Quad Tracking Guitars?

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one thing i've tried a few times with dueling/harmony leads is record each part twice pan one part 100% L, 70% R and pan the other part 70% L and 100% R.
or with two parts that complement each other, going wide with one (70 and 70) and more narrow with the other (30 and 30)...
 
I would also try having a track from both tone 1 and tone 2 on both sides. That way, instead of having one side sound different than the other, you have both sides sounding the same. As long as the tones are complimentary, this should work better. It also gives you more room to have two completely different guitar tones without ending up with a lob-sided mix.

Personally, I just record two rhythms and generally pan them wide. Any harmony or melody work ends up on a separate track panned up the middle. I get the thickness by using two different mics on the cabinet. Usually a 57 and a 421. The 57 gets the good midrange while the 421 gets round lows and smooth highs.
 
arcadeko said:
Unless you add a 6 ms delay to one channel and pan them apart :p lazy mans double tracking
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I've never heard that sound good. But even if, that's really the exact same thing as adding a digital delay to one repeat and setting it to 6ms. It's just a really fast delay.
 
My ten cents-What I do is only double track the rhythm guitar, hard pan left and right, it adds lot of thickness. Then the lead guitar, I single track, right down the middle, maybe pan 5% right or left. I don't really think you should ever have to quad track, I have heard it sound good, but I have also heard it sound like crap.
 
arcadeko said:
Unless you add a 6 ms delay to one channel and pan them apart :p lazy mans double tracking
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That always sounds like crap, and the guitars will almost disappear in mono. You would be better off putting a chorus on it, at least the short delay will move a bit and sound like you did it on purpose.
 
RAMI said:
That accomplishes absolutely nothing other than making them louder.

It's been said a million times here, and I guess it needs to be repeated: Copy/Pasting anything does nothing other than make it louder. It doesn't make it "fuller", "warmer", "thicker" or anything else that ends with "er", other than "louder". It's the fact that it gets louder that makes people think it actually sounds better. But the fact is, it sound exactly the same, just LOUDER.
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what about "shittier?"... or "Amateur-er-er"?
 
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