Description
It's certainly not impossible, but it can be very hard to record one guitar and have it sound full and complete, especially when you're first starting out. So in this lesson I'm gonna show you a great production trick called doubling that can help you with this.
So let's say that we're using our large diaphragm condenser mic, and we've recorded our example, but it doesn't sound quite full enough. Then we'll record the exact same part once again, and once we have both tracks in our program we'll move one of them all the way out to the left speaker, and the other one all the way out to the right speaker.
Moving tracks around from left to right is called panning. So the original guitar is panned left and our double is panned all the way right. When you're panning things all the way out to the sides we call it hard panned. That means our vocal or lead instrument can sit comfortably in the middle of the spectrum while the guitars are wrapped around it beautifully.
Again, this technique is called doubling, and it's a life saver.
Now let's record our example twice with our large diaphragm condenser, and hard pan the two tracks. Notice how full and complete it sounds now even though it's the exact same part only doubled.
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