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Want a trick? (you folks at home might learn something too)
It's called the Haas effect and you can use it's implications to make your recordings sound ultra big. Imagine you've got some Amadeus over there on your left jamming their little chords out of their amp. You would not just hear it in your left ear, you'd hear it in your right, except a few milliseconds later and with a bit of muffling from your head. You'd hear more reflections from the opposite wall than the real tone of the amp. HOLD THAT THOUGHT
If you take a track and duplicate it, hard-pan them L and R it will sound coming out of the center, twice as loud. Take the one on the R and delay it by 20ms and trip out as suddenly the track is the same loudness but clearly coming from the left, despite being equal volume in both speakers. This is the delay it takes for a sound coming from the left to reach your right ear- The higher the delay the more panned it sounds, until it eventually sounds like two distinct sounds
Take all your hard-panned guitar parts and run them to a bus. Flip the L/R on that bus (in Logic it's a plugin called Gain that has the option, no idea how to do it in whatever you use), add a sample delay 100% wet 0% dry of between 5-30ms (experiment- most settings will be out of phase, and the ones that are will have completely different feels), roll off the very low and very high end and raise it up in the mix. The point is not to be able to hear this track, per se, but for it to give you free decibels that can make your guitars sound huge. Try it with the harmonized leads too, using less delay so they sit more centered in the mix. Backup vocals too. Pretty much anything that isn't a single bass or lead track. It's fun!
Try the same L/R flip with your reverb bus (you /must/ have a reverb bus)- So your left cymbals bounce off the right wall. Totally spreads out your stereo mix and makes everything way clear and big.
This is totally not what you asked but it'll be an 'aha!' moment in making your guitars sound big like records
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