How to fatten up guitar tracks>>>?

you can move a track wave form with this method.


I like to create clips by removing the silence between licks with clip/clip/delete. That gives me some smaller clips... but this does work with any sized clip.

Right click it, and look for the track properties...click it...in there, you are able to set a new start time... so just move one about 10 clicks earlier, and the other 10 clicks later. You can place any clip precisely using this method.

Turn off snap to grid. Then drag it where you want it.  You could also click on the  time, move it up a few miliseconds then import the cloned track.

  The term "fattening" has become (most often)
"cloning". Then things get shifted in time. Then we
say something is "fat" through time delay?

  If the language of engineering music is turned
into vague adjectives then how can any absolute
be a factor?

  Try and describe what fat is.

   A sound/mix may be rich, warm, lush for example
and in some cases these "adjectives" are useful
but no one can say that "fat" is the result of
cloning or anything for that matter.

  However there may be some truth to the fact:
"it aint over till the fat lady sings"

  

ChuckC
gotcha.

so, you're well into the mic placement/room sound/correct mic choice part of the equation..

it's very hard to mic yourself and engineer yourself...
without having an honest isolation room or control room, to get away from the rig....
to really HEAR what the mic is hearing.

i'd bet your problem is simply mic positioning.

some pros, make that THEIR thing...

a lot of experimenting with positioning is required.

then, you have to decide whether or not to use room mics, and how much of it to use, and where to put it in the stereo field.

i don't like studio tricks, like cloning and offsets and whatnot.

the best fat tracks that i've heard, that i liked, where done the old fashioned way....

double tracked, by playing each track exactly the same.
dead on performances.

i think, any more than two takes per part, makes it mushy.
but two done together, dead on, with a good rig and good micing, is gonna work.

Ok I conceed that I am going about it wrong here.   Let me explain.  I have only dabbled in DIY computer recording & never had an interface before.  I was (& still am til the new daw gets here) recording to a Tascam 8 track then dumping the wave files into comp to fool around with mixing. I only had 8 tracks to work with. I've never even had monitors before this afternoon!   This is the 1st time & I am just now getting serious about self recording so I'll be on here a good bit I am sure. 
  :off topic:  I am a member of a few forums for lawn care/landscape pros as I own a lawn care/landscape design-install company.  I suppose I jump the newbies and set them straight on there when they explain how they're doing something the Hard, dumb, or half-assed way...  
  So I appreciate you guys doing the same for me here.
Once I get the new Daw & a direct interface I will just double track it & play around with mic positions more  maybe run several mics on 1 take at 1st (recording to different tracks) to see where I am getting good sounds & where not to ever put a mic again

Personally, I always opt for recording the thing twice [or more] than cloning/shifting/nudging.

You get little variations in tuning/timing/phrasing that is extremely difficult if not impossible to achieve by any sort of artificial means.

13-56's

mike_mccue


13-56's

Painful... but Nashville cats swear by them for acoustic.

That may be true.... but is also a fact that for any given magnetic flux *pickup* system... the fatter string will get more electrons moving.

FWIW I grew up playing 13-56s on a Tele. :-)


best,
mike

mike_mccue


13-56's

I wouldn't have any fingertips left!!!!!

Hey - it's old 'bone-fretter' Mike!