What Your Guitars are Missing

Incredible Rock Guitar trick that you've heard on thousands of songs!
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[@marklarm]

I remember you did another video about this technique Bob and i've been doing it ever since. SO MUCH more versatility on guitar design for any kind of track. Thanks again man! You rock! 👍

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Mark!!

[@guthriejenkins]

Now I know why distorted guitars were always more difficult for me than clean guitars. I never thought about it before but it is hard to see the transients of distorted guitars and they are blobs. Thanks for the clarity.

[@BobbyHuff]

My pleasure Guthrie!

[@GregVasquez777]

great idea thanks!!! awesome as always. Happy Holidays!

[@richprincipe749]

You are truly gifted… thanks for sharing your talents with us!!

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Rich!

[@minstinct280]

You ROCK Bob! Your channel is the best bro.

[@BobbyHuff]

I appreciate that!

[@antcall6779]

Great as always Bobby 🤘

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks again!

[@tcr4451]

I just used your technique for guitars, in which you add that low synth with a "scratchy" top end to beef up and add definition. Worked like a total charm!

[@BobbyHuff]

Fantastic!

[@tcr4451]

@@BobbyHuff I'm a former touring drummer. I didn't realize you played with BlackHawk. We used to cover a couple of your songs!

[@BobbyHuff]

@@tcr4451that’s great! Yeah I played drums for them for 6 years and then produced 3 songs on their greatest hits. Great guys that I love very much.

[@7thNoteOfficial]

​@BobbyHuff its great to actually learn from someone with experience

[@BobbyHuff]

@@7thNoteOfficial thanks man!!!

[@gatherstudio5219]

Thank you for your wisdom 👍

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks for watching

[@JaviBello]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBBY!!!! I was talking with a friend a couple of days ago about this. I hope this video will help him trust me more often hahahaha Thanks Bob!

[@BobbyHuff]

Hahaha! Yes JAAAAAAAAAAV! You must be trusted!

[@Owl-qh2rh]

Thankful for you too Doc! And your vids 🙏 have fun with your shopping maybe an idea for a vid? haha good times. Ive so gotta get a splitter!!! Great advice as always 🙏 wishing you a blessed Thanksgiving 🙏🕊️

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks Owl!!

[@1shannonleggette]

Happy Thanksgiving my friend.

[@BobbyHuff]

and to you Shannon!

[@charvelplaya]

Ok GREAT tip!!!...Question ,,,so I use a UA interface...would I come out of that switcher inot channel 1 and the other out into my sigmal processor??

[@GarethGras]

DI track is also great for sidechain triggering gates/comps etc

[@BobbyHuff]

Yes!!

[@chrisharrison809]

Great tip! DI signal for visual editing. How do you incorporate this with the power of cubase? Hit points and group editing?

[@mcmentalmusicmakers3219]

Yes this is the modern sound. But some of the life changes as the performance becomes time compliant. Most times I think the first is magic and then we perfect magic , which then inst magic it's just right. Another great talk thanks

[@HolySmokeOfficial]

Useful tool, for sure. We just prefer to get our parts and tones together during production, nail then during recording, and make mixing less like fixing something that's broken and more like celebrating the creation of something organically grown with human feel. And, yes, we align parts too, when called for!! Thanks for sharing!🤘🏼

[@nikht0]

Nice. I recently started doing this and discovered another benefit to editing guitars and other tracks like this is that all the transients line up, making the mix louder and more consistent. Btw, is someone having a bath in the background?? haha

[@BobbyHuff]

You are absolutely correct about the transients lining up! Much cleaner and easier to mix. It’s a fountain in our house! Haha

[@TheTaskmaster]

Satisfying

[@Hrafnaflokii]

What about the phasing? Are they pre-phased before you edit or do you match the phase beforehand with the microphone?

[@mjntrax1-pq5eg]

What is the breakdown of the content in the Hi hat loops?

[@fpvtv2222]

I really like the idea of uaing a direct box to get pure signal to see where the guitars line up on the grid. I think making all the guitar line up perfectly on the beat takes the human element out of the music. Do you agree? Wouldn't it sound better to get the guitarist to play in the pocket as close as possible sound better? Perfect sounds kind of robotic to me.

[@HenryMittnacht]

Cool. BUT if there´s 2 guitars playing the same parts to make the sound big and wide by panning hard l/r? Does the "charme" of NOT playing spot on not disappear? Or am I just thinking not "modern" here? 😏

[@NikolajChristensen]

It's a great tip. Know you are only doing it this "basic" way to make it cross-daw compatible. In Cubase 12 with the phase-coherent warp-marker group editing this is an absolute breeze.

