Exactly, I hate sometimes when you going for that sound of a song you like and it is hard to nail it. I found it is best to find a live version so I get a better idea of what it really sounds like assuming there is no trickery on stage, but that is getting harder. I can tell how much you love music the pain you are willing to endure for your craft Dan. 😁
Also, one recording tip, when doubling or layering guitars: Even if you use a different guitar or pedal, try switching speaker cabs, mic preamps, and especially microphones. Mics and pres have very specific frequency and transient responses, and if you layer several of them, it can all start to sound the same, even if using a different guitar... sometimes using the exact same setup with a different mic can sound more different than a different rig with the same mic.
Dan, I’d just like to say the effort and detail that goes into these videos that you and Mick do is insane. Rather than just show the detail of what you are talking about you have written a killer tune, recorded it to professional standards and made the video fun and interesting. Thanks so much for the work you (both) put in.
As a final exam for my SAE Audio Engineering Diploma way back in 1985 I had to record 2 song tracks of a multi piece band. We had 16 track 1" tape, yay !!... The 1st song went down sweet with 7mics on drums, 3 guitar parts on a Fender Deluxe Reverb plus a bass track, a DX7 keyboard part, a Sax track and a few vocals. On the 2nd song we laid down a number of tracks, and the control room suddenly burst into discussion that the lead guitar part wasn't quite right. Calming the disaster I said we could just re-lay the lead guitar part again, and easy peasy 4 minutes later I hit stop and rewind on the 16 track recorder. Silly me didn't drop the fader of the first lead guitar part, and despite being panned hard left and right thankfully nobody noticed the near identical verse rhythm playing on both guitar parts. That was fine until the lead solo where the guitarist played a near totes diff accented solo. Everybody was stunned as the lead solo guitar swirled around the control room only to disappear back into rhythm sweetness at the end of the solo. My Brisbane instructors were so impressed they gave me a teaching job at the Perth school, and the 1" multitrack master was taken to the UK.
I used six acoustic takes, each tuned two cents away (A 434Hz , 436, 438, 440, 442, and 444) and panned those across a mix. It made the deepest, most lush chorus I've ever heard,. Yet some how it was still subtle enough that it didn't dominate everything else.
Ah, a most excellent primer on double tracking. Thanks Dan! Watching this reminded me of a story from a ZZ Top documentary. While recording their first album, the recording engineer suggested double tracking Billy G's guitar part. The band's manager was dead set against it, but the band connived a plan to send the manager out for take-out barbecue at a restaurant some distance from the studio. While the manager was gone, Billy doubled his part and the rest is music legend and history. :-)
Great vlog! My five favourites Double track with 1. Different guitars 2. Same guitar, different pickups (neck/bridge) 3. One fuzz, one ts (killer) 4. One bone-dry one very wet reverb 5. One slow vibrato one slight flange And to quote the great mr Kaufman theres no end to the possibilities!!! (this is were the limitations of an analouge desk is helping)
I’ve been double tracking for decades. Sometimes triple or quadruple using different amps and voicings etc for huge choruses. Today was literally the first time I’ve heard of “Nashville tuning”. I had to look it up. Fascinating.
Great fun double tracking. Love Waves' artificial double tracker in Abbey Road series for vocals. Also, the lighting in this video is really superb. The warmth and contrast with background gives it a nice intimacy and sophistication. Perfect compliment for your ever enthusiastic smiling face, Dan. Really enhances viewer experience. Cheers, guys.
Please add to your "you asked us to try this" list. My wet/dry rig uses a TC Mimiq as the spilt after my drives (in 3 voice mode). It functions great as the wet/dry split, and then engage the Mimiq to bring the magic to the epic riffs. Thanks for another delightful escape!
So I have double tracked ambient pads by reversing the original and hard panning it with both of them put through massive reverb. Worked really well through the whole song. More recently I used the same ambient pad but put them each through a different effect. Worked really well and created great movement especially in the verses. Unbelievable amounts of fun was had.
