Some time ago I took a course from you called Understanding EQ. It literally changed my thinking and the way I approached EQ. My mixes improved dramatically because the tracks sounded much better by fixing small problems first with subtractive EQ rather than boosting right away. You're applying what you taught in the course here and It just works. Thanks for all the content you share with us. I really enjoy the videos and the Tuesday live stream.
Wow Joe, this is the first time I've seen someone put a low end shelf BOOST!! I'm just a singer songwriter so my recordings are just acoustic guitar and vocals, amd (probably from watching too many CZcams videos) the first thing I always do to the guitar is a high pass filter!! Then it sounds a bit "empty"....I'm gonna try this way, looking for any bad frequency FIRST! Great vid thanks!
boosting sub 100hz if the guitar is in a multi layer mix is a very bad idea; a lot of instruments occupy this frequency area, but if its a solo acoustic with voice then a boost makes it fatter
Some well known low frequency vibration modes of the acoustic guitar are at 188Hz and 204Hz (hence boomy). You don't have to find them by ear. This is why the lower G notes can be boomy.
Super helpful to see you hunt for frequencies in real time. A lot of tutorials just show you the results without showing the steps it took to get there.
On that narrow cut in the Low-Mid you're cutting I believe what's known as the wolf note of the acoustic guitar so if you can figure out the specific note that causes the "pop" you can find the frequency and save that EQ for that specific guitar it literally changes from instrument to instrument, but you will always be able to have that note cut out and it will save a bit of time
Thanks for this one Joe, just what I needed as a newbie Studio One User. My first thing I want to record is acoustic guitar. This has been very helpful for my needs.
I'm new to your channel, and I produce Gospel, R&B, and Jazz music. I'm also new to Studio One, left Profools! Lol! Every mixing technique I have seen you do, on all your videos have been on point. You are very good at what do. Keep up the good work! Thank you for sharing you knowledge and wisdom.
GREAT VIDEO AND I REALLY APPRECIATED THE DETAILED EXPLANATION ABOUT YOUR EQ DECISIONS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ANOTHER VIDEO LIKE THIS BUT ABOUT THE COMPRESSION OF ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND THE MIXING OF DIFFERENT LAYERS AND GUITAR TRAKCS. THANKS! LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. I JUST SUBSCRIBED!
i can still hear a kind of harmonic sound coming from that middle-high frequencies, like a little whistle.... but yeah, pretty much the same things that i've been doing in my mixes... i'm used to put more than one EQ plugin, like the first one just for the cuts, like high pass, and low, to create room and remove this littles problems that we kind always have, as you said this is pretty much the same for most acoustic guitar tracks.... thank you for the video!
Yay! I was hearing everything you were :D I even thought, "Hmmm, I think he should widen the q on the low end dip," and lo and behold, you widened it! Thanks for your awesome channel.
Really good tips. One thing you mentioned I've been telling people for years....crap in, crap out. Gotta make the tracks as good as you can from the beginning. It's way easier to "sweeten" a well recorded track than to "fix" one in mixing. Peace.
Just a tip to those listening on laptops and tablets with tiny crappy speakers: If you can't hear some of the things Joe talks about don't feel bad or think your ears aren't good enough. On tiny computer speakers some of those frequencies being discussed literally *may not be there* when you play them back. If you're into audio and listen to a lot of this cool stuff, it's worth it to outfit your computer with some good speakers and/or headphones.
Thanks for the great video Joe! I was hearing a consistent ringing frequency around 1k that you chose not to notch out; was that on purpose? I'm thinking that maybe you didn't want to cut out too much from the original tone.
I am at 8:03 currently and you asked if there was anything else that needs to be adjusted, I am definitely hearing a harmonic ringing somewhere around 700hz ish I am guessing but I am just commenting ahead so I can look back at what I mentioned and see if you tackled that haha
I am not sure if you can hear it on your monitors but its very apparent on mine and I am using sonarworks reference 4 as well.. Do you normally leave the harmonic ringing in your guitars? I find the ringing drives me nuts, so I end up notching it but then another one appears and then I get stuck notching a 1000 frequencies haha
Great video, just wanted to point out something. Recording at very low levels like you're doing does in fact affect the sound quality, but it's not about tone so much as bit depth, which has more to do with clarity than tone. Obviously 24 bits sounds clearer and more natural than, say, 16 bits. When you record at these very low levels (and just looking at the pre-normalized wave file, it looks like you are recording at VERY low levels), you're wasting all that bit depth. When you do that track after track, and then mix them all together, it does have a noticeable effect. If you're worried about clipping, just play as loud as you would reasonably expect, find the ceiling, and adjust your input so that it's a little below that. Or, if you have the gear, you could always preemptively run it through a compressor set to knock down those extreme peaks. Or you could use a limiter, although a compressor with the right settings would probably sound a little better.
