2d guitars

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Hi, I'm about to record a heavy metal band, so I've been recording sanples of heavy guitar riffs all week, and I've noticed my guitars sound very two dimensional. I mean, the heavy thickness is there, but the guitars just sound kinda flat. I'm quadrupling the guitars and recording with an sm57. Do you guys have any tips?
 
Usually, I get a pretty good sound from mic placement tweaking. Sometimes right at the center, sometimes at a 45 to the outside, other times a condenser mic out in the room.

Also, when I double track, I'll use a different pickup, guitar, amp, EQ settings or whatever for the 2nd track. Not very often will I track more than 2 of the same guitar part but that could be because I'm ambitiously lazy. ;)

Hope somethin helped...
 
Typicly ill stick an old maxon in the chain. (guitar, maxon (or a tube screamer) then the amp) No distortion added from the pedal though, just the output gain boosted up........like a poor mans emg sorta.

It adds hip character to the tone.

At that point you can roll down the amps gain, and let that hot ouput push your preamp tubes (assuming you are using a tube amp) into a hotter overdrive.

Im sure im not explaining this well, i hope it translates for you.
 
probably too much distortion. (you said it was flat) if you want to add dynamics try lowering the distortion. its one of those cases where less is more.
 
A lot of the good sounds I've gotten for heavy guitar have been from constant EQ tweaking. One song I recorded in particular went through 18 different mixes before I ended up liking it, but it was worth all the work.
 
Use some delay to widen things up and make the guitars sound bigger. Something around 40-80ms with only one or two echoes.
 
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