Hi,
Recently I posted an item where I had a significant win in overcoming the Muddy Mix...
(HERE)But I've found an additional approach which is another step forward in achieving a clear sounding mix when reviewed on multiple speaker systems.
I guess the pro's already know about this, but this place is a forum mainly for the home studio muso always eager to find improvements to technique, and this is what I've found.
Being a composer and singer of primarily Ballads with acoustic guitar as the main instrument, and also having a voice in the lower registers, I found that some vocal notes would sound odd when the same note was playing on the guitar.
The use of the High Pass filter has been great, and I normally slide the cutoff frequency upwards until there's a nice balance on my 3 speaker systems as mentioned earlier.
However, with some songs, this clash of lower register vocal notes is sometimes tricky. I have been sliding the cutoff frequency upwards to reduce this clash of vocal & guitar notes. But then I found I was losing bass tone from the vocal by having to push the cutoff frequency to far up.
So I then bought it down to a point where you might say it's too boomy and should have more bass reduction, but I incorporated a notch on the Boomy frequency by the use of a Dynamic EQ plugin.
(Tokyo Dawn's NOVA EQ).
So, I have successfully reduced the clash of vocal/guitar, and preserved some nice bass components to the vocal by pulling back the cutoff frequency of the HPF, and adding a dynamic notch at the appropriate frequency.
Cheers,
Adrian.
PS: NOVA Dynamic EQ is awesome and FREE!... (and a new version was released mid November 2016)