doubletracking guitar?

[explorer7]

Hey. I'm fairly new to recording guitar and making it sound good. I like to record instrumental music, with guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards. It isn't heavy metal, but just guitars with overdrive. The guitar is the lead instrument, but I really don't like the sound of doubletracking the guitar because it takes up too much bandwidth. I think it also drowns out the bass. So I want to know exactly how popular doubtracking guitar amongst artists is, and what a recommended solution is. Thanks.

 

[Dani Pace]

For me it is fairly common to double, triple or more tracks for each guitar. I mean recording as many tracks as i have to, not just cloning or copying tracks. You have to be able to play the parts as cloce to exact as possible.

 

[ido1957]

I find distorted guitars (especially layered) really do cover up the bass a lot. To compensate I use the eq on the mixer to reduce the bass on the guitar tracks. I always do a high pass (like remove everything below 75HZ) and then the guitars are still crunchy but have very little bass allowing the bass to poke through in those lower frequencies.