Not aware of any highly regarded tweeter array designs in a 4x12 config. Come to think of it, none of the big boys, Vega, JBL, Peavey, are hangin 12's in bass bins either.
Now midrange? Yep, they got 12's there. In phase you can move some mids that way.
So what if you drop clean guitar on tape, wide a response as you can capture, and then clone it some. How many elements can you discreet in the clean playback?
Pick noise? Clone you a copy with it's own fader.
Midrange honk? You might clone a pair of these and pseudo double them left and right, how phat you looking for?
A clone for the lows, automate, comp, both, there when you need more punch, gone when the back line needs the room.
You could devote two or more clone tracks just to distortion, too much fizz take the guts out of any snarlin guitar, but once you have the mids on solid footing, a touch of fizz highlights your midrange crunch, just when you want it, if it's on its own fader. You're going to end up with at least one group sub once you get static mixes for each section, and I'm assuming rhythym guitar so far.
Back in the days when 2 synced 16 tracks were the gold standard, Tom Scholtz sometimes layered seven tracks of just lead guitar, in these days of infinite tracks, use as many as you need and clone a couple more while you're at it, just in case.
That chunky sound you're looking for is almost mandatory when the guitar is front and center, but try getting certain vocals to co-exist with it when the words are carrying the heavy end of the stick, and you might be glad you had that fizz and pick noise with the middle gone and didn't have to create it from scratch just to hear the singer.
Comps? I'll tell ya wut son, back in the days when skool wuz a six mile walk, uphill both ways, we didn't have these multiband plug wonders, we had to filter and split em our own selves, stone tools and bearskins, and then find enough compressors to fashion our own multiband comps, you youngsters have it EASY now.
One thing though...
It goes against all standards and practices, not to mention the Official Rulebook itself, to get carried away with any of this, and start having fun trying to mix electrically inadvisably altered tracks with standard practice to achieve anything new or original. We frown on creativity around here. And we are professionals, we don't push the edge or break with tradition just for fun.
post edited by Jay Tee 4303 - 2013/07/03 11:09:34