great recordings with only doubletracked guitars

[cobhc]

Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned

seriously double tracked? this is my favorite guitar sound and it's only doubled? wow I'm shocked. makes it easier for my next album though

I'm not 100% on that, but I think so. I seem to recall it being mentioned before.

Edit:

Grey ESP V with EMG HZ and Marshall JCM800 modded by Tod Langner, 2 tracks.

From this thread:- http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/andy-sneap/237965-exodus-tempo-damned-question-andy.html

 

[Machinated]

I'm sure when I was last listening to Aenima it sounded surprising mono - especially the guitars.

 

[greyskull]

rage against the fucking machine

 

[iekobrid]

Dir en grey - The Marrow of a Bone

Obviously not everyones favourite music (or production), but sounds pretty damn good and organic to my ears. I'm pretty sure Kaoru (left channel) is using a VH4, and it's so nice and crunchy.

I can take or leave (usually leave) most of Dir en grey's catalog, but the pre-Marrow single version of "Ryoujoku no Ame" was one of my absolute mostest favouritest tracks of 2006. I once described the guitars in the intro/outro and chorus as sounding "like staggering through a still-smoldering airline crash site, dazed and searching for fragments of your loved ones".

 

[Exocaster]

I'm sure when I was last listening to Aenima it sounded surprising mono - especially the guitars.

Not a big stereo spread going on on Tool albums. Very dry and a lot of stuff straight up the middle.

 

[D20]

There's like 24 tracks of rhythm guitar on that record...

Might as well mention Siamese Dream if we're going that route.

Yeah i think i read once Billy said there was like 40-something tracks on some songs........ridiculous IMO

 

[Rupturemetal]

I think Reign in Blood was

 

[The Shrink]

Pantera

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Pantera

I read somewhere Dime used to record made layers of chunk. Way more than two....

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Painkiller

 

[Manicompression]

Painkiller

the only judas ive ever heard and been impressed enough to buy

 

[ze kink]

I listened to Mastodon's Blood Mountain yesterday, and noticed that it's only double tracked too.

 

[pifos_2]

I read somewhere Dime used to record made layers of chunk. Way more than two....

yeah and you can really hear it.

 

[Fifth_Horseman]

Symphony X - Paradise Lost

Go Jens Bogren!

 

[siegfried]

Rammstein...

 

[Djabthrash]

Not 100% sure but :

all Slipknot records
Alabama Thunderpussy - open fire
unearth - III : in the eyes of fire
Dying Fetus records

In general i like double-tracked guitars better than quadtracked ones.

 

[colonel kurtz]

Tool - All albums

Not even double tracked, just a guitar plugged into 3 amps.

you sure about that one?

i'm pretty sure that i read a joe barressi interview where he said that for 10,000 days they split the signal to adam's marshall, mesa, and diezel, with each running to a mesa cab...then each cab had 3 mics on it(57/421/121?), and he then had adam quadtrack everything, for a total of 36 guitar tracks

adam also used only the marshall on undertow...it was with aenima(and after they actually made some $$) that he worked the mesa and diezel into the mix

 

[Exocaster]

Here's the 10,000 Days interview with Joe Barresi: http://mixonline.com/recording/projects/audio_making_tools_days/.

Off the top of my head:

Undertow is just Adam's NMV '71(?) Marshall Superbass. IIRC, the only mod is that the channels are jumpered internally.

Aenima is the Marshall, a Dual Rec and a Diezel VH4.

Lateralus is Marshall, Diezel and a Sunn Beta Lead.

And 10,000 Days is detailed in the interview above. He has G12H30s in the cab for his Marshall and uses Mesa cabs with V30s for everything else.

 

[Toni S.]

I think pretty much all Opeth albums are double tracked (please correct me if I'm wrong) and they sound awesome. Punchy and aggressive but at the same time natural sounding guitars.

 

[Exocaster]

I think pretty much all Opeth albums are double tracked (please correct me if I'm wrong) and they sound awesome. Punchy and aggressive but at the same time natural sounding guitars.

Blackwater Park, IIRC, is a lot of layers of fairly low-gain tracks. I remember Mikael saying something to the effect of "playing heavy metal with a Jeff Beck tone" but liking the sound when the tracks were combined. On Blackwater Park and Deliverance there's a lot of atmospheric guitar-as-synth stuff on top of the normal rhythms, too. I miss that from their sound now with the addition of a real keyboard player, as much as I love the past two albums.

I don't know what they did for the guitar tones more recently, though. I was under the impression they were big on layering lots of tracks, but I could be off.