How To Easily Mix Metal Guitars.

Mixing guitars in a genre as dense with instrumentation as Death Metal can be difficult, but hopefully these few tricks I'm going to show you help you get your guitar tone sitting perfectly in the mix admist blast beats and bellowing vocals.

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[Metal-lztd]

I'm probably in a minority, but I'm way more interested in this type of video than endless gear demos. It's something anyone can learn and apply with stuff they already have and use rather than just demos of so much stuff there's no way anyone could even use all of it even if they somehow managed to obtain and keep it all.

[BrandonSills]

definitely some insightful information out of this video in terms of how you do things. hella solid. interested to see how the approach be done with other guitar tones surrounding death metal.

[Betongtempel]

This is great, bought this NAM-pack a few days after release! Love it and that it does something a bit more dirty than all the endless NDSP's. Great tutorial!

[RaVirrTheTrader]

Sorry downstairs neighbors. Danley's uploaded again, and these speakers gotta be cranked.

[mikeham]

Turn the gain all the way up. More gain = more metal. Take the mids completely out of the equation. Turn the bass all the way up. Bingo, metal.

[Valkyriexproject]

Is there a video that precedes this that shows us all the plugins you loaded on before the NAM infomercial?

[Durkhead]

Those clean tones might sound good blended in with the distortion track

[stcenturymetal]

The ssl eq is my all time favorite. I use the P.A. version gives it “that sound”. Great video

[matdube]

Great vid Taylor! Continue your good work!

[carriongaming]

The intro bit you showed reminded me a lot of Homicidal Retribution by Dying Fetus. So you get a 5/5 from me.

[MetalPredo]

I also think that a good option for killer death metal tones is to make a blend between a tight, "modern" tone and a swedish death metal hm2 tone, you can use the plugins in parallel so you don't have to use 2 tracks for each guitar recording (or you can use 2 tracks for each tone and for each side and do the quad track recording)

[smeemusic]

Nam has been a mix saver in my house yo!

[CodyBarnette-GNARK]

Death metal is one of those genres when mixing you want it to be a muddy, yet clear as you can. At least for that old school sound. Very thick and scooped

[bradchervel]

Glad to see you back, looks like that cold took a bit of weight out of you.

[death_metal_dad]

This mix almost sounds like the last two Cannibal records. Bringin' the BROOTS!!!

[Redraptor]

Taylor you should check out the boss katana go it seems right up the alley of stuff you do little amp modelers

[danieljackson]

Great video. On my way to go download this now.

[needsLITHIUM]

Maybe it's me, but I feel like having one of the guitars be the one you chose, and the other be one of the HM-2 blend style tones, would have been fun. I've always been more of a "different tones for the left and right" kinda guy. I usually like to blend different tones for the left and right, where I'll have 3 different tones, one that is used for both the left and the right, and then one different tone for each side. These days, at least one of those tones tends to be chainsaw, or some kind of distortion pedal or pedal combination, just something that will make the sound super dense and a bit more unique.

[bluntforcstudios]

Just wondering Taylor, I usually double track each guitar, what do u do / recommend ?

[joshuaallenzurbano]

Good day sir, how did you split the high from the lows of the bass? Are you using EQ?