How is it that nearly every guitar channel grew subscribers like crazy during the pandemic, but not this one? TPS is one of the best channels out in youtube land!
Dan you & Mick never-cease to amaze me. I loved seeing you get your: "Tony Iommi" on. Great stuff. My 1st pro-guitar was a cherry-red Gibson SG (because of Tony Iommi)
Great vid! Rhett Shull made a video on tracking guitars (and he mentioned double tracking) and a technique he uses is one guitar on one side and another guitar on the other. For example, tele on the left, les paul on the right. I think this is also great advice for people who are lucky enough to have two guitars!
I love double tracking when I record and these are fantastic tips to do it. The best part about this video is that it is beautifully presented, concise and has excellent audio examples showing exactly what's going on. Man you guys are so good at this.
Hope everything is okay over the pond. I feel lost without this show lol!!! Didn’t realize how important it was until last Monday didn’t happen or today
This is great Dan! The fan outro was hilarious, I hope it didn't hurt! I double track when recording, sometimes even triple. But I only did triples after using a TCE Mimiq pedal live in stereo (not the mini mimiq). It's so much fun that I bought the TC Duplicator pedal for my live vocals (for very occasional use. It's one of those effects that can be overused). So now I will sometimes double track a counter melody vocal, or the harmony vocal on the bridge.
Strange that I watched a video the other day on a similar subject and commented _why cant you just copy and paste the same track, once panned left and once panned right and get the same effect_ You just explained it perfectly and expanded on it, thanks Dan.
Would love to see a follow-up to this with you guys and the TC Electronic Mimiq pedal and do a comparison between the studio and the pedal's performance. I know John Petrucci is using a Mimiq in his latest touring rig.
Brill. :) Variation on #5, using EQ: when Rick Beato did Boston's "More than a Feeling" on his "What Makes This Song Great?" episode, he pulled out one electric guitar that was severely scooped, another than was dramatically mid-pushed ("lo-fi"). Sounded epic together. Of course. (Different result than Karnivool's alternate-band approach.)
I play a Fender Stratocaster and I bought a $70 Strat copy (same colour combo, so that makes it sound better) from a pawn shop and set it up in Nashville tuning. Absolutely love it.
Thanks Dan! Excellent helps for a novice like me who wants to keep improving backing tracks for church singing when live musicians aren't available....you also diagnosed that I have an issue with my left PC speaker!! Thanks again.
One of my fav multiple-tracking techniques is to start by recording a straight track, placed in the center of the stereo mix. Then I record two more tracks, panned right & left, one recorded with the recording gizmo running a little fast and the other with it running a little slow. The slight pitch differences add extra movement, and the center track lets me control the intensity of the effect: more center in the mix for less intensity, or vice versa. Picked this up from an old interview with Lindsey Buckingham.
Awesome video! - I recently got a Strymon DECO doubletracker pedal. Man, that thing sounds like it was dipped in magic sauce. The flanging by toe feature is out of this world. I have a Catalinbread Zeropoint as well, it's very cool but the DECO is king to my ears. Your jam tune was cool too.
Love the show. One thing that comes to mind are bands like Rush that routinely used two delays set milliseconds a part. Say the left set to 79ms and the right set to 85ms (I’m just choosing random values) and processing stereo signals to mono tracks then panning them hard left and right.
That's why, when recording 2 rock guitars, you change amp and cab for the double, as it enriches the sound tremendoulsy. Kinda like the EQ example. Apart from that it's the "play the same, but somewhere else" which does the trick.
I have literally just bought a second boss katana to play around with the stereo expand feature and a MIMIQ pedal to try out the double tracking features in stereo. Definitely going to try that EQ trick!
Thanks for another great episode. Have you heard about the TC Electronic Mimiq Doubler. It does exactly that... In my former band we found that two guitarist playing different style amps worked really well. A vox ac30 style amp and a Fender Hotrod Deluxe. Different style of overdrive as well. He played TC electronic Alberta and mudhoney on strats and les pauls for lead stuff while I played Fulltone OCD on a tele for rythm stuff.
