Originally Posted by Gruner ➡️

Here's the thing.

If your sound makes sense live, meaning the guitars occupy different spaces nice enough to compliment each other and compliment the vox, then your job should be to simply capture with the mic what you do live.

Seems like if when you record you aren't getting a mixable sound that makes sense, then your live sound is the problem. Like the arrangement needs to be thought out better. I've never matched amps in a band. We just made sure we played different styles of sounds adjacent to the other player, not on top of them or copying them. Unless a matched sound is what you are after.

The other thing I've seen is that guitars players use WAY too much gain/distortion when recording. It compresses the signal so much that the WAV turns into a tumorous mass in the mix. I played Mesa amps that are like this on the hi-gain settings. Just a suggestion, but you might try backing off the grit and see if it gives you more dynamics to work with. Use reference tracks so you don't force the guitars to the front. Guitar players will do this, because we tend to think that every song is a guitar-driven song. And you have a voting majority of two guitar players in your band! Let the bass player mix.