00:00Hi, hello, welcome. It is Ace here. Again, we are in Metropolis Studios in London and
00:12doing some kind of tricky tricks and techniques for guitars that you might want to pick up
00:17on. Today, I'm going to talk about tracking, simple tracking really. Basically, about what
00:23I'm using is I'm just going to use one guitar and one amp, okay, but to make a kind of a
00:27bit of a kind of concise full sound. So first of all, I am going to track the guitar with
00:33single coils. So you can either do like a Les Paul and a Telecaster, or you can just
00:38use one guitar that you can change to pick up chords. And I'm going to use one amp and
00:41not change the sound of the amp. So if I switch my guitar into single coils now, so they're
00:46not the humbuckers anymore, I get a bit of a more toppy, sparkly, thinner kind of sound,
00:56similar to what I would get from a Telecaster, okay? And what I'm going to do is I'm going
01:03to track the chords with that. So I'm talking like the open chords, so the more jangly kind
01:08of stuff. So I've got a nice, bright, jangly sound on top. Then afterwards, what I'm going
01:13to do is I'm going to track the same thing, but I'm going to go and use some like root
01:17and fifths. So, you know, these kind of chords. So they're like reinforcement chords, and
01:25I'm going to play them on the humbucker sound. So I've got a kind of a cross between a Telecaster
01:30mixed with a humbucker, and what I'll get there is I'll get all the mids, I'll get the
01:34highs, I'll get the lows, and it will sound like one big, huge guitar rather than two
01:39different ones, okay? So it's a tracking technique that I use a lot in the studio. So let's put
01:45a track up. I'll play along first of all with the single coil, and that will be the chord
01:50sequences. Then I'm going to play along with the humbucker afterwards and track against
01:54it with the root and fifths. Okay, I'm going to now track on top of that, and I'm going
02:08to use root and fifths now. So just simple notes so that we can basically blend in, not
02:16out of tune with it, but make it really solid. I'm using humbuckers now, okay? So I've switched
02:20into humbuckers, same amp, same setting. Okay, so we've got rhythm tracks down now.
02:39One is single coil on the right hand side maybe. One is going to be a humbucker played
02:45in root and fifths on the left hand side. So we should have a really massive sounding
02:50one guitar type of sound. We're going to separate them a little bit just so it gives
02:54a bit of a stereo effect, and we're going to put a guitar down the middle now. So we're
02:57going to play a bit of a solo to see how it sounds against our really full rhythms now.
03:01Okay, so on the solo I'm going to stick on a few effects to make it a bit more exciting.
03:07So let's have a bit of delay I think, maybe a bit of envelope, and a bit of drive. Okay,
03:17so let's see how this works on the track. So we can see now that, yeah, it kind of works,
03:32doesn't it? It sounds like a really fat rhythm. It's got the tone of the top and the bottom
03:37in there. It's weighty, nothing conflicts. It's got reinforcement in the sound, and then
03:41when we put a solo on the top of it, it really complements and it works with a few effects
03:45on top of it. So that is my secret of quick tracking for rock songs to make it sound good.
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