Double Tracking Guitar

[Disposable]

I'm curious as to how one mixes a double tracked guitar part?
Would one hard-pan the two tracks left/right?

And if so, would one apply effects like reverb to the summed parts
Or to each part separately?

I've never double tracked a part before and am curious as to how to mix it.

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[Farview]

You can hard pan them, but sometimes it's thicker if you do more of a 9:00 3:00 thing. If you are going to put reverb on them, use the same one. That way the guitars sound like they are playing together somewhere.

 

[VU-1]

If the input to your vrb is stereo, pan the vrb sends from the mixer the same as the track panning. IOW - if Gtr 1 is panned hard left, send its vrb feed only to the left input of the vrb unit. If Gtr 2 is panned hard left, send its vrb feed only to the right input of the vrb unit. Same for any other stacked gtr(s)...

This helps to create a sense of space in the mix.

 

[xfatalherox]

you should also note that when you are planning on double tracking guitar, it sounds way thicker if you record the guitar part twice rather than just panning the same track hard left and right. remember:

recording the track twice = thickness
panning the same track hard L and R = loudness

good luck!

 

[Laynestaley]

you should also note that when you are planning on double tracking guitar, it sounds way thicker if you record the guitar part twice rather than just panning the same track hard left and right...

panning the same track hard left and right will result in a mono track. No stereo effects what so ever. There isn't any point in doing this..

 

[Disposable]

Rest Assured I recorded two takes of the part...
Thanks for the tips guys.

 

[grosslocust]

Split

If you do choose to record only one track and copy it one hard left one hard right you can still get a thicker sound if you offset the time of each track by say 10ms or less. This practice is rarely used and not recommended, but a lot of people do this in remixes of music to add thickness to old tracks. Just a thought. Try it, it's kinda funky too.