New gigger

[ajay944]

Hi Guy's & girls, I'm relatively new to doing solo gigs. I play rhythm guitar with back trax using a faily powerful amplified mixer and set of decent speakers. I'm faced with 2 problems: 1) When I'm playing normal chords the higher notes tend to sound a little overpowering and quite frankly irritating to the ear. It's not so bad using barre chords. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Secondly is there a rule of thumb to set the volume levels of the back tracks/guitar and vocals?

[Tiny]

hi ajay
are you using an elecric guitar or elctro acoustic
it could be possible that the treble or the mid range
is set to high try lowering these could take the
piercing from higher strings.... ok mate rgd,s tiny ;D

[ajay944]

Hi Tiny, thks for your prompt reply...I'm using a electro-accoustic and I'll keep trying the settings.

[Tiny]

hi gen ajay
most electro acoustic,s have a eq on guitar try these
if you have them c ya Tom ;D

[thingyy]

Could be to do with the frequencies of the open strings.Downtune a semi-tone and use a capo.