Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
OK, check this out (15 seconds) –
https://soundcloud.com/mark_hayes/junkola-render
Two guitars using the same RealTrack.
Progression: Em – Em6 – Em7 – Em6 ... Em
Freeze Guitar #1, replace final chord with B Major, regenerate for Guitar #2.
E minor + B Major = James Bond, and it sounds pretty good!

I don't know what that last held chord was...aside from what you said you did, but to my ear, there's some wonky stuff in there that isn't copacetic.

Well, a minor-Major-9th is a pretty wonky chord to start. But here I imagine there's more than one minor 2nd, which make it even more dissonant. I like it, myself, but I get that this might not be what the composer was going for, so I can't just say, well, it's supposed to sound that way.

Possible remedies:

1) Use a ukulele for the second track and hope that avoids those clashes.

2) Can SpectraLayers pluck out individual notes and discard them? Like, edit out a D# that's clashing with an E? If not SpectraLayers, can something else do this? Hard to imagine being able to pluck a single note out of a recording of two guitars in a graphic editor, though.

3) I'm also thinking TrackSpacer can help, if it's as intelligent as it claims to be, and this would be way cool (and I just bought it yesterday.) Set a very narrow frequency band to include just a problem pair like that D#/E and sidechain the nice notes onto the naughty notes to force their naughty frequencies to be selectively ducked.

The last one sounds so cool I'm going to have to try it. Thanks for the feedback!