Can you have 3 guitars?

[apl]

if its the same guitar and amp combo doing all three parts, its probably going to sound muddy.

you need contrast!

get an ibanez, a fender and a gibson guitar, through a marshall, a crate, and a fender amp! that should be interesting.

Yeah, you definitely need distinct tones.

 

[myhatbroke]

Thanks! Ill try that. I only have one guitar in my dorm but Ill change the settings on my randall for each recording.

 

[apl]

Thanks! Ill try that. I only have one guitar in my dorm but Ill change the settings on my randall for each recording.

You can change setting on your axe, too, like the pup selector and tone knob, or you can finger pick an alternative phrasing, or even strum over the twelfth fret in couterpunctual time.

 

[Narnia]

umm...i've once try a 3 guitars on my pop-rock stuff, 2 panned (which mainly strum chords), using the same sound but on different tone; ther other one was used to do riff and solo which i didn't pan it...it turns out great! you have to watch out the strumming pattern for the 2 guitars as well....coz it might sounds weird too

 

[music al 56]

Ban the panning........its great if you are into orchestral movie stuff or you just want wider strings. ma 56

 

[myhatbroke]

Ban the panning........its great if you are into orchestral movie stuff or you just want wider strings. ma 56

Thanks for your advice bro. Oh wow you just joined?? Wow

 

[apl]

Ban the panning........its great if you are into orchestral movie stuff or you just want wider strings. ma 56

Panning can be overdone, but it's necessary for an interesting mix.

 

[SpotlightKid83]

Listen to the last 3 Iron Maiden albums (since Brave New World), including the last one LIVE, and the one that's coming out tomorrow... they have tens of guitar tracks in the studio, and 3 live.

 

[tubesrawsom]

Iron maiden has three guitarist.

 

[cusebassman]

Man, its all about what sounds right... and I know how helpful that is! I've recorded copies of guitar parts on a new channel and panned them slightly toeach side of the stereo field. Hard-panning just make things sound too uneven to me, so I don't go anywhere near all the way. Also, in using the track copy feature of the Tascam DA-38, I've copied tracks so that two clean copies of the same track are running to two different channels, and then ran them through different effects, panned slightly to each side (for example, two different types of reverb, but nothing too drastic). I'm sure there are a lot more things you can do with multiple channel guitar, but like others have said, I could easily see the mix becoming muddy if you record multiples of the same part and they aren't perfectly sync'd.

 

[laststartoshine]

i normally record 2 rythm tracks and pan them hard left/right with 2 compeltey different set ups, normally involving tele's

then i run a lead track off center up the middle (depends on what the vocals are doing) also with another setup---probably a gibson here.


i would recomend if possible to use different sounds completely.

that way it gives you a nice collage of sound, but it's not just in your face mudd.

 

[photoresistor]

I hope you can, because otherwise i might have to kick one of the guitarists out of my band....

 

[blueroommusic]

In any given rock/metal production, I usually use anywhere from 3-5 tracks for each rhythm guitar...I usually pan the meatiest about 80%, and the rest somewhere around 65-70%...If I need that wall of guitars, I will record a 3rd take in stereo (usually with my nt5's), and pan those left/right at about 45%. It's never done me wrong.

 

[Mark7]

I did a song recently with an acoustic panned far right, an electric panned far left and another electric panned right-centre-right.

Sounds okay to me.

 

[apl]

My song Home Alone has three or four rythm guitar parts. My dear friend Dogman said it was a BIG MIX.

 

[IronFlippy]

Paul Gilbert used around 100 guitars in one song. It can be done. But you have to be Paul Gilbert

As stated before, use a different sound. I've gotten good results with the heavier distortion panned L/R, and then more of an overdrive on a single coil panned center. If you only have one guitar and one amp, you can change settings, use the coil split for single coil, use a stomp box for distortion/OD, or just use 2 tracks as you have been.