Stack Guitars Like This for HUGE Tone

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  • Опубликовано: 4 янв 2025
  • Give your mix depth with this guitar and synth layering trick.
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Комментарии • 66

  • @hardcoremusicstudio
    @hardcoremusicstudio  4 месяца назад +2

    Grab your free Mixing Cheatsheet to learn the go-to starting points for EQ and compression in heavy mixes: hardcoremusicstudio.com/mixcheatsheet

  • @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn
    @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn 4 месяца назад +11

    That synth bass takes me back to Commodore 64 days! 😁

  • @morganbaker3808
    @morganbaker3808 3 месяца назад +2

    Jaw dropping mix, my brother. Drums sound massive as well. As well as everything else. If you don't have a full mix breakdown on this, you need it.

  • @Middlestepofficial
    @Middlestepofficial 3 месяца назад +6

    This is an age old trick. I was adding sometimes a piano with the low end to fill the gap in the low mids that overlap between the bass and guitar, which usually are taken out with an eq. Something like in the song "Paradise" by Bleed From Within. You can get insanely massive tones by enhancing the bass midrange.

    • @artemyeden
      @artemyeden 3 месяца назад

      Yeah, Slipknot uses this piano trick in Before i Forget (especially bridge park). Distorted piano root notes as a "baritone" layer between guitars and bass works really well. I even made a preset called "Rubin Piano" and use it quite often.

  • @1VERZHN
    @1VERZHN 4 месяца назад +17

    I layer to layer. I need to write the songs first, i try to make it sound cool before it’s done😂 this was great info

    • @SaltSpirits
      @SaltSpirits 4 месяца назад +5

      best switch to my production workflow was writing out entire tracks in piano before i ever touched anything like sound design or layering or even drums. focus purely on the melody and harmonies and how they mix and what they make you feel. and then everything else just has to support that

    • @jessegrisham
      @jessegrisham 4 месяца назад +2

      The song itself is the most important part!

    • @rmp5s
      @rmp5s 3 месяца назад

      I do the same exact thing! That's how you come up with the best ideas sometimes, though. It's all about what you do with the idea. 👍

  • @elvismolinatv
    @elvismolinatv 4 месяца назад +2

    This was amazing ! I would love to see how the vocals was mixed on this, they sound awesome!

  • @matthewhoffman4675
    @matthewhoffman4675 Месяц назад

    This is fantastic! I don't really listen to this type of music but I'm going to listen to this all day tomorrow! Also, gold standard mixing and production!

  • @RickMazz
    @RickMazz 12 дней назад

    Nice to see someone using Trillian. That suite is amazing!

  • @greghillmusic
    @greghillmusic 4 месяца назад +3

    I love it. Good content. No click-bait. That's WHY I clicked. Thank you.

  • @timinglismusic6707
    @timinglismusic6707 4 месяца назад

    Awesome vide, mate. Loving your sound too. You're absolutely spot on about how much of a role arrangement and sonic choices play in getting that massive sound.

  • @unlockedaudio5109
    @unlockedaudio5109 4 месяца назад +3

    I always forget about Vitamin. It’s a really great plug to focus instruments with really complex frequencies, especially sub bass. Great, clean mix man.

  • @anyoneanyone28
    @anyoneanyone28 3 месяца назад

    This is the best guitar layering video I’ve ever seen

  • @art-uhr
    @art-uhr 4 месяца назад +1

    awesome! as expected… it is always mastering the fundamentals what gives you leeway to more interesting stuff… RJ is always killing it!!🔥

  • @J_a_k_e388
    @J_a_k_e388 4 месяца назад

    Watching the "SYNTHS" meter dance at 14:37 was so entertaining 😂. It was having so much fun jamming! Great sound and great video. Will look yall up on Spotify!

  • @officialWWM
    @officialWWM Месяц назад +1

    Very clever.

  • @jessegrisham
    @jessegrisham 4 месяца назад

    Dope song bro!!!! You killed that. LOVE the vocals

  • @chris_share
    @chris_share 4 месяца назад +2

    Nice combination of pop and rock production techniques! I really like the low guitar tone - how was it recorded? Cheers!

  • @Yageewiraya
    @Yageewiraya 4 месяца назад +1

    very awesome song and sounds killer!! good job RJ

  • @mozwall_2560
    @mozwall_2560 Месяц назад

    Such a good song!

  • @counterspellband
    @counterspellband 4 месяца назад

    Badass concept and great tune

  • @joeaabye9311
    @joeaabye9311 3 месяца назад

    Adding that wind chime effect is crazy

  • @1VERZHN
    @1VERZHN 4 месяца назад +1

    That sounds killer🤘🤘

  • @paulsmith1052
    @paulsmith1052 4 месяца назад

    That is awesome you did this with your student.

  • @Walid.OnTheTrack6725
    @Walid.OnTheTrack6725 4 месяца назад

    well done stuff, beautiful

  • @cheribarkman1784
    @cheribarkman1784 3 месяца назад

    Thank you

  • @АлександрАртамонов-ф7ц

    So cool sound 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @kinghengkeithleung3931
    @kinghengkeithleung3931 4 месяца назад

    very insightful - thank you

  • @dshredmusic
    @dshredmusic 4 месяца назад +3

    Insaaaane stuff! Holy hell!
    That's the kind of fruit you reap out of stepping away from the ordinary.

