Making Guitars Sound Huge

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Making guitars sound huge. People think you need to add more guitar tracks to make them sound big. Every guitar has a certain character frequency that makes the sound of it just jump out at you. Whether you re working with a great recording or not. To make a lead or rhythm guitar sound huge you can close mic the speaker cabinet for the greatest punch and detail then add a stereo mic if you have one or a pair of microphones placed out in the room to capture the air or room ambience.
Get yourself back in the control room and tweak the mic amps to match the gain. Back to the daw. Listen to the cds that have big guitars and analyze what is making them sound so big. This simply means recording the part multiple times and then pan them to make it sound wide.
I actually recommend the opposite. So here we go. Do your processing on. When recording big electric guitar sounds one of the big keys is to make sure you double track guitars.
It s pretty hard to make a single tracked lead guitar part sound huge. Learn how to get your vocals to sound big present and in your face. I think the less guitars you have the bigger you can get. Bigger badder electric guitar make with the mikes.
You can do this by recording the exact same part twice or perhaps you record the same part with a different guitar or a different amp to give it a. Big guitars are a result of a proper arrangement as well as recording techniques. Instead just bring up the volume to hear your changes. Start off with one microphone.
Mute any unnecessary parts or microphones that aren t adding to the music or the mix. Regardless of the genre learn to make them sound huge. Every engineer has their favourite preamps for different recording tasks. This is a key technique for getting a big guitar sound.
If you only have one guitar taking up your left speaker and one guitar taking up your right speaker you can really push those as far up in the mix as you want.