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Old 12-30-2018, 06:54 PM
Gordon Currie Gordon Currie is offline
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Since I often do multitrack recordings, my workflow is a little different (even when I do a solo guitar).

On each track, I open it in a wave editor and do pop/click cleanup as needed. I will often raise the gain a bit if I feel like the levels are unusually low. If there is extraneous steady state noise I may do noise reduction. All these changes are saved into the file.

For EQ, stereo width, effects I apply them as FX within my multitrack DAW. I do not write them to the file (equivalent to printing effects in the analog tape world) so that I have ultimate flexibility later to adjust an EQ or reverb.

Acoustic guitar ALWAYS gets a highpass filter of some sort. Combining acoustic guitar and other instruments tends to build up in the bass/low mid range area, and it is critical (for me)to keep things from getting muddy by constant use of high pass filters.

I like to use reverb as an aux send (global) effect. This is because I like to hear a consistent reverb sound as opposed to one reverb for guitar, another for voice, another for keys etc.
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