clashing souds

[panthersfan16]

when my band jams, me and my other guitarists' sound clash pretty bad, is there a way to make it sound better, or flow better together?

[Flik]

two things come to mind for me:

1. you're either both out of tune, as in his guitar is tuned slightly flat or something..

2. or your playing clashing notes. naturally playing a c, and a c# together will sound pretty bad. If you don't already, learn to stink to a key for a jam. Say at the beginning, "alright, lets jam in the key of g major" and away you go. Say that should allow to be in tune throughout the jam - in theory.

[airborne50caliber]

Or there is the possibility that the rythms you are using don't work. Try different arrangements.

[-Obscurity-]

Assuming it's not something already previously mentioned, it could be as simple as eq'ing. Let the main "rythm" guitar come through on the lower midrange, and the "lead" guitar come through in the upper midrange/high's. Using different pickups can help as well, one of you take the neck pickup, the other the bridge etc.

[airborne50caliber]

panthersfan, looks like our 'tar is derived from the same piccy of slash.

[espf-250htd06]

me and my friend have the same problem i would suggest making sure the volume is the same and not to much drive and about the same settings, other than that just both gota have the same timing and be playing the same thing

[PainKiller8191]

Assuming it's not something already previously mentioned, it could be as simple as eq'ing. Let the main "rythm" guitar come through on the lower midrange, and the "lead" guitar come through in the upper midrange/high's. Using different pickups can help as well, one of you take the neck pickup, the other the bridge etc.
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[panthersfan16]

panthersfan, looks like our 'tar is derived from the same piccy of slash.

cigarrette is in the wrong side of his mouth... : )

i was wondering if the acoustics of the room could cause this..it isnt tuning or key, since we both know a good deal about that and, except for the fact that im in drop d and he's not, we're tuned the same...the problem with the sounds is that they aren't flowing with each other...almost like they are fighting to be heard, instead of being heard together as a song...

[Flik]

Could be some sort of technical issue (as in volume level or EQ) as someone already mentioned.

maybe try some structure to the jam? you might say that takes out the 'jam' of the jam, but saying 'you do a melody, i'll do chords, do that for four bars and switch places' or
'ill work some chords based on the bassists roots, and you do some melody over the top, and after 16 bars we'll change the most relevant key'

you dig dawg?

[airborne50caliber]

cigarrette is in the wrong side of his mouth... : )


its the same phot, just flipped around