When + why do YOU multitrack guitars

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Here's a heavy gtr tone demo with a R92 micing a GB and a 57 micing a V30

First is the R92-GB...

After a short Beep is the 57-V30...

After the second Beep is a mix of about 60% R92-GB and 40% 57-V30

Next I pan the R92-GB 100% Left and add the second guitar and pan it 100% Right

Dual Mic Demo with R92 and SM57
 
Sonixx said:
Here's a heavy gtr tone demo with a R92 micing a GB and a 57 micing a V30

First is the R92-GB...

After a short Beep is the 57-V30...

After the second Beep is a mix of about 60% R92-GB and 40% 57-V30

Next I pan the R92-GB 100% Left and add the second guitar and pan it 100% Right

Dual Mic Demo with R92 and SM57
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That sounds very nice. Thanks for posting it!
 
Sonixx said:
:cool: thanks for checking

this was utilizing the dual mic plugin track setup I posted earlier in this thread.
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FWIW--I always check your posts. You get some killer guitar tones...
 
can't you achieve the right tone with just ONE track
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IMO it's context. an example is early Tool that is often a single guitar track. but a lot of later recordings is at least double tracked.

I don't think it's a s much about achieving the right tone as it is filling out the stereo image.
 
Sonixx said:
Here's a heavy gtr tone demo with a R92 micing a GB and a 57 micing a V30

First is the R92-GB...

After a short Beep is the 57-V30...

After the second Beep is a mix of about 60% R92-GB and 40% 57-V30

Next I pan the R92-GB 100% Left and add the second guitar and pan it 100% Right

Dual Mic Demo with R92 and SM57
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I'll need to re-listen with something other than the Earcandy earbuds I have for my iPod in the office because phase cancellation in a stereo mix sort of doesn't happen on headphones...

But is the stereo bit seperate guitar takes, or just the same take on two different mics? I thought I was hearing ever-so-slight variations between the two tracks, so I was just wondering...

Either way, insert disclaimer about earbuds, it sounded nice. :D What's the amp?
 
IMHO it all depends on the sound you're going for. Most people in this thread (save a few) seem to be talking about hard rock/metal tones, and for that, the wall-of-sound guitar tones are standard.

Coming from someone who doesn't play that style of music at all, though (I'm more indie, alt. rock, whatever), I rarely like the doubled-and-panned-hard-left-and-right approach. I'm not saying that I never think it sounds good. But to do every song that way, from beginning to end, sounds very monotonous and boring to me. Even if you double-track for real (i.e., play the part two different times), it still just kind of ends up sounding like big mono after a while.

I much prefer the sound of two complimentary parts if you're gonna do the panned-left-and-right guitar thing.

But, to each his own. Like I said, I don't do the metal thing.
 
famous beagle said:
IMHO it all depends on the sound you're going for. Most people in this thread (save a few) seem to be talking about hard rock/metal tones, and for that, the wall-of-sound guitar tones are standard.

Coming from someone who doesn't play that style of music at all, though (I'm more indie, alt. rock, whatever), I rarely like the doubled-and-panned-hard-left-and-right approach. I'm not saying that I never think it sounds good. But to do every song that way, from beginning to end, sounds very monotonous and boring to me. Even if you double-track for real (i.e., play the part two different times), it still just kind of ends up sounding like big mono after a while.

I much prefer the sound of two complimentary parts if you're gonna do the panned-left-and-right guitar thing.

But, to each his own. Like I said, I don't do the metal thing.
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I agree that two complimentary parts on either side definitely sounds better, although I think that's more of an arrangement thing than a pure tone thing. It definitely does matter which genre, or more specifically/correctly which band and even which song from which band you're recording when it comes to whether or not to double.

I guess with all of these arguments in mind, the only real answer is that you should multitrack guitars when you want to create the sound of multitracked guitars! It's sort of like asking "when do you use distortion?"
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
But is the stereo bit seperate guitar takes, or just the same take on two different mics? I thought I was hearing ever-so-slight variations between the two tracks, so I was just wondering...

Either way, insert disclaimer about earbuds, it sounded nice. :D What's the amp?
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the mono part is a single take with two mics... one mic on a Greenback and one mic on a V30 in the same cab...

the stereo part is two separate takes (performances).

amp is Krank Rev1
 
Hey guys what do you think about the new tracks? myspace.com/tarecording
 
Sonixx said:
amp is Krank Rev1
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Really? Interesting. It's not exactly the sort of tone I go after, but I've heard so many horror stories about those things that I'd have expected something just unequivically bad, lol.
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
Really? Interesting. It's not exactly the sort of tone I go after, but I've heard so many horror stories about those things that I'd have expected something just unequivically bad, lol.
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I can't speak for other's inability to dial amps. IMO it's a great amp with a very solid tone. also, it's far from a one trick pony.
 
Sonixx said:
I can't speak for other's inability to dial amps. IMO it's a great amp with a very solid tone. also, it's far from a one trick pony.
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Nor would I ask you to... I've never played one myself, but it's an amp a lot of people love to hate.

Then again, so's the Rectifier series, yet I swear by mine, lol.
 
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