Chihiro’s song

This is a Project my brother and I did. He plays guitar and had a song idea, so I recorded, comped, and mixed his song-which is all played on guitar.
He wanted the tone of the guitar to be similar to the band Hum’s guitar sound, so I mimicked that with the same mics, mic’ing, techniques, and post-processing as they use.
I did a second mix with vocals that I recorded, prerecorded drums, and a programmed midi bass.
Down below are images of the mic placement, arrangement on my DAW, and plugin settings.

Plugin settings

I automated a low cut on the rhythm guitar when the drums come in. I also sidechained some compression on the bass from the kick’s signal because they both had similar prominent frequencies that I wanted to keep in the mix, but it sounded too muddy with both playing full volume at the same time.

The vocalist sang with a lower-softer voice. I filtered out some of those frequencies from the rhythm guitar and kick to enhance them. I used a little bit of pitch correction and a multiband compressor to get those low mids in control.
The counter melody guitar sounded pretty patchy and inconsistent, so I compressed it with a threshold on -14 dB and a ratio of 2:1. I also added some reverb and a low cut.
To achieve the guitar-sound my brother wanted, I used heavy distortion and EQing on multiple guitar tracks. It didn’t need any compression because the signal was already smooshed from the amp during recording.