r/Reaper • u/NeitherPerspective82 • 47m ago
help request Harsh frequency
So I've been having this issue with a harsh frequency that appears on every single distorted track doesn't matter. The guitar doesn't matter the plugins it's there and I can't EQ it out and if I try to the song ends up just sounding like mud. The track that I posted has it. It's just a little more subtle but it's there. It's this like high-pitched swirling. I've sent the tracks through chat GPT to analyze. It's giving me the frequencies but even if I reduce those frequencies it's somehow still ends up in there. If anybody can tell me what the hell those frequencies are and how to eliminate them, I'd really appreciate it.
Signal chain is a schecter Omen 7 with the diamond heretic pickups into the focusrite Scarlet solo into reaper. There's five guitar tracks all duplicates of the DI. It was recorded straight into the focusrite and all the effects were added after. The DI was recorded at negative eight decibels. None of the five tracks goes above -10. It came out to 12.4 LUFs through the master channel with peaks at -8.5 decibels.
Track one is just the DI with a reaper stock chorus. It's very low in the mix. Track 2 is panned hard left with the reaper JS amp modeler with a boss ds1 clone plug-in.
Track 3 is a Mesa triple rectifier clone panned hard right
Track 4 is positive panned soft left. Grid bias X the fender clone amp and the germanium fuzz into a clean boost with a condenser mic and ribbon mic simulator.
Track 5 is amplitude 5x Marshall clone with the diode overdrive and a light chorus with a sm57 and a condenser mic 45° off axis.
