In my search for the ultimate lead tone I turned to R.U.Serious' amazing Bogner Shiva lead profile.
However something has been bugging me in my quest. I find that the warm and juicy mid range frequencies needed for the lead tones I hear in my head, reside in the ~400-800K region. So that's where my aim is.
Typically after a week of tone tweaking I will record the solo I had in mind. All fine up to this point.
But THEN - when mixing.. The first thing I will realize is that the lower midrage I worked so hard for, eats up precious space in the mix. So instinctively I will cut a lot of it away from the lead guitar track
But this time around - I did differently and I slapped on a multiband compressor on the backing track to tame the low midrange region. So I let the lead guitar take up a lot of space in the mix, and I think this can be well heard in the crunchy string rakes in this video. In my world guitarists should always get the last word.
I would be really grateful for feedback here. And what are your tricks to preserve midrange warmth without compromising other instruments in the mix?
edit:
I got the request to share the rig, so here it is:https://drive.google.com/file/…Ry4ZcRG42cmN6V2xiUU0/view
You might want to try it with a humbucker guitar, I used both bridge and neck pickups with the S-1 switch engaged.
I hope you enjoy my improvisation: