How to make your guitar produce a big colossal sound is a common question. Everybody wanted their guitars sounding big and powerful. How your guitar sounds create an impact on both the song and the listeners. There are so many factors that determine how huge the guitar sound is; a major factor being the instrument itself. To achieve a more prominent guitar sound, pick the right guitar and follow these five tips;
1. Layering different tones
Layering a lot of guitar tracks may make the track sound lifeless and weak. You should only layer once and ensure you do it right. As you layer the tones, play the guitar parts similarly and still at the same degree, attempt to pan them both, so that it may sound like only one guitar is playing.
Layering different tones helps the guitar produce a big massive sound. You can achieve diverse tones by using a different; string, guitar, pedals, amp settings, microphone placement just to mention a few.
2. Double Track
When looking to record a significant guitar sound ensures you set dual track the guitars. Double tracking is overdubbing duplicate tracks on each other; which merely implies recording apart several times and panning them to widen the sound.
You can double track by second recording apart, or even recording a similar part using different amps or guitars. It will result in slightly different sounds which overall make the sound bigger. Double tracking works best for acoustic guitars.
3. Use more tracks and less distortion
Another common mistake that guitarists make is recording numerous tracks using profoundly distorted guitars. Yes, using one distorted guitar may produce a loud sound, but blending several of them tends to sound noisy.
Avoid this by using a clear tone, so that when you combine the rest, the sound becomes sweet, not harsh and tiny.
4. Don’t begin recording too quickly
Excitement is reasonable especially when you have been looking forward to recording. However, you need to slow down and allow some time, probably fifteen minutes so that the guitar dials in the correct tone.
A common mistake most guitarists make is playing using the same tone which they use when playing live. Rarely does this method work due to the variance in room spaces. The sound then becomes distorted, weak and thin.
Take some time to adjust the volumes, and select the best settings to achieve the correct tone; so that the overall sound becomes vast, huge and significant.
5. Overdub an Acoustic guitar
Overdubbing is a rare move which works exceptionally well in almost all genres. All you need to do is overdub an acoustic guitar over an original one`s track that has similar cords. Subsequently, pan the acoustic guitar to make it blend in, after which it becomes an extension of the original guitar. It adds brightness, fullness and natural harmonic.
Final Words
Hopefully, the five steps above have informed you on how to achieve that huge guitar sound in your tracks or mixes.
