Stack Guitars Like This for HUGE Tone
Give your mix depth with this guitar and synth layering trick.
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Music Featured in this Video: To Be Somewhere Else by Fernway https://open.spotify.com/track/0G4ik0Kh5xznaJxfzAmLTB?si=e170e562c53a409e
Watch This Next: From $50 to $600 per song – and quit my job! – RJ https://youtu.be/03EgEankHE4
Music I’ve Worked On: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6I7P7AIIWRB6ocsjQjGPKX?si=e89941db94084b03
Website: https://hardcoremusicstudio.com
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MY FAVORITE GEAR:
Computer / Interface:
Mac M1 Studio Max https://sweetwater.sjv.io/anOMOo
Avid Carbon https://sweetwater.sjv.io/ZQ6M6g
Apogee Duet 3 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/y2qXqb
Monitors / Headphones:
Avantone CLA-10a https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WqyMyZ
Audio Technica ATH-M50 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyOMON
Microphones:
Shure SM57 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/daOMy7
AKG D112 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Kj0MBy
Sennheiser e604 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKyvWa
Shure SM7b https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5g5vk3
AKG C451b https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jre9Rv
Shure SM81 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eK1LnD
Audio Technica AT4050 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/JzKMqr
Preamps/Outboard:
API 3124 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/eK1LRD
EL8 Distressor https://sweetwater.sjv.io/XYmMd4
Favorite Plugins:
BSA Clipper https://blacksaltaudio.com/clipper
Escalator https://blacksaltaudio.com/escalator
Low Control https://blacksaltaudio.com/low-control
Silencer https://blacksaltaudio.com/silencer
DSR https://blacksaltaudio.com/dsr
Waves SSL Bundle https://waves.alzt.net/dMd4q
Waves CLA Compressors https://waves.alzt.net/0va0P
Waves Platinum https://waves.alzt.net/jxz2M
Slate Trigger 2 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MmAM53
SoundToys Rack https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xkLgyd
Auto-tune Pro https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OreMYr
Vocalign Project https://sweetwater.sjv.io/xkLgyA
Cranesong Phoenix II https://sweetwater.sjv.io/PyOMrz
Instruments / Amps:
Ludwig Black Beauty Snare https://sweetwater.sjv.io/1r9vDR
Gibson Les Paul https://sweetwater.sjv.io/B0nvz1
Evertune Guitars https://sweetwater.sjv.io/WqyM6P
Fender Jazz Bass https://sweetwater.sjv.io/nLX5R6
Sansamp Bass Driver DI https://sweetwater.sjv.io/OreM9Q
EVH 5150 https://sweetwater.sjv.io/4PGvr9
Mesa 2×12 cab https://sweetwater.sjv.io/75avGA
#Stack #Guitars #HUGE #Tone
Originally posted by UCb-ISKOACgJCOtQ9vO_99QQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj5ZwbgUPJ8
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"like most pop music these days" over compressed with generic sounds and even more generic lyrics
i love how youre like i added upper harmonics to the symnth bass because i wants ed it to be heard when actually you just wanted a wall of sound and also the guitars and that sawtooth wave synth is doing job was to occupy those ranges. i think youre just parroting stuff from someone but you dont actually really understand whats going on.
good luck playing that live
If this band plays live and doesn't mash-up "teenage dirtbag" somewhere, it's a missed opportunity. Great mix, my dude! #beefy
Cool tricks but his guitars are like 6db louder then the rest of the mix. Of course, he's the guitarist…
Also, This technique was actually invented by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. He would cut all the freqs but the higher mids and then layer with synths
I do a very similar technique. I play metal so I use Decapitator over saw synths and octave or two lower than the Rythym guitar, playing note for note and then blend them together and it really fills out those frequencies and makes them sound huge.
Adding that wind chime effect is crazy
Thanks now I can make stuff that sounds like Porter’s album Smile
This is an age old trick. I was adding sometimes a piano with the low end to fill the gap in the low mids that overlap between the bass and guitar, which usually are taken out with an eq. Something like in the song "Paradise" by Bleed From Within. You can get insanely massive tones by enhancing the bass midrange.
Awesome vide, mate. Loving your sound too. You're absolutely spot on about how much of a role arrangement and sonic choices play in getting that massive sound.
Badass concept and great tune
Dope song bro!!!! You killed that. LOVE the vocals
Watching the "SYNTHS" meter dance at 14:37 was so entertaining ????. It was having so much fun jamming! Great sound and great video. Will look yall up on Spotify!
well done stuff, beautiful
Good Job ????
This was amazing ! I would love to see how the vocals was mixed on this, they sound awesome!
very insightful – thank you
What's your opinion on live reproducibility? How far a band can deviate from things that can be performed live?
I always forget about Vitamin. It’s a really great plug to focus instruments with really complex frequencies, especially sub bass. Great, clean mix man.
So cool sound ????????????????
very awesome song and sounds killer!! good job RJ
cool video. nice stuff
Nice combination of pop and rock production techniques! I really like the low guitar tone – how was it recorded? Cheers!
Ah yes, the world needed another song with a I – V – vi -IV progression. ????
Insaaaane stuff! Holy hell!
That's the kind of fruit you reap out of stepping away from the ordinary.
That synth bass takes me back to Commodore 64 days! ????
That is awesome you did this with your student.
I layer to layer. I need to write the songs first, i try to make it sound cool before it’s done???? this was great info
That sounds killer????????
notice how the base guitar sound is thick and chunky as fuck. not completely f*** by eq. just a raw, powerful sound, good from the getgo.
fernway ?
Forgive my ignorance, are rhythm guitars generally recorded in stereo?
awesome! as expected… it is always mastering the fundamentals what gives you leeway to more interesting stuff… RJ is always killing it!!????
that's HUGE!
very valuable content
Top content as always! Will be giving this a blast tonight 🙂
I love it. Good content. No click-bait. That's WHY I clicked. Thank you.