Studio One Minute: The RIght Way to Double Guitars

Joe Gilder shows you The RIght Way to Double Guitars in Studio One!

[chrisdunnettmusic]

Truth! A bizarre trick I use almost all the time that works wonders even though it doesn't seem like it would is I turn off the 1st guitar track so I don't "chase" it. I do this almost any time I double anything and it is almost always much tighter

[chuckandkonnie]

It certainly sounds nice, and the simple copying and pasting with minimal delay does have issues... but here you've recorded two (or three) separate guitar parts. This isn't "doubling" a part as much as it is adding another part.

[resslerartstudios]

The Beatles doubled everything! Tripled as well. Superimposed i believe they called it. Thats why their guitars sound so rich. That is the word to describe it...

[MrBeen]

Double or triple ? He added a 3rd guitar at the end ?

[shiroumxm]

well it may work with basic guitar parts, but most guitarrist not only play 3 open chords.. what about recording c classical guitar piece like "la catedral" ¿¿ there is no way you can play it identically twice.. so is there other way to do this¿¿

[musicguy]

Joe, I'm not clear about this. It seems we have the first take -- panned to one side, then record a new guitar track (sounded like chord inversions) on same part -- and panned to the other side, then you copied and pasted the first take and put in the middle. Is that right. Others have different interpretations in this thread.

[lalboiray]

Great video tutorial i really love it and i have a question since i am new to studio one can i re assign my left mouse click to eraser tools in studio one piano roll.. i want to customize my mouse function settings since i previously use fl studio i find it really hard with the mouse function in studio one..
Really appreciate your work..

[theDanDeleon]

So you recorded it three separate times?

[rooftoprecordingstudios]

Hey Joe, from my understanding this was 3 separate performances. What if you are working with a programmed guitar and only have 1 track to work with? What would be the best method to double that instance?

[NCA]

So wait, did u record the guitar 3 times then? Or just pan one of the recording left/right & leave the other center?

[comet]

if you add the first guitar up the middle won't that get in the way of the vocal? i thought that was the main reason for panning in the first place, to make space.

[emrahalpat]

This was pointless.
IF you only have one guitar part and it needs doubling - and if the song is a somewhat classic pop song with repeating sections (verse, chorus bridge etc) what you might be able to do is to cut out sections of the track, and build the 2nd track but from different clips within the timeline - E.g. Pan the 1st verse to the left, and go to the 2nd verse on the same track, copy the 2nd verse, paste it below the 1st verse and pan right. When you get to the 2nd verse, copy the 1st verse gtr part and paste below.
Make use of repeated performance that plays the same chords.

[redsbarduetsch]

In this illustration, at the end you said add a third guitar down the middle, would that mean to record a third unique track or is copying allowed for that third one ?
Thanks in advanced, love your instructionals !

[drewg]

Well at least I’ve been doing this right in mixing. Do you all the way pan? Or half right and half left?

[fabianvasquezjr]

Hey Joe.. I'm going from Helix rack, if I'm recording in stereo and I want to double that track it starts to get a little jumbled up if I want to pan the guitars more left or right in the stereo field, to separate it from the bass. I know it defeats the purpose of stereo recording, but I like to use some stereo efx. Your saying I'll get better results if I record guitars in mono double tracked then pan one right the other left? Sorry I'm a musician not so much a audio engineer. I basically got the same set up, studiolive 24 s111, Studio One 4.6 pro. Thanks for all the help by the way Joe I've learned quite a lot from your channel, still learning. Rock on brother!

[markrohrbaugh]

How do you ore rnt this problem..asu would like to record 2 mono tracks and have them record left and right w no phase issues ... But want to hear it that way also when recording .

Does a doubler pedal solve this problem??

[LieberLois]

Didnt quite understand how you can play multiple layers in one track at the same time

[cspiderm]

Im double tracking in studio one artist5 and one track is always off, one is ahead of the other .im in time .im fairly new to studio one but im not good with computer stuff.what could be the problem?

[TheSpokenWord]

was that actually 3 guitar parts and delayed a bit or just the human way of slight playing difference, , , i'll try that for now on thanks..

[resslerartstudios]

Then God forbid, they bounced those three guitars to one track and could not go back. Oh the dread of that thought...Cheers Joe!