How To Get Wide Guitars From A Single Track

How To Get Wide Guitars From A Single Track - Guitar Doubling Trick

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@FromZeroToStudio 2 жыл бұрын

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@antestor2958 28 күн бұрын

Thanks a bunch!

@FromZeroToStudio 28 күн бұрын

@@antestor2958 of course! Thanks for watching! -Justin

@yvanlefort8123 9 ай бұрын

The third solution is definitively the best, imo. No phase issues.

@FromZeroToStudio 9 ай бұрын

100%! The others are great to get a quick “feel” of what it sounds like with a double. With remote mixing projects, there have been cases where I’m unable to get another track from the artist for whatever reason. In that case, I will use the third option as much as I can. However, there are sometimes certain notes or phrases that don’t repeat in the song and I’ll typically reach for a doubler plug-in only for those phrases. They are usually pretty quick parts and the false double can be unnoticeable if you adjust the settings just right.

@Kitebrice 10 ай бұрын

Really great video thanks !

@FromZeroToStudio 10 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching! -Justin

@pawel535 3 ай бұрын

Hello, I have a question about the third method (using Waves Doubler). Why don’t you apply this plugin with the "please stereo my guitar" preset directly to the single guitar track? Wouldn't this create two panned guitars (left, right) with the desired delays between them? Why do you duplicate the guitar track, pan one left and the other right, and then group them together by applying Waves Doubler to the group? Will this method create a different effect somehow? I don’t understand how the Doubler works in this scenario. Does the Doubler keep the previously panned tracks summed to the left and right? or is it adding some additional tracks? I'm confused a bit :) I would greatly appreciate your help in understanding this. Thank you for your excellent tips and valuable video! 🙂

@FromZeroToStudio 3 ай бұрын

@@pawel535 great question! Since the guitar is just a monk track, applying a stereo plugin such as the stereo version of waves doubler to that track won’t achieve the desired effect. That’s why I send the guitars to a stereo group track and add the plugin there. You could also achieve the effect without duplicating the track and just sending the single guitar to the group track. However, I prefer to have easy control of the left and right source for overall level adjustments, muting, automation and such with a simple fader adjustment, rather than having to open the plugin to make any of those changes. I hope that answered your question! If not, let me know and I’ll try to dive more into it for you. -Justin

@pawel535 3 ай бұрын

@@FromZeroToStudio Thank you for the explanation Justin. I appreciate your help. Could you also explain how to define the three dots (direct, first and the second) visible in the open Doubler window and what they refer to? Do they refer to the created group track? That wouldn’t make sense, because then we would have the group in the center, with the corresponding ones on the left and right sides, which would give us a total of 6 signals? Sorry for the silly questions, but I don’t quite understand how this works in that scenario in the Doubler window. 🙂

@FromZeroToStudio 3 ай бұрын

There are no silly questions! You are correct that the 3 dots (white, red, & purple) correspond to the Direct, Left, and Right tracks created in the plugin. Once you apply this plugin on a stereo track, it creates the additional left and right signals from the original direct signal. The little graph on the top left shows where each is in the stereo field. The white direct signal is the original mono track, right up the center. The red "voice 1" signal is the first double created, panned 45% to the left. The purple "voice 2" signal is the second double created, panned 45% to the right. That gives us 3 signals-center, left, and right. You may even want to mute the direct signal if you're looking for a more true stereo guitar sound. Otherwise, it will sound like you're just giving some width to the original guitar. Hope this helps!

@pawel535 Ай бұрын

@@FromZeroToStudio thank you! It's perfectly clear now :)

@FromZeroToStudio Ай бұрын

@@pawel535 of course! Glad that helped!

@chunsilee9398 Жыл бұрын

Hi, when using the delay plug in to double, do you only need to add it to one of the tracks? does adding it to the other original track cause problems?

@FromZeroToStudio Жыл бұрын

Great question! You can just add the delay plugin to one of the tracks. Some doubler plugins, such as Waves Doubler, have a left and right option that delay and slightly pitch shift each of the tracks by a few cents. You could also do this manually without a special plugin. By altering the pitch as well, this can help reduce unwanted phasing or comb filtering issues. Hope this helps! -Justin

@chunsilee9398 Жыл бұрын

@@FromZeroToStudio thanks so much! That helps a lot!

@FromZeroToStudio Жыл бұрын

@@chunsilee9398 you’re very welcome! Let me know how it works for you!