Great video! You might turn that notch into a dynamic EQ. Then you can exaggerate a bit more without affecting the rest of the sound (between the down-strums) too much..
Hello Joe, would u do a video on what Producers should look for when they receive a final mix and mastered wav from engineers? A checklist at a high level. There seems to be none on You Tube........All the videos created are for engineers. Some want just listening and judging skills as a Producer....
Training yourself to hear these problems, how do you do that? Do you know from the start that a bass, drums, vocals etc typically has a problematic area in the EQ, or how do you adress it?
Hey Joe, you wonderful teacher of all things recording, mixing, mastering and producing, can you add guitar playing to that list? I play guitar and are always looking for ways to improve. Just in that few bars there of the guitar track you used I’m thinking “how is he doing that twiddly bit?” etc.. Could you do a video on some of your guitar playing techniques? Just a thought. Cheers
great video Joe. Can you make one where you explain compression on acoustic guitars in some situations? and also, really waiting for another mix together series :)
Awesome video, what the best way to record an electric acoustic guitar? Mic ? Cable straight to the interface and create an audio file? (I did the last one. and sound so weak!! )
Again, great. Question. I do not see nor can I find that side menu that allows me to "click" normalize" as you did early on. Can you send a note as to how do I access that? see a lot of other info, but not that.
Hi joe! I'm a big fan of your tutorials! You are one of the best teachers alive! Really :)) I'm a one man metal band. Recently working on my new EP. And your tutorials are helping me a lot. But I had a small question. Is that! In another video about Studio monitors you said. In the DAW its better to keep the Project volume level for mixing at -10DB but here you are mixing the acoustic song on a normal 0 DB ? May I know why is that ? And once again thank you so much for your tutorials
Thanks for the simple, straightforward demonstration of mixing the acoustic guitar. Unrelated question - do you ever use the Mixtool plugin on Studio One? I've been using Studio One for about a year, and just learned about that plugin a couple days ago. I applied it to a mix I am working on, and it was like someone turned on the lights in a dark room. As a Studio One user, I would like to see more demonstrations of the plugins that come with it.
I know it's just a gain knob, but now I no longer have to adjust the level on the soundwave. I was spending incredible amounts of time with gain staging, sometimes bypassing it altogether out of sheer frustration. New knowledge is always great, even if it is "just a gain knob".
What I was just thinking when you where speaking of not recording to loud was: You have a given bit "deph" at which your sound is recorded. lets say 16 Bit (for CD). So if you are recording at quiter levels you are not really using the whole range. thus your signal has not the best resolution it could have. Correct me if I am worng here! Id like to know better. :D
Not using the full 16 bit range results in a little extra noise or hiss. As long as this is not audible it is no issue. By the way I only record in 24 bit when my source is audible without many other sounds, and has quite parts. For instance a song with only guitar and vocal. Bit depth is highly overrated.
So is this stereo recording with 2 mics panned output to separate mono tracks panned hard left and right. Or a stereo out channel. Or out a mono channel?..
Interesting. I have to try the notch thing next time; that's new to me. Thanks for the tip! Please don't stop the playback when switching between processed and unprocessed. It is much easier to hear the differences if there is no interruption and the track just plays on. Also, please do not _speak_ at the point of switching. Leave a few seconds to listen to the difference in the signal and _then_ speak. This pause almost completely resets my ears, especially with speech in between and I don't get any of the significant difference you are talking about.
I'm writing biker ballad for my first metal album, and acoustic just sounds weird in mix. Distorted rhythm guitars I always doubletrack. Solo I know where to place. But acoustic just sounds weird and not like in songs that I like
Thank you so much! Joe, tell me please, what is the guitar and what strings do you use in this video? It sounds very... soft. My guitar sounds more... higher and "angry" and I don't like it (Fender CD 60 + d'addario strings 10 - 50 standart tuning).
