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>     One is, I mentioned here before about this, that it was a real 
eye opener for me to play with EQ with my guitar in the mix. I got 
the guitar (in the song at my site called "shot in the dark" at  
http://home.online.no/~jacker ) to where I wanted it while adjusting 
EQ and all on my effects pedal while playing little riffs in the mix. 
My main point is, I wasn't soloing it, but adjusting a little, 
playing, adjusting, playing.... The guitar in that solo, I got 
exactly the guitar sound I was after. Mixed it down and was mostly 
done with the song. Some months later I was listening to the mix 
again, and for the first time I accidentally solo'ed the guitar 
solo...I heard it alone, not in the mix. MAAN....what a terrible 
sounding guitar that was. I assumed I had picked some take or other 
that I had not used, but found out that that terrible screeching 
guitar, when I brought up the rest of the mix suddenly sounded sweet 
and just right. Sat there and played with it and played with it, and 
it was amazing, without being in the mix, it just sounded thin and 
broke up all the time, bring up the mix and it sounded like butter!  
So how you want to set it really depends on if you are going to 
feature the one instrument sound or if it will be playing with other 
instruments. I am thinking about making a small MP3 of that guitar 
soloed and letting people hear the difference, it is that drastic.


Jim - I would like to hear that before and after mp3. Thanks.

Jerry