If possible, then I'd like to know how it's done. Again, I'm aware this is subjective.
Obviously mindlessly adding one instrument after another or overdoing reverb will backfire and only degrade the mix even more.
Can you achieve a full mix with few instruments?
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The amount of successful bands which have consisted of bass, guitar, drums and vocals says yes, and with the right playing you can easily "fill the mix" with one or two instruments.
Distortion is a good way to fill the sound up, as are vocoders and filters etc. Modulators such as chorus' and phasers will add a lot to the sound, particularly if they have stereo width controls. Reverb can work but that isn't its purpose so it can be a bit odd for some styles.
It's dependent on what you are doing really, as to what the obvious choice for this would be.
Distortion is a good way to fill the sound up, as are vocoders and filters etc. Modulators such as chorus' and phasers will add a lot to the sound, particularly if they have stereo width controls. Reverb can work but that isn't its purpose so it can be a bit odd for some styles.
It's dependent on what you are doing really, as to what the obvious choice for this would be.
Yep, in that case you just let the guitar take up almost the whole frequency spectrum.
With a lot of instruments, it's more about what you CUT from certain instruments instead of what you ADD.
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Well, yeah. That's why guitars have so many strings, to cover the whole spectrum.
Nobody want to hear the vocals anyhow.
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Just listen to Martin Hannett's production of pretty much any Joy Division track.
OSX Ventura / 12 / https://soundcloud.com/deliberate
... and there are songs with just the voice and nothing else!
You can achieve a full mix with a single synth bass
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