Nice one, Dan. I've often tracked left hand channel with reverb in right, right hand channel with reverb in left and just to go OTT, an almost dry track in the centre. It sounds HUGE.
Bloody brilliant video, Dan. It’s so TPS to start by reminding us of how good something so simple can be (of course it is, every Beatles record can’t be wrong) then to kick it up eight notches. I have been arsing about in my bedroom studio for a decade and never thought about simple and obvious stuff like double tracking multiple chord voicings. There’s so much practical value on this channel.
Some great tips. I also find that double tracking with different pickups, changing amps, or using different amounts of gain really helps get the most out of double tracking.
You just know that, apart from the logistics giving him nightmares, Mick is thinking, “I wonder if we could do a sneaky 30-second double track of the guitars when we are playing with a new pedal on the show, and see if anyone notices...”
Good on you, Dan - a masterclass/how too, delivered in less than quarter of an hour! Defo another episode for the TPS University syllabus. Echoes of so many of the behemoth players from across the ages in each one of your suggestions. Like a game of top trumps for recording techniques used by legendary guitarists. Great work, Sir!
Double tracking is brilliant! Ever since I was at College back when I was 18 (bloody ten years ago now!) I learned about it and I've never done a recording session or writing session without it - It's hugely rewarding to feel that wall of sound back at you with all those glorious textures! One thing I've been having a play around with recently is double tracking the rhythm parts left and right hard panned, and then adding a third guitar track in the middle playing rhythm and any lead textures - It's not something I'd use all the time, but it's been fun to mess around with to create a thicker guitar sound!
DUDE! Awesome! I was tortured by your intro... My Custom Shop SG Jr has been sitting at home unopened since Monday since I've been on the road on work. Much schwangage to come!
Great video! Another cool double tracking technique that I’ll use when recording is to do one take on the neck pickup, double the track that, then do another track on the neck and middle and double track that. Really thickens up guitars and works great in the mix. Perfect for cleans. You can use any combinations of pickups too, on humbucker guitars, single coils etc.
Outstanding! I've been enjoying recording at home more since we can't gig and double tracking is big fun. Bonus - recording has helped me play more simply (not over play) and play cleaner. Definitely hours well spent.
I use to split my guitar signal after the preamp section (peavey tube amp). One signal goes back (throug modulation pedals) to the power section. The second signal goes to a Boss Katana solid state clean channel with its own mod effects. Sounds great both in recording an live as well.
Huge sound!!!! Rick Beato, in one of his "what makes this song great" series described the double tracking of Van Halen's guitar in the first records, based on hard panning of two tracks, one dry and the other with reverb.
Great vid Dan as always! I’ve got a mimiq and a quintessence, for live stuff you can get similar effect to ‘2’ using quintessence going into mimiq - (try and come out using both stereo outs), this can give double track effect, then for solo have quintessence on moment mode. Be aware, on quintessence ‘dry’ comes out right, and the other way round on mimiq, I keep dry and wet signal separate.
Great primer! Obviously, using any of these techniques with different guitars (Les Paul,/Tele, acoustic/electric, bass/guitar), one guitar effected (Distortion, modulation, etc) the other less so or dry. Same principles, different execution. Any kind of harmony device, like pedal tones, counter point, intervals, etc. all variations on the theme. Really nice post! Going to save this one for when I start my home recording.
Some great tips. I recently recorded a riff in standard tuning and another guitar in dropped d. It works well. My only gripe with multi tracking guitars is the dynamics are more difficult to control, I can see why automation would be used as a result.
Awesome video, thanks for sharing these tips! I love the sound of double tracking but also want to add that when recording something with very stop start rhythm, it can be hard to get a second take that lines up close enough. For those situations, it can definitely be helpful to simply copy the track, shift it in time a bit and mess with the EQ to make it sound really different. It's not exactly the same effect but similar and still a very cool thing to do.
