Here’s all of what I have done for my mix.
A lot of this is to do with balancing out the low an high end, the exciter is meant to add harmonics to a track and the SubBass is to boost the low end, same with Phat FX, but that has lots of compression and gain settings involved too.
For the rhythm guitar EQ the mids sounded slightly off. the amp made it so that the EQ made a bigger difference so I dropped the mids by a bit to make it sound less rocky and more of the inbetween tone of light distortion that I wanted. This first rhythm was kind of a backup sound to make the rhythm sound fuller so I emphasised bass a little by messing with the Phat FX.
The bass EQ was because the low end was way too low and the middle dip was because that was where an awful lot of twangyness was because I was playing too close to the frets, so I tried to fix that.
The main rhythm part is where I wanted most of the rocky high end to come from so the EQ is raised a bit in that high end with a little dip in the middle because of a little bit of fret noise.
Lead EQ was the most difficult because the original DI sound was blunt and sharp, not what I wanted. the low end was too present as I wanted bright but not sharp. Lots of the sound for the lead came from the amp settings which were high treble and mids with low bass, with a british box set-up and mic placement that made it sound clearer.
There are two kick tracks because one is to try emphasise the impact and the other is the standard one. This was difficult because the recording sounded awful with no impact and a dull bass sound so the EQ for the first one focuses on impact and the other on levelled low end.
I wanted the snare to be bright so the EQ has a lot of high end and a lift for impact on the mid lows where the stick hits the snare. Everything has an expand effect on because it was all too quiet because of the way it was recorded.
I used presets on the toms because they sounded best with that and I didnt want to change much.
Overheads are exactly the same and the EQ is to boost the kick because no impact comes from the kick mic and the high end to brighten up with cymbals.
The acoustic sounded okay through the zoom mic but it was hard to reduce noise with using that specific guitar, that’s why I added noise gates. the EQ just boosts the mids because they were dull before and the high end sounded great so they went up too.
I tried to fade out the acoustic guitars because I played double of what I needed each take just so I could get a good take, and I was told it was easy to fade out anyway.
The rhythm guitar is all over the place because I used the amp sound to record and the amp was noisy, so I faded out the start bits. Later on it wasn’t so much of an issue.