Thank you, you beautiful bastard!!!

Thatbastarddon said:
Very cool!
Looks like we are in similar moods...but I'm not trying to write, really. I'm trying to convince myself to swap out these pickups...
Let's see if this works...

just noodling
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I wasn't really trying to write per se either, just learning about dubbing and poop. I am, however, in that mood......lol

One root. I decided to keep it as simple as possible for the purpose of this mission, no chord changes, no nothing....simply put a simple track down and attempt to build...

Your track sounds cool!
 
Yeah, I’m putting together a before and after pickup swap track...super simple progression, trying to use all positions, using some picking dynamics on the cleanish track, and super saturated track using bridge and neck pickups. Whenever I get around to swapping the pickups out, I’ll record another run at the two tracks, and alternate between them in the mix.
 
Thatbastarddon said:
Yeah, I’m putting together a before and after pickup swap track...super simple progression, trying to use all positions, using some picking dynamics on the cleanish track, and super saturated track using bridge and neck pickups. Whenever I get around to swapping the pickups out, I’ll record another run at the two tracks, and alternate between them in the mix.
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That sounds like an excellent plan for your purpose!
 
Yargnad said:
I'm not a fan of full hard panning most of the time. Some tracks sound okay that way, but I don't normally go any further than about 80%. A lot of the older recordings which sound awesome like that have some crossover effect between the stereo channels on the master bus which is missing in the digital realm unless you add it back.

Although crossover is technically a bad thing, it is really what made older analog recordings gel the way they do. There are even plugins which model the specific type of crossover bleed from specific famous mixing consoles like Neve or SSL.
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If I may throw in my penny's worth, and Yarg, please feel free to whack me on the head and correct me if I'm saying crap, but there's a trick that my boss / BFF (a much better guitarist himself than I could ever be) told me about having learned about in SOS: Of course, panning guitars to 9-10 on the L and 2-3 on the right works. But also when you double the guitar tracks, change something on the dubbed guitar's overall sound, eq, a different distortion, or just a nice crisp crunch to cut through the mix and give a more complex flavor to the final mixed sound. Throw even a subtle almost subliminal acoustic in nashville tuning buried in there. I believe that's one of Steven Wilson's go-to's.

OK... now let me run for cover, see if I can duck the whack from Yarg and Ramo! :p
 
SIx String Chef said:
If I may throw in my penny's worth, and Yarg, please feel free to whack me on the head and correct me if I'm saying crap, but there's a trick that my boss / BFF (a much better guitarist himself than I could ever be) told me about having learned about in SOS: Of course, panning guitars to 9-10 on the L and 2-3 on the right works. But also when you double the guitar tracks, change something on the dubbed guitar's overall sound, eq, a different distortion, or just a nice crisp crunch to cut through the mix and give a more complex flavor to the final mixed sound. Throw even a subtle almost subliminal acoustic in nashville tuning buried in there. I believe that's one of Steven Wilson's go-to's.

OK... now let me run for cover, see if I can duck the whack from Yarg and Ramo! :p
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And by the way, Gentlemen: really great track you recorded there. The sound, the progressions, the melodic lines, the structure all work beautifully. Something I would have loved to play in my saturday night radio show back in the old country (more than) a few years back!
 
SIx String Chef said:
If I may throw in my penny's worth, and Yarg, please feel free to whack me on the head and correct me if I'm saying crap, but there's a trick that my boss / BFF (a much better guitarist himself than I could ever be) told me about having learned about in SOS: Of course, panning guitars to 9-10 on the L and 2-3 on the right works. But also when you double the guitar tracks, change something on the dubbed guitar's overall sound, eq, a different distortion, or just a nice crisp crunch to cut through the mix and give a more complex flavor to the final mixed sound. Throw even a subtle almost subliminal acoustic in nashville tuning buried in there. I believe that's one of Steven Wilson's go-to's.

OK... now let me run for cover, see if I can duck the whack from Yarg and Ramo! :p
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I’m with you on the above...and as to tonal shifts of the supporting dub: different amps, or guitars, or selected pickup, or, or, or, or....you get the idea...the world is your oyster...
:cheers:
 
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