can you smooth out grainy distortion in the mix?

[shooto]

inquiring mind wants to know-

thanks

[Cirrus]

It depends. Do you have any clips?

[rob2001]

I'd say you can change the character of the distortion (assuming you are talking about a distorted guitar tone) by tweeking the upper mids and highs, maybe some subtle compression.

It's not really changing it, more like filtering what is heard, or not heard.

[Floyd Eye]

Yes, but you'd better do it in rehearsal. My guitar player recently got a distortion pedal so he could avoid having to change channels on his amp ( short footswitch cables). He set it up playing by himself. First gig with it, first song, voila Bass guitar disappeared.

[shooto]

recording has already been done, so the tweaking has to happen in the mixdown...tracks cut great with the upper mids...maybe some lower mids and a touch of bottom to bring it together?

[smithguitars]

Also try re-amping/plugin through a distroto-box with smooth characteristics and low gain. I often effect a particular range of freq space with different effects/plugs. But I use Adobe Audition, don't know of any other DAW that does that--maybe RX?