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Whilst I've been playing for ages, I'm new to recording, and am currently putting together some demo tracks for my band.
I'm the only guitarist in the band, and live I sort of flit between rhythm guitar, but with some lead lines thrown in here and there. And got a few thoughts/questions.
1) For the recording I'm not sure if I'd be better off doing a Double track (panned left and right) of the rhythm & twiddles as the songs would be played live, or double tracking just the rhythm, and adding the 'lead' lines down the middle?
2) There are a few sections in the songs where Id like to have some stereo effects going on (a clean ambient bit, a bouncy delay intro). If I take the stereo output from my interface (helix), would a single track set to centre still provide the stereo fx, or would I need to send out1 to left and out2 to right, on separate tracks?
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2) I don't own a Helix but I'd expect stereo effects to work in a track set to centre and recorded in stereo
I'll give both a go, just quite like to hear views from the more experienced like am I trying to over complicate things, is it gonna get too crowded in mix etc.
If it's for a studio sound then you can multi track easily - you could quad track rhythm guitars 2 left and 2 right and add centre lead with clarity.
If its to give an impression of what your live performance is like then double tracked live takes might work better. It might sound a bit sparse/raw which could be a good thing or naff thing depending on the material.
I would consider trying both. Sometimes the next results could be from a different approach to what you think may be best.
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I'll be taking dry tracks from all the guitar and bass lines (helix makes it very easy), I don't have native but re-amping is also pretty simple by the looks of it.
Have got a friend who's going to be doing the main mix, but still wanna see how good a result I can get myself.
I guess we're trying to go for a more professional representation of the live show, which is very raw and somewhat chaotic, but by no means be an ultra polished quantized masterpiece.
Maybe aiming for something alice in chains / early mastodon esq, where its like the music is punching you in the chest