Quad tracking guitars

[chrisrivalry]

what if you use two microphones on the amp, pan each "take" l100 l80 and r100 r80, is that's quad tracking or does the track count not make a difference.

 

[ahjteam]

Dual Tracking = 2 or 1
Quad Tracking = 4 or 2 (Given)
Dual Tracking = 2 (Given)
Dual Tracking = 1 (Given)
1 = 2 (Substitution)
Quad Tracking = 4 (Given)
Quad Tracking = 2 (Given)
2 = 4 (Substition)
1 = 4 (Transitive)
Dual Tracking = Quad Tracking (Substitution)

programming error.

The chart should be like this:

         Gtr player / variant
-------------------------------
Type     | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
-------------------------------
Single   | 1 | - | - | - |
Dual     | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Dual     | 1 | 2 | - | - |
Quad     | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Quad     | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
-------------------------------

 

[CarlBlomqvist]

what if you use two microphones on the amp, pan each "take" l100 l80 and r100 r80, is that's quad tracking or does the track count not make a difference.

Track count does not make a difference.


Force666 is absolutely right in what he says.

It doesn't matter how many tracks you record (ie; multiple microphones) or how many guitarplayers you are.

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You record/track a riff. Good for you.
You record a harmony of that riff. You have two guitar parts recorded. You have dual tracked.

You do this process once again, and you have Quad Tracked.