Big Guitar Amp
May 26, 2011 Guitar
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How To Get A Big Guitar sound
You first need to start with a decent sounding guitar tone. If the distortion sounds questionable and buzzy, then you need to fix that first and foremost. Its much easier to get a big guitar sound form a sound source that sounds good to begin with. Crap in equals crap out. No matter what you do with it. The use of short delays is good for widening up the guitar sound across the stereo fields. This technique is very effective. Your tone needs to be very broad with extended high and low frequencies. This is a must for a huge sound. Your depth is very important. Long delays and reverb can make the guitar sound like its being listened to in a large room. A slap back delay defines the size of the room that the guitar is placed in. For example a delay of 500ms will create the illusion that the guitar is being listened to in a space that is 500 feet long. This is because sound travels at a speed of one foot per millisecond. Compression is very important. I don’t have a setting, because you need to use your ears for this. Each guitar/song will need different settings. But remember that compression helps keep the guitar consistent in the mix space. So use compression for this.. You try low tuning your guitar. record one take with standard tuning and one take with low tuning and combine them both for one huge guitar sound. Double, triple, quadruple track guitar takes. Pan them far left and far right. This is by far the best way to achieve a huge guitar sound. You can also clone/copy the guitar track onto a new track and then transpose then entire track down an octave and combine both tracks for a huge sound.
This is my favorite mic’ing technique to get that big, thick, and chunky guitar sound: (Note; you need 2 mic’s for this technique). This technique will put the “power” in your power chords.
Place one mic close to your amp’s speaker and compress that signal with an 8:1 ratio settings, a fast attack, a semi fast release and a threshold of 6 to 20dB below the highest peak of the audio level. This high compression will cause your guitar sound to pump.
Place the 2nd mic and place it 5 to 9 feet away (room mic) from the amp’s speaker. Compress this signal with a ratio of 5:1, a medium attack, a slow release, and the threshold is the same as the other one, between 6 to 20dB below the highest peak.
Combine both sounds together and using the room mic just enough to give it that thick and chunky sound.
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