[@BobbyHuff]

Yes absolutely!!! You are correct but I have to show these techniques in a way that I know everyone with different DAWS will be able to follow.

[@NikolajChristensen]

@@BobbyHuff totally get it. Makes sense. Thanks for doing them.

[@pvalenti]

Great video, but I think most of us could save money on the Radial piece and just use any available DI since most that I am aware of have parallel input jacks...so plug the guitar into the DI, run from the other DI input to the amp or pedalboard and you get a DI signal at the same time you are capturing the amp with a mic or mics.

[@TwoSouls-productions]

🙌

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks!

[@Fred.A.Dubeau]

i don’t even record amps anymore, di + amp sims for me, and pro tools elastic audio for quantizing!

[@stm113]

Burn in a perfect song, the best Papa Roach ever did. It’s a song I wish I had written with one of my bands.

[@BobbyHuff]

Thanks! It was a fun one!

[@eleven1161]

🤙🏽

[@thomasrobertson4213]

Why the picture of Nuno? A player with such an amazing time feel and you are showing a (perfectly decent) technique for tightening timing. That’ll not make your guitars magically like Nuno.

[@jmsdeco]

Happy Thanksgiving

[@BobbyHuff]

Same to you!

[@kaislivesoundchannel4706]

Why not just go through a D.I. Box into the amp ? I use a Peterson Stomp Tuner, which is also a great D.I. box.

[@swagner89]

Why not just use an active DI box? Is there an advantage to using the ABY pedal?

[@BobbyHuff]

I need something to split the signal. If a DI box can do it then that would be fine!

[@Bhallmed]

@@BobbyHuffsome DI boxes have a thru. Like The Countryman active DI.

[@swagner89]

I couldn't find a DI box that didn't split with a thruput- even a $12 one has it! The ABY is pretty expensive, so a DI is a good option

[@bigdogthehedgehog5906]

Have you uploaded a video about scoring music in a videogame?

[@BobbyHuff]

No I haven't yet.

[@bigdogthehedgehog5906]

@@BobbyHuff Well, take your time.

[@TheBestbackingtracks]

im getting Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead when clicking the links

[@BobbyHuff]

Sorry! I fixed them!

[@lanatrzczka]

So the musicians playing together aren't "in time?"

[@BobbyHuff]

Not in super tight time…

[@jimmcdougall9973]

It’s why everything sounds so sterile. The human has been taken out of the equation. The best tracks were created by bands playing live in the studio imo.

[@androidsbest5399]

yo

[@BobbyHuff]

Yo back!

[@christiaantheuvenet7033]

Why not do another take, more in the pocket? Or record live?

[@robertthompson9161]

stop killing the music lol

[@maxammo6282]

Yeah make it all sterile and robot sounding there you go. And to be honest the average listener is not going to notice the difference between the two.

[@wyrlismike]

everyone just get a daw where you can create a groove map and lock your instruments to the drum track. if you like that sort of thing. i dont.

[@nedryerson988]

I think it sounded better before you edited it. It sounds very stale and generic when everything is perfectly on time, it’s like he took all the feeling and emotion out of it.

[@zeenuf00]

Agreed

[@nobrakes3765]

I liked the guitars in front of the beat. Aligning it sucked out the life and the feel. Hard pass on quantizing guitars unless you want generic ...

[@BobbyHuff]

I understand your point. Its all up to you in how you want them. I’m am always bound by the artists and labels wishes as a producer and 9.9 times out of 10 this type of editing is mandatory as well as tuning.

[@dylannolan7454]

@@BobbyHuffit’s why rock is dead. It’s fucking rock and roll not pop. But labels and insecure or untalented artists have all but killed the genre. ANY ROCKERS READING THIS FUCK THOSE CLOWNS … YOU DONT NEED EM … RECORD AND RELEASE SOME REAL ROCK - LETS GET OUT GENRE BACK.

[@7thNoteOfficial]

​@@BobbyHuff👍🏾 playing for yourself is fine but to compete with radio ready music this has to be done ✔️

[@Andybaby]

School of thought 1: I'm embarrassed to do this, its an admission of being a sloppy/incompetent guitarist. School of thought 2: Who cares, it's a studio recording, do 'whatever it takes' to give you a result that will fill venues with adoring fans - of whom 95% won't care that live it sounds 'different to the record'.

[@rome8180]

Perfection is boring. Quit reinforcing the idea that everything needs to be to the grid. It creates an emotional disconnect because we've all heard real music played live and intuitively we know that it doesn't sound perfect. No one is listening to Fleetwood Mac or Soundgarden or The Beatles and thinking "This is great, but I wish it was tighter." Perfection is only the "standard" these days because people like you are allowing it to be.