Man, love your video! Could I ask which technique you used for recording the guitar? Because it looks like it is stereo signal, but I don't know if you recorded it that way or just recorded mono, used some processing and bounced it to stereo. Thanks a lot for the answer! Greetings from Czech Republic!
Anyone have any advice for me. My acoustic guitar always sounds boomy and if I eq out some of the mids and lows then it just sounds thin. This is mostly noticeable when Im plucking the strings. Any help appreciated
I've been watching all of your videos lately as I'm new to the mixing world. Perhaps this topic has been addressed elsewhere before or it's simply a matter of doing a better recording, but some of my older songs from over 10 years ago have a lot of gliss when moving up and down the fretboard on an acoustic guitar. Is there something that can be used to lessen this in the mix?
Hi Joe, I'm trying to record some of my blues tracks, so I thought "ok, record rhythm with the strat, vocals, and some lead fills with the strat, that's it..." then I started thinking, wait, if I go that route I really should have drums, bass etc...right? So if I don't have drums, bass, etc, then recording rhythm on acoustic, then some lead fills with the strat....would be a better option, wouldn't it? :( I'm confused
This is a matter of arrangement. If your rhythm guitar is lightly or heavily distorted or crunchy, it will sound piercing and not so enjoyable by itself, without the drums, bass and other elements of orchestration. Strat clean rhythm alone could work with a not so crunchy blues solo. If you're unable to record real drums and bass, I could recommend installing drums and bass plugins on that work on midi, so you can program them to get them to play what you want. It never holds the place of the real thing but being able to at least hear some orchestration for your tracks could give you a motivational push. But you could also record your rhythms on an acoustic and lay on top of it a nice, tastefully dialled strat tone. For some reason I tend to feel that will sound better tonewise and give you a pleasant track to listen to. It's a self evident fact that the best way to decide which method sounds better is to try and see it for yourself. No single person around the globe can give you a specifically tailored recipe that will make your recordings better. You are the one that's in the room in which you're recording. You're the one playing the specific guitar that you have in your hands. You're the one going for a variety of ideas to work on. Don't confuse. Nobody learned arrangement or mixing in their mother's womb (this is a direct translation of how it's said in my native language) :) Always spend time on trying new things and never have a day without music.
there is a better way to fix that, I figured out 2 months ago, just do automation on certain wave peaks. only automating fader little bit without using Eq.
I like the way you translate frequencies with mouth to make us understand. thank your your efforts man.
The best part is u r telling what exactly u hear which eventually helps us in understanding it better. Love n respect frm India❤️❤️❤️👏👏
With every video I click, I see more stuff on the side that I also want to see/learn. What a great channel Joe, thank you for this.
Some time ago I took a course from you called Understanding EQ. It literally changed my thinking and the way I approached EQ. My mixes improved dramatically because the tracks sounded much better by fixing small problems first with subtractive EQ rather than boosting right away. You're applying what you taught in the course here and It just works. Thanks for all the content you share with us. I really enjoy the videos and the Tuesday live stream.
Well THANKS!!
Wow Joe, this is the first time I've seen someone put a low end shelf BOOST!! I'm just a singer songwriter so my recordings are just acoustic guitar and vocals, amd (probably from watching too many CZcams videos) the first thing I always do to the guitar is a high pass filter!! Then it sounds a bit "empty"....I'm gonna try this way, looking for any bad frequency FIRST! Great vid thanks!
boosting sub 100hz if the guitar is in a multi layer mix is a very bad idea; a lot of instruments occupy this frequency area, but if its a solo acoustic with voice then a boost makes it fatter
Some well known low frequency vibration modes of the acoustic guitar are at 188Hz and 204Hz (hence boomy). You don't have to find them by ear. This is why the lower G notes can be boomy.
True😄
All guitars are different sizes so I'm not sure you can assume these exact frequencies will always be a problem. Use your ears, not your calculator.
Super helpful to see you hunt for frequencies in real time. A lot of tutorials just show you the results without showing the steps it took to get there.
On that narrow cut in the Low-Mid you're cutting I believe what's known as the wolf note of the acoustic guitar so if you can figure out the specific note that causes the "pop" you can find the frequency and save that EQ for that specific guitar it literally changes from instrument to instrument, but you will always be able to have that note cut out and it will save a bit of time
I'm super happy I found your page. Super informative and will help me mix these songs!! Thank you sir
Thanks for this one Joe, just what I needed as a newbie Studio One User. My first thing I want to record is acoustic guitar. This has been very helpful for my needs.
