AmpliTube 5 Tutorial - Double Tracking & Wet-Dry Rig

[@worldofguitarlessons9353]

Great Tutorial! Well done, concise, and goes over what is possible with Amplitube.Thank you.

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

You're welcome! Glad you've liked

[@johnfercher]

This sounds incredible !

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the comment!

[@jonpritchard5426]

That was great. I love the sounds you got and the mix sounds terrific. Great playing style, too.

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the very encouraging comment 😊

[@mitchmason8386]

Nice job. I’m new at this stuff so that really is a great example of what can be done. Thanks

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the comment! Glad it was helpful

[@vancesellers6032]

Awesome! Thanks for the tips on improving my recording.

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Happy to help!

[@thoughtprovoking001]

I'm new to Amplitube and this was super helpful. Thankyou!

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

That's great to hear! Thanks for the nice comment 😊

[@DavidDavis-FA-photog]

Thanks for the information very helpful.

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thank you

[@UndgnfiedWrshpr]

Just subscribed. Thanks for the walk through

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the nice comment and sub! 😊

[@Dang...]

Nice work!

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@tylermagee8029]

Thank you for the awesome tutorial! It taught me a lot \m/

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thank you for the nice comment! Happy to know it was useful

[@markrogers7304]

Sounds like 38 special "hang on loosely"

[@SjaakShirly6559]

Well done!

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the nice comment

[@riffworx]

Good job 👊

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the nice comment!

[@rudigerk]

Very nice! I like it very much..

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thank you very much! Glad to know this was useful!

[@erdoganturksever9119]

Hi...Are you inserting amplitube 5 into channels or sending the channel to fx track...thanks...I last used cakewalk 25 years ago :)

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Wow I didn't know the software has been there for so long. You can add vst plugins of effects and modelers into tracks and that's how I am using amplitube.

[@neilcummins5099]

What's your signal chain into Amplitude 5 please....USB interface etc or have you reamped an external cab? Sounds excellent...I wish I could replicate this in A5 via my Scarlett Solo 3rd gen...

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the nice comment! I'm recording the guitar straight into the interface and using only effects, amps, and cab simulations from AmpliTube itself. My interface is a Behringer UMC 204HD, but I don't think this should not make any big difference to the sound. I've also done minimal post-processing in the DAW. Try dialing it similar to my settings on the screen and you should be able to get pretty close 😉 best luck chasing those tones!

[@neilcummins5099]

@@TheBedroomRocker1 ..there are three extra stomp units in the signal chain,one between the DI and splitter and one each after cabinet and mixer,which are these please?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

I have an overdrive before the splitter. The fender amp has a delay, tremolo, and chorus in the effects loop. After each speaker cabinet there's a rack compressor. I hope that's clear now? Let me know if you have any more questions 😉

[@Cantrip1957]

Would it sound same if you put pedals before the amp? Why do you put them after? What DAW do you use here?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thank you for the question. They won't sound the same. I usually like to run time-based effects like delays and reverbs in the effects loop of the amp. This allows for more clarity. If you place them before the amp, you will also amplify (and potentially distort) the delay and reverb, which tend to mushes your sound. Other pedals like overdrives/distortion usually go in front of the amp. In this video I cover some of that (with real pedals though): kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5-co4h7q5l2m80 The DAW I use is Cakewalk by Bandlab. It's quite good and completely free.

[@hassanahmed9093]

For double tracking do you load Amplitube 5 in 'mono' or 'mono->stereo'?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

You can do both. For a tighter sound in a packed mix, I'd use mono with each guitar close mic tracks panned hard left and hard right. If you want to give it a bit more air or make it sound bigger, you can add the reverb or room mic of each guitar track into the opposite side (guitar close mic track hard panned right with the reverb/room mic hard panned left and vice versa). I hope that helps

[@hassanahmed9093]

thanks that makes sense, forever grateful ! :)@@TheBedroomRocker1

[@padraig88]

To avoid double tracking every song, could you split the guitar signal into an amp+cab and into an audio interface with simulator while simultaneously recording both in separate tracks?

[@pinkponyofprey1965]

no, or you CAN but it will not sound as good, wide or impressive as actually double tracking. Panning two exactly identical tracks hard left and hard right will sound like a mono track in the center, which probably is the most important reason why this won't work as well as proper double tracking. Also to make it work you have to delay one of the tracks 20-50ms so they're not clones of each other.

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Yes, that's right. You can do it, it may sound pretty good, but it won't sound the same. A big part of double tracking is that you play the same part slightly different every time and this creates a nice tension

[@marcusbalthazar5267]

Do you play the guitar solo in stereo with the pan in the middle?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the comment. I don't remember the exact pan, but for solo I usually blend two mics and pan each one 5-15% to each side. This widens the sound a bit and gives a more stereo feel while keeping it well separated from the rhythm tracks, which are paned hard right and hard left

[@raheemthesecond]

couldnt you do the same thing just using the DI?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the comment, but I am not sure I understand the question?

[@raheemthesecond]

@@TheBedroomRocker1 you know the DI option? doesn't it essentially just add a separate signal that goes straight to the amp?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

@@raheemthesecond I am not using any DI signal in this video. The DI option bypasses all amp/effects/cabinets/EQ/ etc. and that's not the intention. In the video I show two different recording techniques: 1) The first is the wet-dry rig/technique. This means that you split the signal in two and feed each one into a different amp. The wet amp contains all of the modulation, reverb, and delays while the dry amp does not. 2) The second technique is double tracking. For double-tracking you usually record the same guitar part twice optionally using different amps/settings/speakers/microphones. The small differences in your playing and settings helps to make the sound more interesting. Instead of recording the guitar twice, you could also just split the signal and feed them into two different amps/settings/speakers/microphones, but you would lose the difference in the playing which is quite important. Please let me know if that makes it clearer. I hope it helps. Cheers!

[@raheemthesecond]

@@TheBedroomRocker1 I understand what your saying but the DI option right before the pedal chain does that exact thing. I you press it it adds a blue line that creates that dry signal so what I am saying is you could have one amp line then press the DI button which will add another dry (going straight to the amp with no FX) signal which is exactly what you were doing except its built in. Do you get what I am saying?

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

@@raheemthesecond I just checked it but the DI option bypasses the entire signal chain, including effects, amps and cabinets, so it does not work for having two amps in parallel, which is what I did. It stands for Direct Injection, meaning it injects your guitar signal directly into the mixing desk, which is the last block in Amplitube. To use two amps in parallel, you should use the signal splitter, which is also a built in block from Amplitube. You can place effects before or after the split.

[@angelrojasguitar2692]

The title of this video is missleading. This is no Dry-Wet recording in separate tracks from one single take.

[@TheBedroomRocker1]

Thanks for the comment but I believe we have a different definition of dry-wet. By dry here I mean that one of the recorded amps (the Marshall in this case) is not getting the "wet" effects like chorus, reverbs, delays while the other amp (Fender) is. So the Marshall is the dry amp and the Fender is the wet amp and they're both tracked simultaneously from a single take. I hope that clarifies