Double Tracking 'Hack' - 5 Minute Licks

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[zoomosis]

Even lazier: have another guitarist record it for you

[peterharvin]

"Laziness" is a prime motivator to find a quicker and easier way to work it. So hats off to your laziness. That's a slick trick.

[angrytroll]

How about a vid on double tracking leads and blending/mixing the tracks ?

[kevinhughes]

More production videos like this please!

[azerty]

Wait whaaat ?!
This is effing cool and genius, saves time and sounds really good (to me) !

[Smittefar]

When I do recordings like this - I usually loop the recording and record multiple takes (the first take is rarely good enough for a short riff, I need a few playthroughs to find my groove). The trick (for me) is to keep going, when you feel like, you get the first one. The next ones will come easier and easier, and you can split them into as many 'tracks' as you want. Fun fact, I recorded a double tracked 4-voice (vocal) harmony like this - it sounded massive, and it was for a Britney cover :D

[dver]

FANTASTIC idea. Cheers, Leon. Love to the cat.

[drosspunter]

That is a really great tip. Thanks. And thanks for posting your blocks on the forum.

[vestebansbloodbox]

Oh damn... ok yeah this is actually brilliant! I've always just slightly moved one track on one channel to the right a tiny, tiny bit. But that's still fairly sterile. This is a great idea!

[dantahoua]

I always do that for backing vocals, even on production track! :)

[MikeSalopek]

What a novel idea, I don't know why I didn't think of something as simple as this before myself. Love it love it love it and love the format. You're a genius, I don't care what the rest of the guys in ragdoll say about you lol /joke /joke

[mikefairchild]

Back in the days of 4-track cassette recording, I would run both outputs of a stereo delay, set as low as I could get it, into separate channels for cheap double tracking.

[Jamie]

You're too modest, Leon. You're working smart, not hard. I tip my cap, sir!

[Dooogz]

Hiya .. I have a hack in Pro Tools ... take one side of the stereo (well, dual mono) guitar track, and nudge it forward or back by (say) a few 10's of milliseconds. It might be a poofteenth off the beat, but you end up with a big chorused type sound. I usually drop the level of one side a db or two, and pan the reverb a bit as well. Try it out!

[rowanmurphy]

Not sure why it would need to be better. Sounds great like this.

[dhrandy]

This is great! Never thought about doing it this way.

[peik]

I have an even lazier way to quad track! Simply play the riff once on one track, then copy paste the product onto three other tracks. Eq them all slightly differently and then zoom way in and move the other tracks forwards by a few milliseconds! Also pan guitars to taste :P

It’s not an ideal way of recording by any means but has saved me a bunch of time making demos of songs

[wolfsdenmusic]

Haven't done it with guitar, but have done it with vocals. For background vocal harmony parts, I only had 3 tracks, but wanted a much thicker wall of sound. So basically did this trick grabbing bits from other parts and stacking them up. Worked out great.

[msteele]

I've done this many times. Works perfectly.

[iutchube]

Perfect!
Curious thing is that I've done this before editing/correcting previously recorded stuff but had never thought of using it this way. 😆🤦‍♂️