On Friday I told you my story of how I overcomplicated my guitar recording process when I first started out.
A great guitar sound is crucial for making a rock song sound huge. Turns out, making it big during tracking
goes A LONG WAY, and you'll get bigger and more bad-ass guitar sounds if you just don't try so hard to be cool.
Four mics on the guitar amplifier might look cool, but we're making music so all you'll be judged on is whether it sounds cool.
And although a quick dynamic in front of the sweet spot of the amplifier might not look as cool as a mic on every cone, it
will sound way cooler.
Sure, there are times when a second mic can come in handy. My go-to electric guitar amp technique is a dynamic and a ribbon blended together.
But if you're doing hard rock, sometimes a tightly double-tracked rhythm guitar recorded with one microphone is all you need.
That's exactly what Jordan Valeriote is teaching today in
his second hardcore tracking video workshop.
If you haven't seen the first couple videos, click here for his FREE, no-strings-attached recording workshop where you'll learn to get better sounds at the source. If you follow his techniques I wouldn't be surprised if your next raw recordings sound
better than some people's finished mixes.