Nice tips Dan. What I'm doing is running stereo rig with 2 different amps with sligthly different eq and gain plus I set up a slight latency between the the two outputs so that it sounds as if there were 2 guitarists playing. It works great.
Hey Dan, sorry haven't been up on TPS videos of late but gotta say, this is the best I've seen in a long time, great subject and playing, also, keep that beard growing man Christmas will be here soon!
Great video Dan, as usual! I used to double track almost 90% of my rythm guitar tracks, but I didn't know all the tricks you have mentioned on your video. Can't wait to try to record two tracks with opposite eq settings! ;-)
Totally dug this. You really covered the main tricks. For the home studio cats who record acoustic via a pickup: keep doing that, but record the other track with the mic. Also: great to hear that Mallard again. Love that think and reminds me of the "old days' of TPS.
Never heard of this exact EQ trick before - will have to try it! I used to kinda do a similar thing in DAW by EQing guitars differently, making guitars dominate different sections of EQ spectrum.
Thanks Dan! I know a couple of players that kind of do the stereo thing live with various different pedals going to each channel to try an duplicate double tracking.
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"I Am Iron Dan" t-shirt is a must. You can have all my money.
Seconded - I'd buy that for (more than) a dollar!
+1 on I am Iron Dad TShirt.
The way you explain it is like listening to an old friend giving you some life advice! Excellent video! Thank you!
Thanks for reminding us that what we hear on tracks is usually full of tricks to make things sound better!
Totally!
Exactly, I hate sometimes when you going for that sound of a song you like and it is hard to nail it. I found it is best to find a live version so I get a better idea of what it really sounds like assuming there is no trickery on stage, but that is getting harder. I can tell how much you love music the pain you are willing to endure for your craft Dan. 😁
@@super-v900email8 Some artists hire sidemen to play the double triple or quad tracks live...
Also, one recording tip, when doubling or layering guitars: Even if you use a different guitar or pedal, try switching speaker cabs, mic preamps, and especially microphones. Mics and pres have very specific frequency and transient responses, and if you layer several of them, it can all start to sound the same, even if using a different guitar... sometimes using the exact same setup with a different mic can sound more different than a different rig with the same mic.
Dan, I’d just like to say the effort and detail that goes into these videos that you and Mick do is insane. Rather than just show the detail of what you are talking about you have written a killer tune, recorded it to professional standards and made the video fun and interesting. Thanks so much for the work you (both) put in.
Cheers J, we try 🤓👍
As a final exam for my SAE Audio Engineering Diploma way back in 1985 I had to record 2 song tracks of a multi piece band. We had 16 track 1" tape, yay !!... The 1st song went down sweet with 7mics on drums, 3 guitar parts on a Fender Deluxe Reverb plus a bass track, a DX7 keyboard part, a Sax track and a few vocals.
On the 2nd song we laid down a number of tracks, and the control room suddenly burst into discussion that the lead guitar part wasn't quite right. Calming the disaster I said we could just re-lay the lead guitar part again, and easy peasy 4 minutes later I hit stop and rewind on the 16 track recorder.
Silly me didn't drop the fader of the first lead guitar part, and despite being panned hard left and right thankfully nobody noticed the near identical verse rhythm playing on both guitar parts. That was fine until the lead solo where the guitarist played a near totes diff accented solo. Everybody was stunned as the lead solo guitar swirled around the control room only to disappear back into rhythm sweetness at the end of the solo.
My Brisbane instructors were so impressed they gave me a teaching job at the Perth school, and the 1" multitrack master was taken to the UK.
I used six acoustic takes, each tuned two cents away (A 434Hz , 436, 438, 440, 442, and 444) and panned those across a mix. It made the deepest, most lush chorus I've ever heard,. Yet some how it was still subtle enough that it didn't dominate everything else.
Nice, need to try out. Thanks!
Very 👍
Dan, please, please, please make more recording/production videos like this. Fantastic!
if your EP sounds anything like this song i'll buy 15 copies. that was incredible Dan.
