Practice Tone - Guitar - Live Dual/Quad tracking?
I am interested in looking at my overall tone during practice to get it as close to what I'd have in a final studio mix (so to speak).
I get that dual tracking can fatten up a tone some (not much at all if you do your initial tone setup right with the various parts in the chain, but it's there).
But:
What I'm curious about is this whole dual tracking method a lot of people are talking about these days (quad or even more o.0 ?!?), and if just sending the final signal coming in from the amp/re-amp track to 2 (or even 4) separate tracks live and just "bussing" the 2 (or 4) tracks together would result in a similar sound to dual tracking (via recording 2 separate live takes).
Would this even do anything other than tax my CPU to death?
Signal chain:
Guitar into Focusrite 2i4 and out to my studio monitor. The USB out the back connects to the pc (obviously) and I'm then running Reaper (and using my free and purchased VSTs).
A single live input taken on a D.I. dry track, send that to any fx on a single track (overdrive, chorus, any number of stompboxes...) send that to the amp/re-amp track, then take that and send it to 2 (or 4) tracks that all get sent to a "guitar buss" track that finally outputs to the master.
Also, does it matter here if the amp sim I'm running is running a cab impulse before doubled (or quad) tracked? (meaning both (or all 4) tracks are running the same amped, cab, and mic each time)
Last edited by OutsideOctaves; 10-01-2017 at 02:46 AM.
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