BOB POPP: Hi. This is Bob Popp of Gunpoint Recording Studios in Chicago. You can find us at myspace.com/gunpointrecordingstudios. We're going to talk about how I get one guitar to go through two amps and three cabinets and record three guitar tracks at once, not only to save my client money also so you don't have to tighten up tracks when you're try to do something like.

[BOB POPP PLAYING A FEW POWER CHORDS]

Because to try to play crap like that three times in a row is just impossible. I couldn't do it. I don't expect my clients to do it. So, to save time, we just track it all at once.

We're going to talk about my setup here. I've taken a Y cable. I plugged it to one amplifier. I've taken the other cable, plugged it into a room with another amplifier, checking for phase and noise because if I turned it on and it buzzed, I would have to flip the ground on the other amp. Then I put one speaker cabinet from this head into here, and then all the way on the other side of the room over there, there's another cabinet that has another mic on it. Those are coming off the Marshall head that I'm playing through right now, and then that branches off into the other room, which we'll go into in a second here to show you what I've done. But remember this funky looking cloth cable here, you'll see that on the other side of this brick wall. Let's go over there.

All right. Here we are in the other room. This is the mysterious other room. Last time you guys saw this room, there was a whole bunch of tape and a whole bunch of gear all over the place. Well, enough was enough. I couldn’t record that way. I wouldn't expect my client to record that way. Back to the Soldano amp. Here we have the Yamaha/Soldano T100C, one of my favorite amps, and also was a wedding gift to me from my friend [PH] Eric Chez. Eric and I are great friends and he figured that I needed it more than he did. He's a great man. So, here we have the Soldano with an SM56, and remember this cloth cable? That's the brick wall it's going through, which is 24 inches of brick. It's pretty big.

Cool. Let's go play some guitar.

[BOB POPP PLAYING AND RECORDING GUITAR]

[BOB POPP PLAYING BACK GUITAR TRACK RECORDED FROM A YAMAHA/SOLDANO T100C]

[BOB POPP PLAYING BACK GUITAR TRACK RECORDED FROM A MARSHALL AMP AND CABINET]

[BOB POPP PLAYING BACK GUITAR TRACK RECORDED FROM A SUN CABINET WITH ELECTRO-VOICE M SERIES SPEAKER]

[BOB POPP SWITCHING BACK AND FORTH THREE RECORDED GUITAR TRACKS]

[BOB POPP PLAYING BACK ALL THREE GUITAR TRACKS TOGETHER WITH ENTIRE MIX]