Cheers Jason 🤓🙏
Ah, a most excellent primer on double tracking. Thanks Dan! Watching this reminded me of a story from a ZZ Top documentary. While recording their first album, the recording engineer suggested double tracking Billy G's guitar part. The band's manager was dead set against it, but the band connived a plan to send the manager out for take-out barbecue at a restaurant some distance from the studio. While the manager was gone, Billy doubled his part and the rest is music legend and history. :-)
This story is awesome! Using BBQ to get tone is so on brand for them too.
As a long time guitar player but recording novice this episode just blew me away. Never even heard of Nashville tuning. All of this, just fantastic.
Great vlog! My five favourites
Double track with
1. Different guitars
2. Same guitar, different pickups (neck/bridge)
3. One fuzz, one ts (killer)
4. One bone-dry one very wet reverb
5. One slow vibrato one slight flange
And to quote the great mr Kaufman theres no end to the possibilities!!! (this is were the limitations of an analouge desk is helping)
Omg I laughed so much at the fan effect hahahaha Great stuff !!
Reminded me of Tommy Boy :)
When I was a kid that's how with did the Cylon voices from Battlestar Galactica! BY YOUR COMMAND! hahaha!
I’ve been double tracking for decades. Sometimes triple or quadruple using different amps and voicings etc for huge choruses. Today was literally the first time I’ve heard of “Nashville tuning”. I had to look it up. Fascinating.
One track with a single coil and another with a P90 😙👌*chef's kiss*
I've always been a huge fan of using a capo to spread an acoustic track out a bit, really gives it colour and depth, love it!
Great fun double tracking. Love Waves' artificial double tracker in Abbey Road series for vocals.
Also, the lighting in this video is really superb. The warmth and contrast with background gives it a nice intimacy and sophistication. Perfect compliment for your ever enthusiastic smiling face, Dan. Really enhances viewer experience.
Cheers, guys.
Please add to your "you asked us to try this" list. My wet/dry rig uses a TC Mimiq as the spilt after my drives (in 3 voice mode). It functions great as the wet/dry split, and then engage the Mimiq to bring the magic to the epic riffs. Thanks for another delightful escape!
So I have double tracked ambient pads by reversing the original and hard panning it with both of them put through massive reverb. Worked really well through the whole song.
More recently I used the same ambient pad but put them each through a different effect. Worked really well and created great movement especially in the verses. Unbelievable amounts of fun was had.
How is it that nearly every guitar channel grew subscribers like crazy during the pandemic, but not this one? TPS is one of the best channels out in youtube land!
Wow, that's a fantastic ending at 9:16 Dan
Cheers mate 🤓👍
Love both the Strymon Deco and the Keeley 30MS for this. Both are on my board.
Awesome video Dan!! Although you hear a lot of people talking about these techniques, I don't think they've ever been demonstrated so clearly!
Love these tips that can be done pretty easily with just a DAW and an extra pair of strings! That said...you've got me looking at that Keeley pedal
I have the Keeley 30ms and used the 2 amp splitter cable and internal pots, now I cant go back to one amp. Awesome demo Dan.
This is great, I was just planning on doing a cool Brian May double tracking solo for a school project when you uploaded this. Simply Amazing.
The longer the beard, the greater the tone guru. Excellent vlog as always!
Cheers V 👍
Dan you & Mick never-cease to amaze me. I loved seeing you get your: "Tony Iommi" on. Great stuff. My 1st pro-guitar was a cherry-red Gibson SG (because of Tony Iommi)
Appreciated the opening Sabbath reference when the examples leaned into a Masters of Reality vibe.
Great vid! Rhett Shull made a video on tracking guitars (and he mentioned double tracking) and a technique he uses is one guitar on one side and another guitar on the other. For example, tele on the left, les paul on the right. I think this is also great advice for people who are lucky enough to have two guitars!
TC Electronic Mimiq pedal, stereo setup essential. Thanks B K
Great video. The EQ trick is one I learned years ago, but as a way to take a mono sound and give it a “stereo” vibe.