    • @dshredmusic
      @dshredmusic 4 месяца назад

      Question... Were the EQ's set to linear phase, given the layering? Or no? And why.
      Please and thanks! :D

    • @coeuechtritz311
      @coeuechtritz311 3 месяца назад +1

      stepping away from the ordinary, everybody does this and has been for the last twenty years, this is so generic

    • @LuLeBe
      @LuLeBe Месяц назад

      ​@@dshredmusicno you don't need linear phase. Do you think anything was ever in phase with anything else there? We're talking about guitars (their phase is pretty random already given the double tracked real performance) and saw stacks (probably the most "phase-less" think you'll ever see) plus other pretty diverse sounds like the wind chimes.
      You might want linear phase EQ when layering two kicks that should stay aligned. But these details don't matter at all in 99% of cases. Take the easy route first (normal EQ) and only when you notice "wow it suddenly sounds so bad when I use the EQ" you could try linear phase.

  • @danielfilipepro
    @danielfilipepro 4 месяца назад

    cool video. nice stuff

  • @dakota-sessions
    @dakota-sessions 4 месяца назад +2

    that's HUGE!

  • @tomthowi3280
    @tomthowi3280 4 месяца назад

    Good Job 👍

  • @drrodopszin
    @drrodopszin 4 месяца назад +2

    What's your opinion on live reproducibility? How far a band can deviate from things that can be performed live?

    • @officialWWM
      @officialWWM Месяц назад +1

      Don’t even think about that. They are 2 different things. Also, unless you have hundreds of thousands of fans, there’s a good chance most of your live audiences have never even heard your recordings! Just make the best record you can, then do the best cover of it you can when playing live :)

  • @4rg0nnnnnnn
    @4rg0nnnnnnn 3 месяца назад

    Thanks now I can make stuff that sounds like Porter’s album Smile

  • @coeuechtritz311
    @coeuechtritz311 3 месяца назад

    good luck playing that live

  • @coeuechtritz311
    @coeuechtritz311 3 месяца назад

    i love how youre like i added upper harmonics to the symnth bass because i wants ed it to be heard when actually you just wanted a wall of sound and also the guitars and that sawtooth wave synth is doing job was to occupy those ranges. i think youre just parroting stuff from someone but you dont actually really understand whats going on.

  • @thecordels
    @thecordels 4 месяца назад +1

    Top content as always! Will be giving this a blast tonight :)

  • @davidcasagrande267
    @davidcasagrande267 3 месяца назад +2

    Maybe I am real old school , BUT, why do so many people mix the vocals so far back in the mix. I can hear the snare drum louder the the vocals ??????????????

  • @MrMockigton
    @MrMockigton 4 месяца назад +4

    notice how the base guitar sound is thick and chunky as fuck. not completely f***** by eq. just a raw, powerful sound, good from the getgo.

    • @officialWWM
      @officialWWM Месяц назад +1

      Probably because it’s not actually a bass 😂

  • @Laptops1781
    @Laptops1781 4 месяца назад +1

    Forgive my ignorance, are rhythm guitars generally recorded in stereo?

    • @guitarplayer5932
      @guitarplayer5932 4 месяца назад +2

      its common

    • @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn
      @Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn 4 месяца назад +10

      Doubled usually. Play it once, pan left, play it again, pan right.

    • @stemdog
      @stemdog 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn thats usually what i do. Leave a lot of room for leads and vocals in the middle i find

    • @SonarHD
      @SonarHD 4 месяца назад +4

      No, they aren’t.
      He consolidated them into a single stereo track, but they are double tracked and panned L & R. It makes no sense to track electric guitars in stereo since they don’t offer any stereo information.
      You might see acoustic guitars (or other acoustic instruments) being recorded in stereo, but that’s different because you’re purposely micing it in stereo (for example, AB, XY, M/S, etc) to get a fuller sound. However, just because you can doesn’t mean you should since adding such recordings to a dense song may cause masking issues during mixing. You’d typically use stereo instruments to fill up a space, which is what he did with synths.

    • @peptoattack
      @peptoattack 4 месяца назад +7

      Just to complement what everyone else said, the reason why you just don't record stereo is because the info will still be mono, so both channels will sound exactly the same. That's why you double it, became there will always be a difference between one take (mono, R) and the other take (mono, L), offering a rich "true" stereo feeling.

  • @NielsJulian
    @NielsJulian 4 месяца назад

    very valuable content

  • @guitarplayer5932
    @guitarplayer5932 4 месяца назад +1

    fernway ?

  • @GuyXVIII
    @GuyXVIII 3 месяца назад

    Cool tricks but his guitars are like 6db louder then the rest of the mix. Of course, he's the guitarist...

  • @coeuechtritz311
    @coeuechtritz311 3 месяца назад +10

    "like most pop music these days" over compressed with generic sounds and even more generic lyrics

    • @michaelgormleymusic
      @michaelgormleymusic 3 месяца назад +9

      Feel free to go make your own groundbreaking unique never heard before earth moving masterpiece.

    • @Heheha329
      @Heheha329 3 месяца назад

      I get the it about the generic sounds and lyrics but this kind of compression has merit.

  • @Jazzguitar00
    @Jazzguitar00 4 месяца назад +4

    Ah yes, the world needed another song with a I - V - vi -IV progression. 🙄

    • @gabrielstaniecki
      @gabrielstaniecki 4 месяца назад +9

      you can always invent new notes and make new chords out of them :)

    • @eyeslikeoceans
      @eyeslikeoceans 3 месяца назад +2

      I’m so sick of rock songs with kicks and snares too