Close enough so that you can't tell there's 4 guitars playing?
Close enough so that you can't tell there's 4 guitars playing?
Quad tracking is such a pain in the dick if you're someone like me with a (not so good) sense of rhythm
Check out the Rose of Sharyn DI's for a good example of how tightly quadtracked guitars sound.
What I do to check is pan them all to one side and listen without the click - it should sound like one massive, overly smooth take.
I'm in the same boat even with tight dual-tracking i have some problems...
i always thought i`m a not-so-bad guitarist, but since i`m recording myself, i feel like i`m the shittiest guitar-player in the world. any tips for becoming better and get a better sense of rythm? (besides parctice with click and record myself over and over again)
regards, markus
I think the bottom line is that no band should enter a studio before practising their songs to click. It just gets frustrating when a muso can't play something they wrote properly. I'm currently stuck in studio with a band just like this. (I shant be doing it again) spending weeks on a song (guitars) is rediculous IMO!
Or do like all those tech band and record note by note, riff by riff.
Boo. Call me a snob, but I feel that if a band can't play the song right, they shouldn't be recording it.
Erratic said:well, it's something that gets done a lot for your information, Necrophagist is the best exemple of note for note recording.
I'm surprised to hear that, seeing how YouTube proves they actually pull it off live flawlessly