Apr 05, 2012 02:17 pm Are you trying to make it sound like there are two guitar players or are you trying to make a "wall of sound"?
Mixing Two Guitar Tracks - Am I overthinking this?
Posted on Apr 05, 2012 11:02 am
Hippie
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When I tracked guitars for this band I’m working with, I had the (only) guitar player track 2 takes, each take using a different guitar. In my mix, I panned each guitar 80/80 with a delay using 50% of the L/R channels, respectively. Kinda hard to explain, but my plugin is a L/C/R delay and I can specify how much of a percentage I want the delay to affect the spectrum. So.. on the 80% left pan channel, for example, I want the delay on that track to use up 50% of that left channel.
Anyway, in hindsight I think I should have Quad tracked by mic'ing two speakers during the recording to give me more options. But given my situation:
Would I be better off leaving as is, or layering the two different guitar tracks (with some additional eq'ing) and pan hard L and R? So basically, instead of having Guitar 1 on the L and Guitar 2 on the R... put both Guitar 1 and 2 on both L and R channels (with some minor Eq'ing to separate out some diff frequencies)?
I guess I can experiment in the meantime, but might as well ask since you guys know a ****-ton more than me!!!
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Apr 05, 2012 02:17 pm Are you trying to make it sound like there are two guitar players or are you trying to make a "wall of sound"?
Apr 05, 2012 02:43 pm Since there's technically only one guitar player in the band, I guess wall of sound!!!
Apr 05, 2012 03:18 pm Well what I would do is double each track that you have. Pan one to 80% L and then nudge the duplicate track and pan 20% R. Do the same sort of thing to the other track but pan 20% L and 80% R. Be sure the nudge is less than 30ms so that you don't get a distinct echo. And some delay and eq to taste. This should create a pretty full sound. Not sure if this is the sound you are going for or if I explained it properly but you get the idea.
Apr 12, 2012 03:14 am ya know you can try a mono delay where you have one guitar left 80 sent to mono delay which is hard right and reverse for the other.
eq your delay so its more top endy rather than the meat of the gits so its sits at the top of the spectrum more and doesnt interfere with the mix.
Ya might get some issues duping the same gits on each side left and right even if you dont have the same track on any one side.
i guess to the panning of the gits is all up to how you have the oh's panned also.
end of the day anything you put on gits too much is going to take the edge of the sound somewhat so the level of FX in the mix is crucial.
If your going just for space fill and cohesion then should be cool but trying fatten a heavyish sound with fx doesnt really work that well IMO. Gotta be real careful of the mix FX level.
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