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00:02 - Hi, hello, welcome.
00:06 It is Ace here.
00:07 Again, we are in Metropolis Studios in London
00:11 and doing some kind of tricky tricks and techniques
00:15 for guitars that you might wanna pick up on.
00:18 Today, I'm gonna talk about tracking,
00:20 simple tracking really.
00:22 Basically about what I'm using is
00:24 I'm just gonna use one guitar and one amp, okay?
00:26 But to make a kind of a bit of a kind of concise full sound.
00:30 So first of all, I am going to track the guitar
00:33 with single coils.
00:34 So you can either do like a Les Paul and a Telecaster,
00:37 or you can just use one guitar
00:39 that you can change to pick up chords.
00:40 And I'm gonna use one amp
00:41 and not change the sound of the amp.
00:42 So if I switch my guitar into single coils now,
00:46 so they're not the humbuckers anymore.
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00:50 I'll get a bit of a more toppy, sparkly,
00:54 thinner kind of sound,
00:55 similar to what I would get from a Telecaster, okay?
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01:00 And what I'm gonna do is
01:03 I'm gonna track the chords with that.
01:05 So I'm talking like the open chords,
01:07 so the more jangly kind of stuff.
01:08 So I've got a nice, bright, jangly sound on top.
01:11 Then afterwards, what I'm gonna do
01:14 is I'm gonna track the same thing,
01:16 but I'm gonna go and use some like root and fifths.
01:19 So you know, these kind of chords.
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01:23 So they're like reinforcement chords,
01:25 and I'm gonna play them on the humbucker sound.
01:27 So I've got a kind of a cross between a Telecaster
01:30 mixed with a humbucker.
01:31 And what I'll get there is I'll get all the mids,
01:34 I'll get the highs, I'll get the lows,
01:35 and it will sound like one big, huge guitar
01:38 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.
01:46 I'll play along first of all with the single coil,
01:48 and that will be the chord sequences.
01:51 Then I'm gonna play along with the humbucker afterwards
01:54 and track against it with the root and fifths.
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01:59 Okay, I'm gonna now track on top of that
02:07 and I'm going to use root and fifths now.
02:10 So just simple notes so that we can basically blend in,
02:15 not that of tune with it, but make it really solid.
02:18 I'm using humbuckers now, okay?
02:20 So I've switched into humbuckers, same amp, same setting.
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02:25 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 gonna be a humbucker played in root and fifths
02:46 on the left hand side.
02:47 So we should have a really massive sounding
02:50 one guitar type of sound.
02:52 We're gonna separate them a little bit
02:53 just so it gives a bit of a stereo effect
02:55 and we're gonna put a guitar down the middle now.
02:57 So we're gonna play a bit of a solo
02:58 to see how it sounds against our really full rhythms now.
03:01 Okay, so on the solo, I'm gonna stick on a few effects
03:04 to make it a bit more exciting.
03:07 So let's have a bit of delay I think.
03:09 Maybe a bit of envelope and a bit of drive.
03:13 Okay, so let's see how this works on the track.
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03:25 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.
03:38 It's weighty, nothing conflicts,
03:40 got reinforcement in the sound.
03:41 And then when we put a solo on the top of it,
03:43 it really compliments and it works
03:45 with a few effects on top of it.
03:46 So that is my secret of quick tracking for rock songs
03:50 to make it sound good.
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