great recordings with only doubletracked guitars

[cobhc]

Yeah, Opeth layer the shit out of their rhythm tracks, I'd say at least 8 tracks of distorted rhythm tracks alone.

 

[Metaltastic]

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.

I'm not surprised to read that, cuz I've really never liked Blackwater Park's tone - it's too, I dunno, not muddy, but kinda dense sounding (maybe phase issues from so many tracks), and yet the lack of saturation, especially on the palm mutes (like in that awesome first break riff around 2 minutes into "The Leper Affinity") really pisses me off.

Newer Opeth stuff sounds much more sparse in terms of takes but more saturated, which is insta-win for me.

 

[Proggm]

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

Nope. All Pantera records were just doubled tracked, but the MXR Flanger/Doubler he used in the loop gave the impression of a quad-tracked recording.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Nope. All Pantera records were just doubled tracked, but the MXR Flanger/Doubler he used in the loop gave the impression of a quad-tracked recording.

Source please.

 

[D20]

Source please.

I'd like to see this too. I thought all their records were more than double tracked

 

[006]

Source please.

Oh snap! You just got called out SON!

~006

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Oh snap! You just got called out SON!

~006

I ain't callin anyone out... I just wanna see it with me own two eyes.

 

[TheDude]

Rammstein...

Ehum. No. I've done several remixes of them, and they had 8 tracks of guitar.

Meshuggah. All albums before Catch 33.

 

[bibz]

Dime said he'd get a good feel for the riff lay it down, then go back and copy it to make the double. Even with leads. I'm sure theres parts with 80 guitar tracks going on, but I remember some of the many many listens to fbd concentrating on the slight variences of each side. Could be wrong, I was more into the performance then the production.

 

[siegfried]

TheDude: sure, i was joking I heard that they use 16 track sometimes (!)

 

[blackcom]

Ehum. No. I've done several remixes of them, and they had 8 tracks of guitar.

Meshuggah. All albums before Catch 33.

I thought Meshuggah ALLWAYS quad-tracked??!!......maybe not NONE, but.....

 

[Meisterjäger]

Very dry and a lot of stuff straight up the middle.

That's what she said.

 

[Djabthrash]

That's what she said.

 

[Jevil]

90% (or even more) of the albums recorded in history of metal are double tracked, so there are thousand of great recordings, great albums and great bands with "only" 2 guitars.

 

[Youpimatin]

Anata "Infernal Dephts of Hatred", amazing album with a pretty raw production.

 

[LSD-Studio]

90% (or even more) of the albums recorded in history of metal are double tracked, so there are thousand of great recordings, great albums and great bands with "only" 2 guitars.

true...I had the modern sound in Mind though (Metalcore etc)

 

[ze kink]

Ehum. No. I've done several remixes of them, and they had 8 tracks of guitar.

Meshuggah. All albums before Catch 33.

I've seen a DEI -era interview in some guitar magazine, and in that interview they say that they quad track everything. They do say though that they're pretty lazy with tracking, so some songs' rhythms are all played by Mårten and some songs are only Frederik. They listed some songs that are like that too, but I can't remember them. The Meshuggah forum probably still has the interview somewhere, I found it from there too.

 

[aramism]

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. The new album sounds like it's double tracked as well. The older stuff is probably double tracked too (at least Vulgar and Withering to Death are), but their production is horrible.

Ion Dissonance - Minus the Herd

I'm not actually sure if this is double tracked, I was listening to it yesterday and I decided that it sounds like it was double tracked. Then again, the guitarists are probably so tight that you wouldn't notice the layering. Again, not everyone's favourite (most prefer Solace) but I think the production is just awesome.

Ihsahn - both solo albums

The production is not that awesome, but still pretty organic and a nice change.

Tool - All albums

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

ion dissonance was quad. -> 6505 and jcm 800