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Carl King
GuitarTricks Video Director
Joined: 10/08/07
Posts: 466
Carl King
GuitarTricks Video Director
Joined: 10/08/07
Posts: 466
06/22/2020 9:36 pm
Originally Posted by: PhillipBD

The "powers that be" @GT, please fix the mixes in the "Full Performance" videos of newly released song lessons.

The GT "Full Performance" mixes used to have a great balance with the guitars and all the other instruments, drums, and vocals. Lately, it sounds like a high-school intern is mixing the "Full Performance" where you barely hear the singer and other instruments.

One example (of recent many): Love Somebody by Rick Springfield (taught, great as usual, by Mike Olekshy)

Please return to the balanced mixes for songs during their "Full Performance" videos that you used to have. It helps the GT student to simulate and evaluate his/her guitar performance of a newly-learned song in a simulated band context.

Thanks,

Phillip

Hey Phillip,

Thank you for the feedback on this.

The Full Performance mixes are mixed with the vocals lower, so that they won't get in the way of the guitar parts. Those are not intended to be typical album mixes for listening. Guitar track clarity is the goal. Maybe someday we'll be able to set up interactive mixes, and then everyone can have the mix they want. :)

If you want to simulate and evaluate your guitar performance in a band context, we make Jam Along videos with the guitars muted, at the end of each song tutorial.

I hope that helps. I'll also forward this up the chain of command, so thank you.

-Carl.


Carl King[br]GuitarTricks Video Director / Producer