Good stuff. Thanks! Love how you walked through finding the problem frequencies.
Thanks for watching!
I'm new to your channel, and I produce Gospel, R&B, and Jazz music. I'm also new to Studio One, left Profools! Lol! Every mixing technique I have seen you do, on all your videos have been on point. You are very good at what do. Keep up the good work! Thank you for sharing you knowledge and wisdom.
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GREAT VIDEO AND I REALLY APPRECIATED THE DETAILED EXPLANATION ABOUT YOUR EQ DECISIONS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ANOTHER VIDEO LIKE THIS BUT ABOUT THE COMPRESSION OF ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND THE MIXING OF DIFFERENT LAYERS AND GUITAR TRAKCS. THANKS! LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. I JUST SUBSCRIBED!
i can still hear a kind of harmonic sound coming from that middle-high frequencies, like a little whistle.... but yeah, pretty much the same things that i've been doing in my mixes... i'm used to put more than one EQ plugin, like the first one just for the cuts, like high pass, and low, to create room and remove this littles problems that we kind always have, as you said this is pretty much the same for most acoustic guitar tracks.... thank you for the video!
You are really a great teacher..
Thank you, this is the first video on this that I feel I understood
Just browsed your site after this looks like loads of stuff that will help me thanks
just found you, love the way you explained, and your voice is warm :D is nice! thank you for your help!
Yay! I was hearing everything you were :D I even thought, "Hmmm, I think he should widen the q on the low end dip," and lo and behold, you widened it! Thanks for your awesome channel.
Great minds. :)
This video is really interesting. Would love to see something on recording solo finger style acoustic guitar in an instrumental situation.
Never used the normalize function in Studio One. Thanks for the tip!
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Really good tips. One thing you mentioned I've been telling people for years....crap in, crap out. Gotta make the tracks as good as you can from the beginning. It's way easier to "sweeten" a well recorded track than to "fix" one in mixing. Peace.
Seriously! I like your stuff💥👍🏼
I really like the preset EQ's in that plug in because I am not as good at EQ'ing as you are. But I did learn something today. TY.
Good to see some mixing videos back, keep up the good work!
thank you ...You teach difficult things to be very easy to understand.
Thank you so much for this!
Nice and understandable explained. Even if it's simpel, it has a huge impact on the sound.. Thanks man
Very helpful! Thank you Joe for this
Joe, I love all that you do. Thanks for everything, please keep it up!
Thanks Kasey!
Damn, that hammer pull off is tasty
Thank you very much!
As always, very helpful. Thank you, Joe.
Just a tip to those listening on laptops and tablets with tiny crappy speakers: If you can't hear some of the things Joe talks about don't feel bad or think your ears aren't good enough. On tiny computer speakers some of those frequencies being discussed literally *may not be there* when you play them back. If you're into audio and listen to a lot of this cool stuff, it's worth it to outfit your computer with some good speakers and/or headphones.
great shirt, great video!
Thanks for the great video Joe! I was hearing a consistent ringing frequency around 1k that you chose not to notch out; was that on purpose? I'm thinking that maybe you didn't want to cut out too much from the original tone.
Thanks, excellent 👊
Crystal clear explanation. Thank you!
I am at 8:03 currently and you asked if there was anything else that needs to be adjusted, I am definitely hearing a harmonic ringing somewhere around 700hz ish I am guessing but I am just commenting ahead so I can look back at what I mentioned and see if you tackled that haha
I am not sure if you can hear it on your monitors but its very apparent on mine and I am using sonarworks reference 4 as well.. Do you normally leave the harmonic ringing in your guitars? I find the ringing drives me nuts, so I end up notching it but then another one appears and then I get stuck notching a 1000 frequencies haha
Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Love the results, thank you.
VERY THANKS SIR
Didn't need to look for another tutorial after this :)
Very helpful! Thank you!
Very good video man! Thank you.
It seems to me that notch cut at 182hz would be a good contender for a dynamic EQ? (I just been watching videos on dynamic EQs haha).
Beautifully explained..thanks u
Great video, just wanted to point out something. Recording at very low levels like you're doing does in fact affect the sound quality, but it's not about tone so much as bit depth, which has more to do with clarity than tone. Obviously 24 bits sounds clearer and more natural than, say, 16 bits. When you record at these very low levels (and just looking at the pre-normalized wave file, it looks like you are recording at VERY low levels), you're wasting all that bit depth. When you do that track after track, and then mix them all together, it does have a noticeable effect.
If you're worried about clipping, just play as loud as you would reasonably expect, find the ceiling, and adjust your input so that it's a little below that. Or, if you have the gear, you could always preemptively run it through a compressor set to knock down those extreme peaks. Or you could use a limiter, although a compressor with the right settings would probably sound a little better.
4:37 i cant stop laughing xD
absolutely loved this tutorial!!!
Very helpful to someone just starting like me
Very accurate details on EQ. What about compression?
Search up the channel. Lots on compression.
This is a great video thanks!!
Great video!
You might turn that notch into a dynamic EQ. Then you can exaggerate a bit more without affecting the rest of the sound (between the down-strums) too much..
Thank you bro, really helps out!!
Thanks you for the guitar mixing tutorial. Less is more. I now understand!
Hello Joe, would u do a video on what Producers should look for when they receive a final mix and mastered wav from engineers? A checklist at a high level. There seems to be none on You Tube........All the videos created are for engineers. Some want just listening and judging skills as a Producer....
This is quality content. Helped me lot when mixing my band's latest tack 👍
Training yourself to hear these problems, how do you do that? Do you know from the start that a bass, drums, vocals etc typically has a problematic area in the EQ, or how do you adress it?
very helpful! also love your sound effects lol
So good... ty!
Hey Joe, you wonderful teacher of all things recording, mixing, mastering and producing, can you add guitar playing to that list? I play guitar and are always looking for ways to improve. Just in that few bars there of the guitar track you used I’m thinking “how is he doing that twiddly bit?” etc.. Could you do a video on some of your guitar playing techniques? Just a thought. Cheers
Cool idea, Geoff
When I set a guitar with piezo pickup, I cut the pickup resonance between 3 and 4 kHz and boost the treble above.
great video Joe. Can you make one where you explain compression on acoustic guitars in some situations? and also, really waiting for another mix together series :)
Yeah, I rarely use compression, but I'll do a video on it.
sounds pretty sweet. how do continue a melody. i only able to create 3-5 notes then the rest is some song that i heard some where.
I know this is an old video, but why not use an EQ compressor to reduce that frequency if it is only on down strums?
I thought would have warranted a reply
Very good tips bro!!!
What is this program called?
Awesome video, what the best way to record an electric acoustic guitar? Mic ? Cable straight to the interface and create an audio file? (I did the last one. and sound so weak!! )
Again, great. Question. I do not see nor can I find that side menu that allows me to "click" normalize" as you did early on. Can you send a note as to how do I access that? see a lot of other info, but not that.
Thanks 😊
helped a lot!! thanks! :)
Hi joe! I'm a big fan of your tutorials! You are one of the best teachers alive! Really :)) I'm a one man metal band. Recently working on my new EP. And your tutorials are helping me a lot. But I had a small question. Is that! In another video about Studio monitors you said. In the DAW its better to keep the Project volume level for mixing at -10DB but here you are mixing the acoustic song on a normal 0 DB ? May I know why is that ?
And once again thank you so much for your tutorials
holy fuck this was helpful!!!
Thanks for the simple, straightforward demonstration of mixing the acoustic guitar.
Unrelated question - do you ever use the Mixtool plugin on Studio One? I've been using Studio One for about a year, and just learned about that plugin a couple days ago. I applied it to a mix I am working on, and it was like someone turned on the lights in a dark room. As a Studio One user, I would like to see more demonstrations of the plugins that come with it.
Ahm, the Mixtool is just a gain knob! So I assume you just make your track louder and think it´s getting better...
I know it's just a gain knob, but now I no longer have to adjust the level on the soundwave. I was spending incredible amounts of time with gain staging, sometimes bypassing it altogether out of sheer frustration. New knowledge is always great, even if it is "just a gain knob".
Mixtool is super handy
What I was just thinking when you where speaking of not recording to loud was:
You have a given bit "deph" at which your sound is recorded. lets say 16 Bit (for CD).
So if you are recording at quiter levels you are not really using the whole range. thus your signal has not the best resolution it could have.
Correct me if I am worng here! Id like to know better. :D
Not using the full 16 bit range results in a little extra noise or hiss. As long as this is not audible it is no issue.
By the way I only record in 24 bit when my source is audible without many other sounds, and has quite parts. For instance a song with only guitar and vocal.
Bit depth is highly overrated.
