I have always refused the idea of "quad" tracking because... well, I dont know, I never tried it.
Until today.
Wow, what a waste of time
Clip 1: Low Gain setting, double tracked only! (sounds bad!)
I quad tracking and it sounded the same. So I tracked more... Until I had 12x tracked the riff... AND STILL SOUNDING THE SAME!
Clip 2: The same Low Gain setting... but tracked 12 times! (sounds the same?!)
It looked like this:
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So... 12 tracks, and it still sounds amost exactly the same?
Well, here's a double tracked riff with high gain... (sounds much better!)
Then I started thinking.
What if I purposely played SLOPPY?
Ok, now it makes sense. 12 sloppy played tracks sounds massive, but if you play tight like I did in the above 12x clip... It makes pretty much no difference.
Maybe the idea is to stack different tones? But that just makes it a nightmare for the mixing engineer.
I dont know.
But if stacking different takes dont play too tight or it will be waste of time