The Band19 Well for starter we used my guitar not his. He has an Ovation. It is ok, but it does not sound as good as my guitar. The tone and quality of the instrument make a huge difference. Which is one reason I replace the strings often when recording.
This was just two guitar parts. I recorded them in stereo but used two seperate mono tracks for each part. This is what I did to record each guitar part. I used an AKG c 1000s condenser mic. I plugged that into an Art Tube Studio V3 preamp. That went into my vs-100. Then I plugged into the acoustic electronics that are built into the guitar. I ran that through an Art Tube MP studio preamp.
The guitar that was used is a Takamine it has cool tube electronics that sound incredible. It is not like other acoustic electronics. It requires 4 double a batteries and it runs the signal through a tube.
So now I recorded 2 separate mono tracks for each guitar part. One with a mic and one using the acoustic electronics. This gave me 4 tracks total for both guitar parts.
When it came time to mix I used a solo button then applied EQ for each track using the analyser and my ears. Then on the first guitar part I panned the mic track full right and the guitar electronics part full left. On the second guitar part I panned The Mic track full left and the acoustic electronic track full right. Then everything was routed through a master bus.
I then grouped the faders for the acoustic electronics part and lowered the volume a little.
Now it was time to apply some reverb so I used a phase cancellation trick with the buses. This how I did it. I created two buses. I named them reverb 1 and reverb 2 I put the Sonitus reverb in the first bus and used the Aux acoustic guitar preset. I changed the output to stereo and set the decay time to 1.5. I turned the volume fader for dry all the way down even though the dry mute button was on.
I control clicked and dragged the reverb in the other bus and double checked the settings to make sure they were all the same as the first reverb bus. I went back to each acoustic guitar track and routed one send through reverb 1 and another send through reverb 2. both reverb buses were routed to the master. So each acoutic guitar track was using both sends. Now everything was set up and now it's time for phase cancellation.
I put the Cakewalk channel tools plug on one of the reverb buses. ( it does not mater which one you use) I turned off the input mode and the delay mode. I turned on swap, L, and R
This canceled the reverb effect all together so I could no longer hear it. The I went into one of the reverbs (it does not mater which one) and turned the delay time up to 2.0 I grouped both reverb bus faders and lowered the volume.
What happens here is the initial part of the reverb cancels out and all you hear is the tail end of the reverb. This is a great way to add incredible reverb sounds to vocals and solo instruments. I have tried this trick with delays and modulation effects as well.
I use Ozone 5 on the master bus and then export. I know it is a long process for just two guitar tracks but I am getting great results. Wait until you hear the title track of Pete"s new CD.