Folk Fingerstyle Acoustic guitar/vocals mixing ideas
Hi guys,
I know everyone on here has different ways to mix, so I wanted to start off a thread to get different opinions on my new project. I write folk style music with mainly just finger style acoustic guitar, vocals and some tracks include some La Session Strings cello and some tracks have harmonica.
I use Sonar X1, I have all the Waves plug ins, Mercury bundle. I have watched quite a few tutorials on mixing acoustic guitars and vocals, and I wanted to get users ideas here on what they use.
With my current set up, I like to keep it quite simple, with two acoustic guitar tracks, panned hard left and hard right, using the same recording of 1 acoustic guitar. I route the acoustic tracks to one reverb bus, that I also use for vocals.
I also have the vocal track sent to a delay bus and the one reverb bus.
Now, here are some of my questions I'd like to share for you helpful guys.
1. Should I use the same reverb bus for acoustic guitar and vocals, as I've heard that using the same reverb, you get the mix sounding like it's all in the same room.
2. Which reverb plug ins does everyone like to use, I currently have Lexicon reverb plug in too.
3. Which plug ins and chains does everyone like to use.
Any other tips would be great. I also want to ask you all about using too much/too little compression on acoustic guitars as I want to keep my acoustic tracks very dynamic as it's folk style, and I don't use many instruments, so therefore there is a lot of space in my mixes.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
Tones..