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hello Jordan here from hardcore music
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studio calm in this video I'm going to
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show you how to fix a muddy guitar tone
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using the classic Andy Sneap c4 setting
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for the ways c4 plugin so a common
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problem with heavy distorted guitars
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especially in you know rock and metal
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music is the Pamyu it's right they tend
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to build up the low end and the low mids
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and kind of a nasty way they can kind of
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really just swell and take over the mix
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and make it sound like you've got a
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muddy tone when maybe everything else
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you know we needs not playing pond meets
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sounds totally fine so how do we address
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this in the mix well it's very very
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simple here let me show you just one
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section in this song where we've got
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some pom mutes happening
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Music]
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lots of heavy chucks here with you know
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lots of low-end building up you can even
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see it in the waveform you can see the
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the spikes here when he's hitting the
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palm you
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[Music]
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so we're just gonna focus on this c4
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plug-in so this is a multiband
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compressor this one is by ways but if
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you've got something by another brand
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that's totally fine it just has to be a
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multiband compressor so the c4 setting
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it's incredibly incredibly simple so let
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me reset this and by the way I've got
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I've got these rhythm guitar tracks
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grouped here so everything I do on one
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of these left or right tracks is gonna
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show up on the same plug-in on the other
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one as well so just so you know as I'm
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adjusting this plug-in on the left side
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it's gonna happen for the right side as
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well so let's bypass this and just see
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the raw well not the right tone because
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we have all these other plugins but
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without the c4 here so especially right
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here when he's doing these Chuck's you
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can really hear the low-end build up
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starting to sound a little money there
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so we're gonna control that using the
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c-4 plugin so let me actually get rid of
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this plug-in first so let's load it up
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again okay now here's the thing this
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plug-in is loading up with just the
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factory default so nothing is set here
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already I'd actually don't even have
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this saved as a preset because it's
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incredibly simple I don't change
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anything except for I bypass all the
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bands except for the low mid where I
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want to actually affect so for money
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pomade guitars you know they're gonna be
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between probably a hundred and you know
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maybe up to four hundred Hertz but
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probably around the 250 300 range so
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let's change this to 350 so now I've
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adjusted the bandwidth here so this
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compressor is only gonna act within this
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range from 92 Hertz to about 350
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everything else is going to ignore but
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just when that specific frequency range
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exceeds the threshold it's gonna
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compress it down so I don't change any
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of the other settings you know the
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attack and release it's all fine I'm
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happy with how it sounds for guitars
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here so now we're just gonna play this
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section and then we're just gonna adjust
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the threshold down until we're getting
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the amount of compression we want
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[Music]
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so right away off the bat you know just
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it's doing a fair bit there let's listen
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to a B so here's without and then I'll
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put it away in with
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[Music]
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so you can see how that's already
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sounding a lot cleaner there let's just
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play with it a little more I'll kind of
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go extreme and then I'll back it up to
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kind of where I would normally want to
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have it
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[Music]
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so let's ad again
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[Music]
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so I'm I'm exaggerating here I'm just
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trying to emphasize what this plug-in is
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doing I think that's actually doing a
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little bit too much there the thing is
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you don't want to totally suck that out
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because that's part of what makes a
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pomade sound like a Pamyu right you
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don't want to make it sound like Aflac
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it's our tone that's never being played
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differently he is palming and you want
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that to come across there should be a
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little bit of extra added low-end when
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that happens that's what makes it sound
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heavy so you don't want to suck at all
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that like I was just doing there if you
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really want to set it so that the bulk
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of the normal guitar plane in the song
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is not getting touched by this plugin
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but then when he hits those big chugs or
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the the parts in the song where the low
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ones really building up then you want it
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to kick in and then leave the rest of
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the tone alone so let's try and dial
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that in
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[Music]
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that's a little better you can see it's
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barely moving on these normal port parts
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here
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see how it really kicked in on those
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Chuck's there
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really here that buildup right there
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let's put it back in
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so we still get a little bit of
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chunkiness from the chugs but it's not
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kind of overwhelming and it's not
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sounding muddy it's just you know giving
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a little bit actually pushing this
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plugin is just controlling that swell so
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it's not too crazy so I like where
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that's sitting right there so that's it
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all you got to do with this plugin is
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bring it up don't worry about any of the
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other settings hit bypass on everything
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except for the low mid band here adjust
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the frequency usually end up with this
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around 350 but you know if you have
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something that's a little lower in the
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range and you can adjust that as well
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then you just tweak the threshold so
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that the bulk of the tone is untouched
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and then just when it hits those big
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swelly
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low-end chug parts then you want the
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compressor to kick in and dip it down
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and the reason this is so powerful is
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because the other option to deal with
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kind of the low end or the low mid
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muddiness and heavy guitars like this is
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to use an EQ so you could pull up any
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key like this you know set it around 250
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[Music]
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so right there we've we've got rid of
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the low-end build up from the chugs but
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we've also ruined the rest of the tone
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right when he's not chugging you know
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we've made it sound thin by just doing a
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once-and-for-all
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dip out in the low-mid so we don't want
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to do that that's why the c4 or a
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multiband compressor in the low mids
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here is super powerful that for guitars
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like this because it's only gonna work
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on those problem spots you'd almost
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think of it as a dynamic EQ it's almost
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like an EQ that's dipping it down only
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when necessary so hopefully that helps
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hopefully that's a really clear demo of
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the Andy Sneap c4 setting you might see
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people throwing around that term online
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this is how it's done and this is how
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you can control the muddiness from pom
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unity guitars in your mixes without you
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know ruining the tone with the big EQ
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