here's the current mix of the song:
>http://www.guestroomproject.com/Another%20Road.mp3 .. the second acoustic
>guitar part comes in at about 43 seconds.)
>
>there's the obvious, panning, but can I do more? Maybe put more reverb on
>one? delay? Eq? I'm guessing eq is probably the best way to do this, but
>I'm not sure exactly what I should do... I think in this mix I'd like
>to bring the "lead" guitar up a little bit, but I don't want it to totally
>drown out the rhythm guitar.
>
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£ Î Z @ R Ð wrote:
> situation: I've got a song with an acoustic guitar main rhythm part, and
> another acoustic guitar doing lead fills on top of it. But because of
> budget constraints, it's the same guitar, and the same mic
>
> so how should I go about making it so that the two tracks don't blend
> together?

I took a quick listen, I don't think you need to do anything to separate
the guitars from each other. As already mentioned, the difference in the
parts provides plenty of distinction.

One thing I do notice, there seems to be a bit of buildup in the lower
midrange in this mix. It's just a combination of a lot of the
instruments contributing to the problem. You might want to try to EQ out
a little of that on a few of the tracks. Otherwise, it's a pretty nice mix.

--
Eric

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"£ Î Z @ R Ð" <jattea@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> situation: I've got a song with an acoustic guitar main rhythm part, and
> another acoustic guitar doing lead fills on top of it. But because of
> budget constraints, it's the same guitar, and the same mic
>
> so how should I go about making it so that the two tracks don't blend
> together?
>
> (here's the current mix of the song:
> http://www.guestroomproject.com/Another%20Road.mp3 .. the second acoustic
> guitar part comes in at about 43 seconds.)
>

I only listened on some computer speakers but it sounded fine I thought.