guitar edits

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nick_Black
  • Start date Start date
N

Nick_Black

Mirthmaker
hey, I've read all sorts of things on how to edit your drums, or vocals to get that perfect sound, but are thier any pointer on how to edit guitars (like reverb or EQ settings) it seams to be quite tricky becouse the cords strech from low to verry high frequencies at the same time. and as far as i know you can't mic each induvidual string (hey maby i should build a pickup that does just that! :p )

but does anybody have any experience in editing guitars?

any tips will be useful

thxs
 
Do a Google for "studiobuddy". Its a downloadable deal that is a good place to start. Its free too.

6
 
What kind of guitar do you have? What kind of sound are you going for, and what type of music are you talking about recording? What program are you using to edit it, and what kinda mic are you using on it?

More details = easier to respond to
 
Nick_Black said:
....it seams to be quite tricky becouse the cords strech from low to verry high frequencies at the same time....
Click to expand...

Just like most everything else if you want to get technical.

Seriously, the best advice for editing guitar is to not edit the guitar and get it right at the source. Most people will strive for this, as should you. When it comes to what sort of tweaks get done afterwards, it all depends on what you couldn't get right during tracking. That could be anything.

That being said, I often end up doing some subtle eq on distorted guitars. just to tame problem frequencies, like cutting the low end mud out, things like that. But only if I notice a problem. For clean guitars, maybe a little EQ and usually some compression....it just depends on what the tracks sound like.
Acoustic guitar usually sounds best to me with no eq if I can get away with it and some clean compression. But again, it all depends on how it was tracked. Ideally you wouldn't need to edit anything.

Reverb is all about suiting the song. There's no ideal reverb setting to make guitars sound good.
 
You can use reverb, EQ and compression to get a good sound. Though no matter how much you edit a crappy tone is a crappy tone. You can do some really cool things and drastically change the tone using eq but I'd suggest to concentrate more on your guitar and amps sound.
 
well..

Nick_Black said:
as far as i know you can't mic each induvidual string (hey maby i should build a pickup that does just that! :p )
Click to expand...

Actually, Gibson beat you to it. Link.
 
jclardy said:
Actually, Gibson beat you to it. Link.
Click to expand...
Sweet mercy on toast, why would you want something like that? :confused:


I am sure there is probably someone anal enough to want to eq each string differently, or add effects to each string, but it seems like it would take forever to track something like that.

Someone once posted something about putting each string on it's own track, but they were joking...


And so that I am not hijacking the thread, proper tracking will alleviate the need to do a lot of editing afterward, which has already been stated. I would just add that if you spend sometime listening to what your mic is picking up before you hit the record button, you will spend less time trying to "fix it in the mix"...
 
Tracking of all 6 strings would be hard when you bend the strings.
There are times where I bend at 20th fret on the High E, and end up almost as far as the D string.
Mind you, I have snapped some High E's at the bridge doing this.
 
jclardy said:
Actually, Gibson beat you to it. Link.
Click to expand...

Actually, pickups that generate a separate signal for each string have been around for at least 25 years. There were guitar synths in the 70's that had to have them because each synth channel could only deal with a single note.
 
That would sure make tabbing things out a lot easier. Don't know why nobody's thought of doing that yet.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top