Executioner213
Ultimate Meatbag
I really don't agree about getting one guitarist to play the parts. What is the point? It's not a true reflection of the band, and so you're effectively lying to the people who are going to be listening/buying the album!
When I hear an album, I want to hear the BAND, not the producer or engineer. Talking about ego's .....
Two albums come to mind from first thought:
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Both of those cd's are done with one guy playing all the rhythm guitars (Hetfield, Schuldiner). Those are two of the heaviest and tightest albums out there, and you can't tell me that those cd's aren't accurate representations of the band.
Lets think the other direction: how about my favorite Pantera cd, Far beyond Driven. Dime didn't just record one guitar part for each song on the disc, but many. That album is heavier than fuck, and I guarantee you its not because he had Rex or Phil playing a guitar along with him to double the parts
It's not a new concept that one guitarist play all the rhythm parts...it's not even always done because the other guys sucks, but just to get it *that* much tighter sounding. This is a stupid subject considering all the bands that run with samplers playing orchestras, symphonies, choirs or even any other form of instrument in the background....that is cheap, if you want to get down to the truth of it. Sure, not everyone is like Pink Floyd and can afford to have 40 people on stage to accurately play every part....in other words, it's subjective and doesn't fucking matter.
I do agree that recording a bands material with the plan to make them sound x amount better than they actually are...that is lame, and I'm sure I'll end up in the same situation anytime now.
With my band, one of the main reasons we are getting into a new drummer was our one session I tried to record drums. I spent about an hour setting up mics on our drummers kit and getting everything lined up...then we spent several hours not able to get him to play his part correctly, couldn't play to the click for shit. He would start with the click and then just gradually get faster as if he was getting excited. A whole day of recording gone to waste and I don't even want to record my own drummer anymore because of it, the shit made me so upset.