Layering Heavy Guitars in a Rock song with Bob Marlette

Bob Marlette has had a huge career in music stretching from Session Player, Hit-Songwriter, Multi-Platinum Producer, Engineer and Mixer.

Best known for his work with leading rock and metal bands, Bob engineered/produced/mixed Saliva’s Grammy nominated album “Every Six Seconds”, as well as Black Sabbath’s “Reunion” album and Seether’s platinum album “Disclaimer II”.  

You don’t get to work with this many top level rock bands without knowing how to record and mix great sounding heavy rock guitars. In today’s video, Bob shows you exactly how to get massive guitars that have width and sound great!

Bob layers 6 guitar tracks together. He has his main heavy left and right heavy doubled guitars. Then he layers a  doubled, fuzzy, octave, baritone guitar part under that. Then an additional pair of guitars playing a slightly different part is layered in to give the track the width it needs.

Watch todays video and learn how to layer multiple heavy guitars together to build a massive wall of rock guitar goodness!

If you enjoyed this lesson, please click the image above to find out more about our new course, Mixing Modern Rock with Bob Marlette. The course is 3 hours long and Bob takes you the every element in this massive rock song “Nothing’s Gonna Be Alright”, by artist Lola Black.  

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Have a marvellous time recording and mixing, 

Warren

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