12Tracking Electric and Bass Guitar
After recording the drums, the microphone set-up procedure for recording guitars may seem like a walk in the park. However, you are not out of the woods yet! When recording guitars, we have a completely different evil to deal with: the search for the perfect signal chain. As you are about to learn, the tonal variations that can be achieved through the combination and configuration of guitar, amp and effects chain are astonishing!
For instance, if you are going for a lightly driven late ’60s-sounding tone in the verse of a song, I’d consider tracking with a Fender Telecaster guitar through a Fender amp with the majority of drive coming from a classic overdrive pedal. In contrast to this, for a double-tracked ...
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