00:00 Hi, hello, welcome.
00:06 It is Ace here.
00:07 Again, we are in Metropolis Studios in London and doing some kind of tricky tricks and techniques
00:15 for guitars that you might want to pick up on.
00:17 Today I'm going to talk about tracking, simple tracking really.
00:22 Basically about what I'm using is I'm just going to use one guitar and one amp, okay,
00:26 but to make a kind of a bit of a kind of concise full sound.
00:29 So first of all, I am going to track the guitar with single coils.
00:34 So you can either do like a Les Paul and a Telecaster or you can just use one guitar
00:38 that you can change to pick up chords.
00:40 And I'm going to use one amp and not change the sound of the amp.
00:42 So if I switch my guitar into single coils now, so they're not the humbuckers anymore,
00:52 I get a bit of a more toppy, sparkly, thinner kind of sound, similar to what I would get
00:56 from a Telecaster, okay?
01:02 What I'm going to do is I'm going to track the chords with that.
01:05 So I'm talking like the open chords, so the more jangly kind of stuff.
01:08 So I've got a nice bright jangly sound on top.
01:12 Then afterwards, what I'm going to do is I'm going to track the same thing, but I'm going
01:16 to go and use some like root and fifths.
01:18 So you know, these kind of chords.
01:23 So they're like reinforcement chords and I'm going to play them on the humbucker sound.
01:27 So I've got a kind of a cross between a Telecaster mixed with a humbucker.
01:31 And what I'll get there is I'll get all the mids, I'll get the highs, I'll get the lows,
01:35 and it will sound like one big huge guitar rather than two different ones, okay?
01:40 So it's a tracking technique that I use a lot in the studio.
01:43 So let's put a track up.
01:45 I'll play along first of all with the single coil and that will be the chord sequences.
01:51 Then I'm going to play along with the humbucker afterwards and track against it with the root
01:55 and fifths.
02:00 Okay, I'm going to now track on top of that and I'm going to use root and fifths now.
02:10 So just simple notes so that we can basically blend in, not that of tune with it, but make
02:17 it really solid.
02:18 I'm using humbuckers now, okay?
02:20 So I've switched into humbuckers, same amp, same setting.
02:37 Okay so we've got rhythm tracks down now.
02:39 One is single coil on the right hand side maybe.
02:43 One is going to be a humbucker played in root and fifths on the left hand side.
02:47 So we should have a really massive sounding one guitar type of sound.
02:51 We're going to separate them a little bit just so it gives a bit of a stereo effect
02:55 and we're going to put a guitar down the middle now.
02:56 So we're going to play a bit of a solo to see how it sounds against our really full
03:00 rhythms now.
03:01 Okay, so on the solo I'm going to stick on a few effects to make it a bit more exciting.
03:07 So let's have a bit of delay I think.
03:10 Maybe a bit of envelope and a bit of drive.
03:15 Okay, so let's see how this works on the track.
03:30 So we can see now that yeah, it kind of works, doesn't it?
03:33 It sounds like a really fat rhythm.
03:35 It's got the tone of the top and the bottom in there.
03:37 It's weighty, nothing can flick.
03:39 It's got reinforcement in the sound and then when we put a solo on the top of it, it really
03:43 compliments and it works with a few effects on top of it.
03:46 So that is my secret of quick tracking for rock songs to make it sound good.
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