Just how close do you get your tracks to one another? Does anyone have an example of quad tracks, Clean, not distorted, unprocessed ??
Thanks!
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Quad tracking question
- Thread starter RichS
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koalamo
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Is that all there is to it? I wouldn't mind hearing some raw tracks to hear how close others get them.
koalamo
Member
Well in all honesty I've never found it necessary to quad so maybe someone with more experience can answer for sure. Buuut as far as I know there shouldn't be much more too it aside from maybe the two high gain tracks and two lower gain tracks for clarity but as far as how they line up you want them to be very tight you don't want anyone to know there's more than 1 track it's supposed to sound like a wall of sound do a search I'm almost positive this has been posted before otherwise idk how I would know all this information.
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
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.
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.
JoergieN
Member
Quad tracking is such a pain in the dick if you're someone like me with a (not so good) sense of rhythm
ForHerDeadEyes
Señor Member
Like koalamo's saying, so tight that you percieve it as one guitar playing..
However.. The tracks can be played with different guitars and/or different amps/cabs/mics.. that gives a different flavour..
Just get the DI's tight..
KHE
Member
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
practice practice practice practice
Or do like all those tech band and record note by note, riff by riff.
Or do like all those tech band and record note by note, riff by riff.
OneDaySky
Clint
OneDaySky
Clint
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!
JoergieN
Member
I'm in the same boat
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
Yeah dude I guess it's just practice. I'm getting better at it. I can shred like there's no tomorrow but doing it to a click sucks
bryan_kilco
Member
THIS!!!
My band is recording ourselves.....8 song EP.....and we're limited on time (like maybe 2-3 days a week, 3-8 hour days, depending), but we have all the time in the world to take to make it right. I have pretty much experience with tracking myself, sitting at home, take after take after take after punch in after punch in. It came to the point where our other guitarist basically couldn't cleanly play barely even a measure of a song he wrote, and has been playing for like 5 years. It was very disappointing to say the least. If we had booked real studio time, we'd be fucked.
Practice by yourself. Turn down the gain really low, or unplug your guitar from the amp, and play. This helps with picking precision and attack. Hit the strings like you mean it, don't be a pussy about it. I find that even 30 mins every day will help overall, and within a week or 2 you really start to notice improvement.
Damage, Inc.
Member
Boo. Call me a snob, but I feel that if a band can't play the song right, they shouldn't be recording it.
well, it's something that gets done a lot for your information, Necrophagist is the best exemple of note for note recording.
JoergieN
Member
I disagree. Back when I used to play in bands and shit I used parts that I could pull off live but took forever to track in the studio. Luckily we tracked in our singer's studio
If you monitor the recorded tracks in mono it's VERY easy to hear if you're out of time. If the takes sound like one, then check in stereo for string noise, weakly fretted notes and that kind of stuff.
If the takes passed those test, they're ok.
If the takes passed those test, they're ok.
DanLights
Santa Hat Forever
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I'm surprised to hear that, seeing how YouTube proves they actually pull it off live flawlessly
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
With Necrophagist, it's more for the effect of having little-to-no pick attack and it ends up sounding super smooth. Veil of Maya does the same sort of thing, but partially for tonal reasons and partially because Keene is a lazy dick.