I love double tracking when I record and these are fantastic tips to do it. The best part about this video is that it is beautifully presented, concise and has excellent audio examples showing exactly what's going on. Man you guys are so good at this.
Cheers mate 🤓🙏
Dan, that ending needs to be your video production monicker at the end of every video you make. An Ouwah Production. Priceless!
Hahahahh!!
Hope everything is okay over the pond. I feel lost without this show lol!!! Didn’t realize how important it was until last Monday didn’t happen or today
I know! What is going on?
This is great Dan! The fan outro was hilarious, I hope it didn't hurt!
I double track when recording, sometimes even triple. But I only did triples after using a TCE Mimiq pedal live in stereo (not the mini mimiq). It's so much fun that I bought the TC Duplicator pedal for my live vocals (for very occasional use. It's one of those effects that can be overused).
So now I will sometimes double track a counter melody vocal, or the harmony vocal on the bridge.
Strange that I watched a video the other day on a similar subject and commented _why cant you just copy and paste the same track, once panned left and once panned right and get the same effect_ You just explained it perfectly and expanded on it, thanks Dan.
Would love to see a follow-up to this with you guys and the TC Electronic Mimiq pedal and do a comparison between the studio and the pedal's performance. I know John Petrucci is using a Mimiq in his latest touring rig.
This may be the most aha! vid I’ve seen in awhile. Outstanding
Brill. :) Variation on #5, using EQ: when Rick Beato did Boston's "More than a Feeling" on his "What Makes This Song Great?" episode, he pulled out one electric guitar that was severely scooped, another than was dramatically mid-pushed ("lo-fi"). Sounded epic together. Of course. (Different result than Karnivool's alternate-band approach.)
MS30 an always on pedal on my board. Love it for my modest setup
Dan’s guitar sounding similar to Corrosion of Conformity’s guitar sound is something I never thought I’d hear. I love it!
I love the idea of the Nashville style
I play a Fender Stratocaster and I bought a $70 Strat copy (same colour combo, so that makes it sound better) from a pawn shop and set it up in Nashville tuning. Absolutely love it.
That modulated delay trick is awesome, will definitely be using that for live work to fill out a 3 piece!
Sounds amazing Dan with a little Boston-type flavour going on in some parts.
Mustang basses will be selling out all over the world. Wonderful video, Dan.
Hahah! Cheers Rick 🤓🙏
I was wondering if that was a Mustang. I want one.
@@JohnHorneGuitar It's a Squier Bronco, but essentially the same short scale thing.
I thought the experience in itself was amazing and you taught us something
thought i knew a good bit about guitar tracking but that eq trick blew my freaking mind thanks dude
Your ear for chord progressions is amazing!
Dan's playing has clearly matured with his beard.
@13:25 - Fans and beards - a winning combination :) :)
There might be gig next december...
Yeah, he’s a little slower for sure :-D
Thanks Dan! Excellent helps for a novice like me who wants to keep improving backing tracks for church singing when live musicians aren't available....you also diagnosed that I have an issue with my left PC speaker!! Thanks again.
One of my fav multiple-tracking techniques is to start by recording a straight track, placed in the center of the stereo mix. Then I record two more tracks, panned right & left, one recorded with the recording gizmo running a little fast and the other with it running a little slow. The slight pitch differences add extra movement, and the center track lets me control the intensity of the effect: more center in the mix for less intensity, or vice versa. Picked this up from an old interview with Lindsey Buckingham.
Nice!
Awesome video! - I recently got a Strymon DECO doubletracker pedal. Man, that thing sounds like it was dipped in magic sauce. The flanging by toe feature is out of this world. I have a Catalinbread Zeropoint as well, it's very cool but the DECO is king to my ears. Your jam tune was cool too.
Love the show. One thing that comes to mind are bands like Rush that routinely used two delays set milliseconds a part. Say the left set to 79ms and the right set to 85ms (I’m just choosing random values) and processing stereo signals to mono tracks then panning them hard left and right.
