James Valentine

In this article, James says: Clever use of plug-ins such as FilterFreak can make a guitar fit the mix.

The d2 was used for the distorted guitar on "Makes Me Wonder", as stated by producer/mix Ming engineer Mark Endert in this September 2007 Sound on Sound interview.

“The distorted guitars are not featured in the track, but we needed them in the choruses to make it sound like Maroon 5. Something didn’t feel right, however, and I duplicated the distorted guitar tracks to separate tracks, and offset them by an eighth note later in time, filtered them to eliminate the bottom end and took out a lot of mid with the Focusrite D2, and then brought that back in separate faders. I mixed that in behind the original guitars and for some reason it sounded much fuller and also much cleaner, because it wasn’t a real delay. With just one filtered repeat the distorted guitars immediately sounded bigger, whereas when I tried outboard delays with repeats, it sounded too crowded and washy."