Very helpful
Earthworks are masterpiece!
I do a lot of finger picking, and it can sound pretty dull/muddy. I sorta do what you do in the video
what is this mic who record that ?
its so clean already without nothing wow
Do you have a a voice edit video?
So is this stereo recording with 2 mics panned output to separate mono tracks panned hard left and right. Or a stereo out channel. Or out a mono channel?..
Interesting. I have to try the notch thing next time; that's new to me. Thanks for the tip!
Please don't stop the playback when switching between processed and unprocessed. It is much easier to hear the differences if there is no interruption and the track just plays on. Also, please do not _speak_ at the point of switching. Leave a few seconds to listen to the difference in the signal and _then_ speak. This pause almost completely resets my ears, especially with speech in between and I don't get any of the significant difference you are talking about.
Excellent video Joe. Does your EQ settings change between your Gibson and Taylor? Thank you!
Yep. But really it changes with every acoustic I mix. No two are the same.
yes! thanks
Thanks Joe
Hi Joe! Great video, may i know which sound recording you are using? Thanks
Would all this play into a live mix the same way im guessing?
I'm writing biker ballad for my first metal album, and acoustic just sounds weird in mix. Distorted rhythm guitars I always doubletrack. Solo I know where to place. But acoustic just sounds weird and not like in songs that I like
Thank you so much! Joe, tell me please, what is the guitar and what strings do you use in this video? It sounds very... soft. My guitar sounds more... higher and "angry" and I don't like it (Fender CD 60 + d'addario strings 10 - 50 standart tuning).
Can you help me..what pluggin do you use..
NIce vid!!
Man, love your video! Could I ask which technique you used for recording the guitar? Because it looks like it is stereo signal, but I don't know if you recorded it that way or just recorded mono, used some processing and bounced it to stereo. Thanks a lot for the answer!
Greetings from Czech Republic!
Most likely XY
Anyone have any advice for me. My acoustic guitar always sounds boomy and if I eq out some of the mids and lows then it just sounds thin. This is mostly noticeable when Im plucking the strings. Any help appreciated
Move the mic.
Sir please tell mixing acoustic guitar and vocals in protools...request from india!
Hi Joe. Do you know if youtube has its own eq because this track sounds like the high end has been reduced and the low end too?
Depending on if you watch it in full HD or not the encoding will sound a bit different.
I hear a ringing also
I've been watching all of your videos lately as I'm new to the mixing world. Perhaps this topic has been addressed elsewhere before or it's simply a matter of doing a better recording, but some of my older songs from over 10 years ago have a lot of gliss when moving up and down the fretboard on an acoustic guitar. Is there something that can be used to lessen this in the mix?
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Hi Joe, I'm trying to record some of my blues tracks, so I thought "ok, record rhythm with the strat, vocals, and some lead fills with the strat, that's it..." then I started thinking, wait, if I go that route I really should have drums, bass etc...right? So if I don't have drums, bass, etc, then recording rhythm on acoustic, then some lead fills with the strat....would be a better option, wouldn't it? :( I'm confused
This is a matter of arrangement. If your rhythm guitar is lightly or heavily distorted or crunchy, it will sound piercing and not so enjoyable by itself, without the drums, bass and other elements of orchestration. Strat clean rhythm alone could work with a not so crunchy blues solo. If you're unable to record real drums and bass, I could recommend installing drums and bass plugins on that work on midi, so you can program them to get them to play what you want. It never holds the place of the real thing but being able to at least hear some orchestration for your tracks could give you a motivational push.
But you could also record your rhythms on an acoustic and lay on top of it a nice, tastefully dialled strat tone.
For some reason I tend to feel that will sound better tonewise and give you a pleasant track to listen to.
It's a self evident fact that the best way to decide which method sounds better is to try and see it for yourself. No single person around the globe can give you a specifically tailored recipe that will make your recordings better. You are the one that's in the room in which you're recording. You're the one playing the specific guitar that you have in your hands. You're the one going for a variety of ideas to work on. Don't confuse. Nobody learned arrangement or mixing in their mother's womb (this is a direct translation of how it's said in my native language) :)
Always spend time on trying new things and never have a day without music.
there is a better way to fix that, I figured out 2 months ago, just do automation on certain wave peaks.
only automating fader little bit without using Eq.
What software is this?
There is a very harch frequenzy stiking out in the top end and you didn´t cut it. It annoyed me a little