That's why, when recording 2 rock guitars, you change amp and cab for the double, as it enriches the sound tremendoulsy. Kinda like the EQ example. Apart from that it's the "play the same, but somewhere else" which does the trick.
Way cool, especially the EQ alternation trick! Was hoping for some TC Mimiq love here but perhaps that's too obvious a suggestion? Cheers!
I have literally just bought a second boss katana to play around with the stereo expand feature and a MIMIQ pedal to try out the double tracking features in stereo.
Definitely going to try that EQ trick!
Thanks for another great episode. Have you heard about the TC Electronic Mimiq Doubler. It does exactly that...
In my former band we found that two guitarist playing different style amps worked really well. A vox ac30 style amp and a Fender Hotrod Deluxe. Different style of overdrive as well. He played TC electronic Alberta and mudhoney on strats and les pauls for lead stuff while I played Fulltone OCD on a tele for rythm stuff.
Nice one, Dan. I've often tracked left hand channel with reverb in right, right hand channel with reverb in left and just to go OTT, an almost dry track in the centre. It sounds HUGE.
Lovely!
KEEP. THIS. SERIES. GOING.
Excellent video!
Bloody brilliant video, Dan.
It’s so TPS to start by reminding us of how good something so simple can be (of course it is, every Beatles record can’t be wrong) then to kick it up eight notches. I have been arsing about in my bedroom studio for a decade and never thought about simple and obvious stuff like double tracking multiple chord voicings.
There’s so much practical value on this channel.
Nothing extreme about this video, this is extremely good. Absolute class as usual
Some great tips. I also find that double tracking with different pickups, changing amps, or using different amounts of gain really helps get the most out of double tracking.
More like this please. I love distilled wisdom. Actually I like a lot of distilled things....
Thank you for these fantastic insights. And that beard is GLORIOUS!!!!!!
Thanks Sasha 🤓👍
Didn't know about the EQ trick, thank you very much, Dan!
Just when I was about to ask about phasing, he went there. A great tutorial!
Double tracking with two different guitars is a nice effect too. Kudos to You Dan for making a very informative video!
Put your money where your mouth is, double track an entire episode of TPS.
🤣
Hahahahhahah
You just know that, apart from the logistics giving him nightmares, Mick is thinking, “I wonder if we could do a sneaky 30-second double track of the guitars when we are playing with a new pedal on the show, and see if anyone notices...”
Hahaha....wicked !
Dan and Mick saying the exact same thing, one panned left and one panned right?
I apparently love double tracking too! So much fun to do and such amazing effects to be had. Good on you for spreading the good word :)
Great tips Dan, for someone starting to record our band demos this is gold.
Good on you, Dan - a masterclass/how too, delivered in less than quarter of an hour!
Defo another episode for the TPS University syllabus.
Echoes of so many of the behemoth players from across the ages in each one of your suggestions. Like a game of top trumps for recording techniques used by legendary guitarists. Great work, Sir!
Cheers Larry 🤓👍
Double tracking is brilliant! Ever since I was at College back when I was 18 (bloody ten years ago now!) I learned about it and I've never done a recording session or writing session without it - It's hugely rewarding to feel that wall of sound back at you with all those glorious textures! One thing I've been having a play around with recently is double tracking the rhythm parts left and right hard panned, and then adding a third guitar track in the middle playing rhythm and any lead textures - It's not something I'd use all the time, but it's been fun to mess around with to create a thicker guitar sound!
DUDE! Awesome! I was tortured by your intro... My Custom Shop SG Jr has been sitting at home unopened since Monday since I've been on the road on work. Much schwangage to come!
Thanks for the idea Dan! Gave me an idea to our next recording project. Stay safe! Cheers! Regards to Mick!
Great video! Another cool double tracking technique that I’ll use when recording is to do one take on the neck pickup, double the track that, then do another track on the neck and middle and double track that. Really thickens up guitars and works great in the mix. Perfect for cleans. You can use any combinations of pickups too, on humbucker guitars, single coils etc.
