To be specific. The instuments use both the same frequencies and some frequencies that are close by. There is minimal usage of farther frequencies.
There are 3 instruments of concern. They seem like they are competing over the same frequencies. They are placed on opposite sides. The 3rd cant be placed in the middle because i dont want to interfere with drums and bass. So i have to put it on either the far left or right.
I honestly hope it would work in the middle but i havent started engineering the bass and drums yet.
I dont believe it would work but i dont know.
The instrument uses mostly brighter frequencies and is saturated with delay.
Aragement has to be already correctly builded. No metter if 2, 3, 10 instruments sounds in one frequency. When you are adding next one you can hear if it sounds fine or not with previous instruments or sounds .
You can’t mix a bad aragrnent but you don’t have to spend a lot of time to mixing if your aragement is great. Find nice sounds from scratch
Many instruments can use the same frequencies. What do you mean by sounding perfectly clear together? Do the instruments have the same or different scores? Is it the main melody, countermelodies or both? Are the timbres similar or distinct? A violin and a flute can play in the same register and still be very distinct.
Using panorama is a good strategy, but not necessarily necessary, it depends. Adequate compression and reverb can help place the instruments in the mix or muddy them up further.
Your question involves a lot of parameters and possibilities. Very difficult to judge this without knowing or hearing the context.
You’re not being that specific though. I mean, are we talking about cello, accordion, flute, drums and bass?.. Rhodes, harp, trombone, drums and bass? Are they playing all melodies? Same melody? Some are rhythm instruments? Same rhythm?
Your best bet if you don’t want to share more is to find music you really like in the same genre and listen to how that was mixed and try to do the same as a start.
Back in the days when I mixed music I typically started with balancing the drum kit and then added bass to get the rhythmic and harmonic centers done, and then added things around that according to what was important. If it was vocal driven then vocal was probably next, and if it was loud rock then electric guitars was before vocals.
My two points is that a) it all depends on the song, and b) you can absolutely have things live together in the center with drums and bass. If you were to listen to great mixes of the past and soloed individual instruments then they probably often wouldn’t sound “great”. But they sound great in the mix.
As others have indicated, a lot will depend on context, such as whether the instruments are playing the same part or different parts, all of which need to come through clearly.
If it’s the same parts, I’d tend to treat it as components of the sound/texture and might be inclined to pan them similarly (or not – it just depends on what I’m shooting for on the width front with the specific composite sound). But I’d also be inclined to use EQ on each one to highlight key parts of each sound while pulling back on those same areas of the other sounds. If there aren’t really highlights for each individual sound, then I might just randomly pick bands to highlight/pull back for each of the sounds just to get the various parts coming through a bit more in different places.
If, on the other hand, the instruments each need to stand out due to playing different, and important parts, beyond the same sort of EQ considerations, which would be equally applicable, I’d be more likely to use panning to place each instrument on the soundstage. I only rarely use hard left/hard right/center panning, so it’s not like I’d need to put any of the three instruments in the center if there isn’t a reason to want one there (e.g. a main lead instrument). For true stereo instruments, I usually use the stereo panner, so I can also have different widths for different instruments if that is helpful, so that could also be useful for balancing the overall stereo field with an odd number of instruments.
If the instruments are playing different parts, another thing that can sometimes be helpful is using dynamic EQ that is sidechained from any instrument that is more important, so that EQ subtractions on the less important instruments only kick in when the more important instrument is active. (I’m mainly using that for vocals, but it can work for other lead instruments.)
All that said, as others have mentioned, if you really need multiple instruments to be clear in a mix when playing together, arrangement of the notes they are playing and when they are playing those notes will make things a lot easier.
Hi, you can use Cutoff in Autofilter with LP24 or HP24 to sound a instrument more high or low frequentie.
Left and Right is panning, so frequenties for sounds play together at the same time, you can use filters.
Even with automation.
In HALion and Other instruments, the Cutoff Filter and the EQ both can change the frequenty in the sound you are listing to, and in HALion, after you load an instrument, you can set effects under inserts, and the buttons you can see under Auto Filter in HALion, is the Cutoff Button the one.
You can set it to different pass, with HP and LP.
And you can chose a distortion type as wel.
Or you change the frequenty with an EQ, left and right has nothing to do with frequenty, that is how high or low you want to sound.
Just like in a reverb you can cut high and low frequenty.
Play with those buttons till you think it is good.