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If you add compression, theyвЂ™ll just sound smaller.вЂќД¬hurko: вЂњRecording and mixing bands like Disturbed and FFDP can be quite challenging, because there is so much going on in the low mids and low end. I like to commit to one awesome sound from one amplifier! I donвЂ™t really compress guitars during recording, because the guitars already have so much overdrive on them. Sessions get complicated enough these days.

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It just gets messy and running Pro Tools becomes an administration job. I could, of course, record each mic to a separate track, but that would double my track count. вЂњIвЂ™ll EQ each mic separately and record the two mics on each amp to one track. At the recording stage IвЂ™m mostly just trying to take away problems, because I will be EQвЂ™ing again later on in Pro Tools. The EQ I use during recording is usually cutting low end and high end over 10k and boosting mid-range. I want to pick up enough of that brightness and articulation without it sounding overly bright.вЂќД¬hurko: вЂњWhile recording guitars IвЂ™m already thinking of the big picture, going for a good guitar sound, but also making sure it will fit in with the rest of the arrangement. If you put a mic directly on the cone, the sound gets smoother and warmer, but you lose a little bit of articulation. That will give me a little bit more attack and articulation.

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вЂњWhere I place the mics is still a little bit of trial and error, but usually what works best for me is to place them close to the circumference of the cone, slightly facing in with a little bit of angle. The rhythm picking styles are very immediate, very tight, and you want to be able to hear all that fast picking. I donвЂ™t use ambient mics to record rhythm guitars. In that situation youвЂ™re also hearing the ambience in the room, and when you stick mics close up, it sounds very different. вЂњOf course, you first set up the amp and the sound coming from it. I DI the guitars as well, just in case we want to reamp them. I tend to record guitar cabinets with a Shure SM58 and a Royer 121, sometimes a Sennheiser 421, and then a Vintec 500-series mic pre, and API 550b and Radial Q4 EQs. Zoltan tracked his rhythm guitars at my studio, and I go to Jason вЂ™s studio to record him. вЂњThis is my fifth album with FFDP, so I know what they like, and I know what has and has not worked in the past.

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Dan played all his rhythm guitars through the Kemper Profiling Amp, using one patch that came with the Kemper and one patch I had created at my studio. YouвЂ™re building a wall of sound, brick by brick.вЂќД¬hurko: вЂњDisturbed brought great demos to my studio recorded at Dan DonaganвЂ™ ItвЂ™s not like recording a band in a room, live with a few mics. Of course, the guitarist has to be exceptionally precise in his playing! ItвЂ™s all about articulation, and the guitarists play a lot lighter than many people assume. I blend these sounds according to what the song needs. One sound will be brighter and pointier, the other will be warmer and fatter.

This really widens the rhythm guitar and makes it sound huge across the audio spectrum. вЂњI have the guitarist play the same part four times: twice with one sound panned left and right, and twice with a slightly different sound, again panned left and right but not quite as wide. Now I do it with many of the heavy metal bands I produce. From his hideout, Churko shared his expertise on how he went about recording, mixing, and producing the red-hot rhythm and solo guitars on Got Your Six and Immortalized.Д¬hurko: вЂњFFDP were the first band I started doing four rhythm guitars with because they always brought in demos with four rhythm guitar tracks. The similarity in sound is not entirely coincidental, as both were engineered, and in varying degrees co-written, mixed and produced by Kevin Churko. This trio of high-flying metal successes came hard on the heels of two other very successful metal albums, DisturbedвЂ™s Immortalized and Five Finger Death PunchвЂ™s Got Your Six went No.1 and 2 respectively.Д«oth those bands operate in a similar metal vein, with low-ish screamed vocals tuned down guitars and basses busy, hard-hitting drums and, most of all, monolithic walls of distorted rhythm guitars, at times overlaid by virtuoso guitar solos. In one week, the top three best-selling albums worldwide were by Bring Me The Horizon, Slayer, and Iron Maiden. ThereвЂ™s been a worldwide flurry of high-charting heavy metal albums recently.

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