"Sultans of Swing" isolated guitar track

Sounds like two parts on one track to me.

 

Sounds like one track to me, possibly in one take. It also sounds really damn cool. Thanks for sharing!

 

finger-picking allows him to attack the strings in three or four locations almost simultaneously
he's a true master of finger-picking

 

Sounds like the licks are "punched in" tastefully through the rhythm take. They're both Mark, but two different tracks.

 

If any of you have had a chance to see him play live, you have to do it. You love metal? Suck it up - this man is a talent beyond and plays guitar with his soul.

 

I feel like the audio gives hints as to why. There's a chance he's using extremely heavy compression and the onset of background noise I hear rushing in at each break is just follow up gain, but to me it sounds like the licks were punched in.

 

Man. You can't help yourself. Yes. People that like metal ONLY like metal and nothing else and aren't deep enough to appreciate anything else. Thank Jeebus we have you to direct and edumacate us.

 

oh, you're right - I've never been told that the only great guitar players are metal ones. Never. Ever.

 

There's no question he's an insanely capable player and he's one of my favorite guitarists. Is he capable of playing rhythm and lead simultaneously at times? Yes. I just don't think he's doing it in what we're hearing.

 

How about waiting for it to happen first instead of coming off like a bitter old tool?

 

but... I *am* a bitter old tool!

 

Definitely pieced together.

 

It seems obviously that to my ears. I'm not sure why we have to assume that is one track and not just two of the 40 or so put together. The rhythm is stereo image and the lead is up the middle

 

I do. My fave is Titanium, light yet strong.
I dig a lot of different woods as well.

 

Regardless of the fact that he can interchange between rhythm and lead, on the recording it is two different tracks.

If you listen closely, in a few instances the tail end of the rhythm track sustains over the beginning of the lead track.

The panning of the sound left/right with lead in the middle is not an issue. This could easily be accomplished during the mixing, IF it was a single track which it is not.

 

of course you could do it. you can do anything in a digital studio you can think of. Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill, why? You have a zillion dollar studio and Mark Knopfler is in the booth. Just let him run another track. He'll do it better and quicker than the engineer will setting up that scene. That's two track, as stated, you can hear them over lap.