Outstanding! I've been enjoying recording at home more since we can't gig and double tracking is big fun. Bonus - recording has helped me play more simply (not over play) and play cleaner. Definitely hours well spent.
I use to split my guitar signal after the preamp section (peavey tube amp). One signal goes back (throug modulation pedals) to the power section. The second signal goes to a Boss Katana solid state clean channel with its own mod effects. Sounds great both in recording an live as well.
Great video Dan. Really to the point and informative! A deeper dive into the Keeley double tracker might be nice some time. Cheers.
Thank you Dan I appreciate what you and Mick do, your the man Dan, this show has been a huge outlet for me. Thank you guys so much, I appreciate you.
Ah, cheers Michael, you’re most welcome 🙏
really interesting, thanks. A few ideas I haven't tried before like flipping the phase on a double tracked guitar. great stuff.
Top editing on this one Dan. Loved the final track too.
Huge sound!!!! Rick Beato, in one of his "what makes this song great" series described the double tracking of Van Halen's guitar in the first records, based on hard panning of two tracks, one dry and the other with reverb.
Great vid Dan as always! I’ve got a mimiq and a quintessence, for live stuff you can get similar effect to ‘2’ using quintessence going into mimiq - (try and come out using both stereo outs), this can give double track effect, then for solo have quintessence on moment mode. Be aware, on quintessence ‘dry’ comes out right, and the other way round on mimiq, I keep dry and wet signal separate.
Great primer! Obviously, using any of these techniques with different guitars (Les Paul,/Tele, acoustic/electric, bass/guitar), one guitar effected (Distortion, modulation, etc) the other less so or dry. Same principles, different execution. Any kind of harmony device, like pedal tones, counter point, intervals, etc. all variations on the theme.
Really nice post! Going to save this one for when I start my home recording.
Some great tips. I recently recorded a riff in standard tuning and another guitar in dropped d. It works well. My only gripe with multi tracking guitars is the dynamics are more difficult to control, I can see why automation would be used as a result.
The mirrored EQ pedal trick was new to me - charming idea! Thanks for the brilliant video, Dan!
Awesome. Great tips. Love the Bronco bass. I use the same thing! Cheapest guitar in my collection ($75 used!)
Awesome video, thanks for sharing these tips! I love the sound of double tracking but also want to add that when recording something with very stop start rhythm, it can be hard to get a second take that lines up close enough. For those situations, it can definitely be helpful to simply copy the track, shift it in time a bit and mess with the EQ to make it sound really different. It's not exactly the same effect but similar and still a very cool thing to do.
Nice tips Dan. What I'm doing is running stereo rig with 2 different amps with sligthly different eq and gain plus I set up a slight latency between the the two outputs so that it sounds as if there were 2 guitarists playing. It works great.
I've used some of these tricks with vocals, but haven't thought of using the eq in this way on guitar. Thank you again for the vlog.
Hey Dan, sorry haven't been up on TPS videos of late but gotta say, this is the best I've seen in a long time, great subject and playing, also, keep that beard growing man Christmas will be here soon!
Great video Dan, as usual! I used to double track almost 90% of my rythm guitar tracks, but I didn't know all the tricks you have mentioned on your video. Can't wait to try to record two tracks with opposite eq settings! ;-)
Tons of ideas and, dare I say, revelations, thank you Dan! I will definitely use some of these!
You’re most welcome 🙏
Great video - loved the eq idea - I do use the Mimiq for double track sound which is fun
Totally dug this. You really covered the main tricks. For the home studio cats who record acoustic via a pickup: keep doing that, but record the other track with the mic. Also: great to hear that Mallard again. Love that think and reminds me of the "old days' of TPS.
Never heard of this exact EQ trick before - will have to try it! I used to kinda do a similar thing in DAW by EQing guitars differently, making guitars dominate different sections of EQ spectrum.
I love heavy metal stuff that’s double-tracked with acoustic and distorted electric. Such a unique sound and effect.
Thanks Dan! I know a couple of players that kind of do the stereo thing live with various different pedals going to each channel to try an duplicate double tracking.