Originally Posted by: SLYI don't know what are you arguing for , you've already made your point clear in your previous post ... [/QUOTE]

What I'm arguing against is the "myth of scooped mids", hell, you could even say I'm on a crusade against scooped mids. I keep going to gig after gig, cringing from hearing the awfully painful guitarsounds from guitarists who don't know what they're doing. I figure if I can talk some sense in to some of em on here, I've made this world a better place. ;-)
A lot of guitarists listen to an album, and think a guitar has its mids scooped because of the way the mix of an entire band sounds. This is a very common and understandable mistake for untrained ears. But in reality things are very different.
Equalization is more a matter of physics than it is about preference. Some things work, some thing don't, it's as simple as that.

[QUOTE=SLY]If heaviness comes from making the guitar,bass,drums work as a team , could we conclude then that slow rock bands sound heavy , or they don't play as teams ? :confused:

This is not at all what I was implying. What is was implying is that heaviness in a band does not come from overly heavy sounding guitars. You looked at my statement from the perspective of a musician, as if I was saying something about how well a band plays together as musicians. My statement, however, was made from the perspective of a mixing engineer, saying something about how well each instruments frequency response mixes/compliments/blends with the other instruments.
It may be a surprise to you, but a guitarsound that works best to get a massive sound as a band will probably sound remarkably disappointing just by itself. Whereas a massive guitarsound (the stuff that sounds so good playing by yourself in your bedroom) most of the time is not what works best in a band situation.
So yeah, tuning down might make a guitar sound "heavy," but it's not a guarantee for sounding "heavy" as a band since you'll still get lost in the mix if your eq'ing is off.

Anyway, SLY, I know I keep going on and on about this, but I only do because I know I have a good point. But I guess you can't really judge the validity of someone's advice on here since there is no way to check the background of someone's knowledge. Some metal head who's only been playing for 1 year will probably have different advice than someone who's been playing for 10+ years, has played in bands of many styles of music, has experience in recording as a musician, recording-, mixing-, mastering engineer,... Who's advice is more likely to be effective? I guess we'll never know... :rolleyes: