How to Prevent Guitar Track from getting Exhausting/Boring

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fritsthegirl said:
Have you tried track colours? Red makes vocals less boring, and a bright blue makes an otherwise really boring guitar track great. Yellow, green & orange will also work but can be annoying if you are colour blind. Definitely do not go for not brown or grey. LOL, I've experimented with these two colours quite a bit, but they just made it MORE boring.
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Brilliant!!
Pure genius... :D
 
hellstens said:
Copy the track in two pan full L+R delay one track 20ms and listening together withe the voice Now the guitar sound much better!
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It doesn't sound better than just playing the part twice and pan L & R. And it doesn't take a whole lot longer to record a 2nd guitar track. Copy/Delay/Pan sucks. It sounds fake.
 
"Highly regarded" by whom? And why is it "highly regarded"? Will it be "highly regarded" in the future, or is that just a thing of the past?
 
PTravel said:
:D

Could someone tell me how to write non-boring music? I'd like it to be more interesting and not so annoying. I use instruments and sing.
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all you have to do is make sure your audience takes some acid!

Try it ..... it really works!!!!



:)
 
If a guitar part is boring and it is just used to support, I would side chain it. Maybe with a bass or drums. That would at least give it some groove. You could put in a midi track, put an arpeggio effect on it and use that.

For those of us with less talent, we have to make up for it some way. :eek:
 
hellstens said:
Copy the track in two pan full L+R delay one track 20ms and listening together withe the voice Now the guitar sound much better!
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Bad advice. Don't do this. Ever.

Play the part twice, but with a "boring" track, even that might just make it twice as boring.
 
Sounds like this!

L:Copy the track in two pan full L+R delay one track 20ms and listening together withe the voice Now the guitar sound much better!
R: Copy the track in two pan full L+R delay one track 20ms and listening together withe the voice Now the guitar sound much better!

I'm in stereo!

lol.
 
fritsthegirl said:
Have you tried track colours? Red makes vocals less boring, and a bright blue makes an otherwise really boring guitar track great. Yellow, green & orange will also work but can be annoying if you are colour blind. Definitely do not go for not brown or grey. LOL, I've experimented with these two colours quite a bit, but they just made it MORE boring.
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Now you're talking!

I have a set color pallette for my DAW tracks I use all the time. Then when I mix out to a console, I even mark the channel strip of each channel with the same color marker.
It just makes it easier to spot your tracks in the DAW and at the console...and I also try to keep the same order of tracks.

Ain't nothin' new....set up a track template and stick to it as much as possible....it helps with eye-strain having things like that, you can spot stuff at a glance insteasd of always looking/checking as to what's what.
 
I was serious about using track colors....but not to make the audio less boring. :D
 
Make the guitar do something different on every verse, so as to build the song.

RB
 
RAMI said:
All that's missing is him telling me my music isn't as good as Springsteen's, which is completely ridiculous and fale. I write way better music than that phony pseudo-Americana, wrapped in an American flag bullshit. No offense, Steenamaroo. :)


Wait, that came put wrong. I didn't mean "no offense Steen" because of Steen's music. I meant it because Steen, in his never ending effort to pacify and be nice to people, actually agreed with him that my music isn't as good as Springsteen's and gave me a "no offense Rami". That's what I meant by "no offense Steen". :)
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LOL. I happened upon this and was like, wtf did I do?

Ha, I vaguely remember saying that because his comparison was ridiculous and irrelevant.

FWIW, I don't even listen to Springsteen. ;)
 
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