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#21
And I said:
My advice: do not stereo mic the lead guitar. Do not use the Nady condenser mics on guitar cabs. Don't use them on anything if you can avoid it. Use one of those AKGs on each guitar cab. Move the mics around to find the sweet sounding spot in front of the speaker. If you want a stereo effect on the lead guitar during solos, a little bit of stereo delay will do nicely. Having stereo guitar tracks is going to make it difficult to mix (unless you are to pan both of the mics to the same spot or very close to each other). Compression during tracking is pretty standard in most "pro" recording setups. But make sure to be gentle with the ratio / subtle with the amount of gain reduction unless you're sure a more aggressive compression approach will work in your mix.
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That's probably a good idea not going stereo, but I will probably still use the Nady as 1 guitarist uses a lot of distortion and I have heard that the Nady is very good for that.
 
#22
PortlandBass77 said:
That's probably a good idea not going stereo, but I will probably still use the Nady as 1 guitarist uses a lot of distortion and I have heard that the Nady is very good for that.
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Yeah I guess I will refer back to the first law of recording: if it sounds good, it is good!

With distorted rhythm guitar, you'll get a better sound in the mix when less gain is used. most of the huge-wall-of-guitar-sound stuff is a few layers of the same person playing the same thing with low-to-medium gain. super saturated rhythm guitars end up sounding like static.

Hope you guys make a kick ass recording!
 
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#23
And I said:
Yeah I guess I will refer back to the first law of recording: if it sounds good, it is good!

With distorted rhythm guitar, you'll get a better sound in the mix when less gain is used. most of the huge-wall-of-guitar-sound stuff is a few layers of the same person playing the same thing with low-to-medium gain. super saturated rhythm guitars end up sounding like static.

Hope you guys make a kick ass recording!
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It's the lead guitarist who uses a lot of distortion, the rhythm guitarist either goes clean with reverb or has a small amount of tube overdrive type tone.
 
#27
from what little I know of Iron Maiden, dude who is playing the leads also doubles the chords during the verses and choruses. if your lead guitar player is playing chords, and you all want the guitar to be heavy and thick and clear and huge, convince him to turn the gain down while he is playing chords. it sounds counter-intuitive but it will definitely help. just a little friendly advice from someone who has recorded a good deal of heavy guitar music before. here is a link to support that.

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as always try out all of your ideas and use what sounds the best.
 
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#28
The best gains in final sound quality are found by learning how to EQ individual tracks so they sit well in the mix. Many hours of experience are pretty much the only way to develop ears for this. Parametric EQ is particularly powerful but can be tricky for beginners.

Keep compression light and do it in stages, as said already.

Some software has multi band compression (which is essentially compression and EQ at the same time). The presets might be handy - as long as you remember not to overdo it.
 

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