How do you record/mix guitar solos

[nicoroy123]

Hi, need your input on how to make guitar solos sound huge. For rhythm guitars, dual or quad tracking is the way to go. But it is kind of impossible to dual track a guitar solo that contains a lot of fast runs and bending etc cause they always seem to sound out of tune or out of phase.

So how do you do it? One take recorded in stereo? (On two mono tracks with some delays between the two?)

Any advise you could share?

Thanks!

 

[Glenn Fricker]

Use an amp that's different from the one you recorded rhythms with.

That's the easiest, simplest way.


BTW, next time, post questions of this type in "production tips."

 

[plague_rider]

Use an amp that's different from the one you recorded rhythms with.

That's the easiest, simplest way.

Right on the button, i was gona fire that reply in but you got there first...

Back when i used GuitarRig for example, i'd use the mesa for rhythm and a marshall for leads... nice to put some delay and verb on there two... make it epic!!

 

[Skinny Viking]

different amp from rhythm tone, sometimes a different guitar helps, EQ, compression and a little bit of delay to give it some dimension

I hate the fact that I'm about to say this for the 1st time here:

This has been covered in numerous threads ... next time use the search function 1st and if after actually reading at least several of the threads you still don't have an answer to a specific question about it, post a thread

and greetings