Fatten Up Your Guitar Sound in Pro Tools

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Fill up the empty space in your hit tracks with a nice full sounding rhythm guitar part by doubling tracks and adding layers of compression in Pro Tools.

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[skipstalforce]

wow double a track and add compresion, amazing. can have my two minutes back

[AASteveo]

Biggest problem with this is if you make any edits on the original guitar track, you would have to do the whole copy region thing all over. Should have just split a send to an aux track and insert the compressor.

[Chubzter15]

@Noahshollow do you mean recording two tracks at the same time or play through the song twice?

[MilosDorian]

@Noahshollow Right on brother. It takes extra effort but the results always outshine the other methods.

[Noahshollow]

its always better to double a guitar by recording two tracks and not just copy it and move a little to the side

[LeafMaster510]

Mike Shinoda using this xD

[glassprison01]

this is not parallel compression....

[oldrockrock]

@sblopez08 there is a different purpose for doubling than there is for parallel compressing. He is not trying to recreated a stereo sound from one guitar. Parallel compression is especially great for acoustics.

[frambook]

@skipstalforce our two minutes and fifty eight seconds !!!

[sblopez08]

this works but nothing sounds better than taking the time and just doubling it... that's just my own opinion though when you double it all it does is make it louder but doing 2 different tracks sounds better in my own opinion

[revrsng]

@AASteveo By the time your mixing you should have finished your edits anyway. or just group the tracks and in most DAW's the edits will work for both

[TheDJPCol]

Yeah, it would be better to send to signal from the original track to an Aux send and compress that.

Also, instead of inserting a new EQ plugin and copy and pasting the settings (rather long winded) why didn't you just hold 'Alt' and drag the EQ plugin onto the new guitar track. This would copy the plugin and all its settings in less than a second....?