That outside the club effect

I'm working on this track and I got these two layers of blues guitar on it, but it's completely taking over the song, drowning out the main sample. My goal is to give it that muffled smoking a cigarette outside the club sound, make it so the main sample is just barley drowning the blues guitar out. Anybody got suggestions?

ppreciate it .

If you literally wanted an 'outside the club' sound, you could use something like Speakerphone which blends a bit of filtering with psychoacoustics to achieve a realistic sound.

I'm sure standard filtering will be fine though.

The guitar is in the higher notes so it just never occurred to me.

Coz wrote:If you literally wanted an 'outside the club' sound, you could use something like Speakerphone which blends a bit of filtering with psychoacoustics to achieve a realistic sound.

I'm sure standard filtering will be fine though.

Yeah, I was thinking about that cause I gotta record that blues stomping by mic anyway.

yeah you just isolate the lows. what you hear outside of a club is the sound of walls vibrating which is low frequencies.

It's basicly a low pass filter that booms the bass, but shuts off any high or mid frequencies. I'm not a total expert on Mpc's, but if you have a low pass filter in yours, then you'll want to experiment on it with your blues guitar to muffle it just a bit so that it doesn't overtake the samples you want to hear with it.

If you don't have any filters, there are a few options to consider.

Korg Kaoss pads are able to give you low/mid/hi pass filters, plus reverbs, compression, flang/phase, etc.

Moog has a lovely MF-101 and a MF-105M that has a creamy low pass filter, or a mutli-band filter that you can sequence to midi if you want. There's a old Joe Walsh track "Life's been good to me so far", and in the bridge, you hear this funky synth/filter part in the 3rd minute of the song. The MF105M can get you that effect with it's multi sliders.

There's a few guitar pedals that give you low pass filters, and that's another thing you could try.