00:00Hi, hello, welcome. It is Ace here. Again we are in Metropolis Studios in London and doing some kind
00:12of tricky tricks and techniques for guitars that you might want to pick up on. Today I'm going to
00:19talk about tracking, simple tracking really. Basically about what I'm using is I'm just
00:24going to use one guitar and one amp, okay, but to make a kind of a bit of a kind of concise full sound.
00:30So first of all I am going to track the guitar with single coils. So you can either do like a
00:36Les Paul and a Telecaster or you can just use one guitar that you can change to pick up coils.
00:40And I'm going to use one amp and not change the sound of the amp. So if I switch my guitar
00:44into single coils now, so they're not the humbuckers anymore.
00:47I'll get a bit of a more toppy sparkly thinner kind of sound similar to what I would get from a
00:57Telecaster, okay. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to track the chords with that. So I'm talking
01:05like the open chords, so the more jangly kind of stuff. So I've got a nice bright jangly sound on
01:10top. Then afterwards what I'm going to do is I'm going to track the same thing but I'm going to go
01:17and use some like root and fifths. So, you know, these kind of chords.
01:23So they're like reinforcement chords and I'm going to play them on the humbucker sound.
01:27So I've got a kind of a cross between a Telecaster mixed with the humbucker and what I'll get there
01:32is I'll get all the mids, I'll get the highs, I'll get the lows and it will sound like one big huge
01:37guitar rather 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 that will
01:49be the chord sequences. Then I'm going to play along with the humbucker afterwards and track
01:54against it with the root and fifths.
01:56Okay, I'm going to now track on top of that and I'm going to use root and fifths now. So just simple
02:11notes so that we can basically blend in, not that out of tune with it but make it really solid. I'm
02:18using humbuckers now, okay. So I've switched into humbuckers, same amp, same setting.
02:37Okay, so we've got rhythm tracks down now. One is single coil on the right hand side maybe.
02:43One is going to be a humbucker played in root and fifths on the left hand side. So we should have a
02:48really massive sounding one guitar type of sound. We're going to separate them a little bit just
02:53so it gives a 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. Okay, so on
03:02the solo I'm going to stick on a few effects to make it a bit more exciting. So let's have a bit of
03:07delay I think. Maybe a bit of envelope and a bit of drive. Okay, so let's see how this works on
03:18the track.
03:25So we can see now that, yeah, it kind of works, doesn't it? It sounds like a really fat rhythm.
03:34It's got the tone of the top and the bottom in there. It's weighty, nothing conflicts. It's got
03:40reinforcement in the sound and then when we put a solo on the top of it, it really complements
03:44and it works with a few effects on top of it. So that is my secret of quick tracking for rock
03:49songs to make it sound good.
03:51It's got the sound good.
03:52I am good.
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03:55Have a great day.
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