Getting a nice 'wide' guitar sound

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Thicker guitar

Try adding the sub octave with a pitch shifter,it creats the illusion of a bass guitar playing the riff along with the lead guitar or adding the octave above can give a kind of electronic 12 string effect that sounds wide.
 
yeah wide guitars i crave that sound

i'm no expert like you guys.
i got crappy soundcard and mic.
but when i use cool edit pro, like someone said i just duplicate
that track maybe like 4 times
and zoom in on the track so i can notch it over just a bit so its
delayed only enough to distingish the right and left panning.(youv'e gone too far when it sounds delayed and "echoey"
it works for me.
but maybe my standards are too low. :)
 
I have a little trick that I haven't seen posted here before. What I do is play the guitar thru a stereo multieffects (An old Digitech RP1) but with all effects bypassed. Then I mike two very different amps (a Valvestate Marshall and a tiny Fender) and record them in a stereo track (or two different ones, as you choose). Obviously, both amps have extremely different sounds, and create a great "wide" sound.

So, I don't have to record the whole part again and have two sounds to play with during the mix. I read once that Stevie Ray Vaughn did something similar, by building a "wall of amps", then close-miking some and putting two stereo "overheads" the same way as in drums to pick up the whole sound of the "wall".

And I don't know you guys, but i LOVE Stevie's tone... :D :D :D

SALUDOS AMIGOS
 
Using that pair of stereo overheads in combination with multiple amps close mic'ed might give a "wider" or bigger sound, but just close micing two different sounding amps might not do much. It will make for intersting tone, definately, making the sound bigger, i don't know. I suppose it might, and I'm sure it does sound cool (depending on the amps, I'm not one to EVER mic a Valvestate). The overheads would add a sort of delay/ambience factor to the sound, making it bigger and "wider". Whatever works for you.

Jake
 
From July issue of EQ magazine...

1) Place a book size object under the front of the guitar cabinet to tilt it up. (about a 3" thick book)

2) Place a solid flat object (they refer to it as a diffuser) about 5 feet away from the cabinet tilted back like a ramp at about 60 degrees. The object can be glass, metal or wood and should be @ 3' x 6' to 4' x 8'. Make sure it is propped up securely and doesn't rattle.

3) Place a large diaphragm condenser mic @ 6 to 8 inches from the middle of the face of the "ramp" with the capsile facing perpendicular to the face of the ramp.

4) crank the amp up and start recording.

A few details...

- experiment with different materials for the "ramp" they diffuse diffenently and will change the sound

- move the mic until you find the sound you want (sweet spot)

- place the cabinet at one end of the room...away from corners

- If the room has a sloping ceiling place the amp at the "short end"

This works because the cycle of a A440 note is about 5' and when the "note" hits the diffuser after one cycle it is bounced off and back toward the mic and ceiling to create a spacious effect.

Please note this is a MUCH simplified explanation of the principals...:D

It's a cool sound.

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