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'll get a bit of a more toppy, sparkly, thinner kind of
00:55sound, similar to what I would get from a Telecaster, okay? And what I'm going to do
01:03is I'm going to track the chords with that. So I'm talking like the open chords, so the
01:07more jangly kind of stuff. So I've got a nice, bright, jangly sound on top. Then afterwards,
01:13what I'm going to do is I'm going to track the same thing, but I'm going to go and use
01:17some like root and fifths. So, you know, these kind of chords. So they're like reinforcement
01:25chords, and I'm going to play them on the humbucker sound. So I've got a kind of a cross
01:28between a Telecaster mixed with a humbucker, and what I'll get there is I'll get all the
01:33mids, I'll get the highs, I'll get the lows, and it will sound like one big, huge guitar
01:38rather than two different ones, okay? So it's a tracking technique that I use a lot in the
01:43studio. So let's put a track up. I'll play along first of all with the single coil, and
01:49that will be the chord sequences. Then I'm going to play along with the humbucker afterwards
01:54and track against it with the root and fifths.
02:01Okay, I'm going to now track on top of that, and I'm going to use root and fifths now.
02:10So just simple notes so that we can basically blend in. Not that I've tuned with it, but
02:17make it really solid. I'm using humbuckers now, okay? So I've switched into humbuckers.
02:21Same amp, same setting.
02:22Okay, so we've got rhythm tracks down now. One is single coil on the right hand side
02:42maybe. One is going to be a humbucker played in root and fifths on the left hand side.
02:47So we should have a really massive sounding one guitar type of sound. We're going to separate
02:52them a little bit just so it gives a bit of a stereo effect, and we're going to put a
02:55guitar down the middle now. So we're going to play a bit of a solo to see how it sounds
02:59against our really full rhythms now, okay? So on the solo, I'm going to stick on a few
03:04effects to make it a bit more exciting. So let's have a bit of delay, I think. Maybe
03:10a bit of envelope, and a bit of drive. Okay, so let's see how this works on the track.
03:30So we can see now that, yeah, it kind of works, doesn't it? It sounds like a really fat rhythm.
03:35It's got the tone of the top and the bottom in there. It's weighty. Nothing can flick.
03:39It's got reinforcement in the sound, and then when we put a solo on the top of it,
03:43it really complements and it works with a few effects on top of it. So that is my secret
03:48of quick tracking for rock songs to make it sound good.
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