How to dual guitar/guitar harmony?

[qwvb1111]

Greetings, I am working on getting this tone:



From what I know it is using dual guitar/guitar harmony. But since I am a music noob and just got my hands on DAW last week, I am still trying many things.

I recorded my take on this phase in Reaper with Neural DSP plugin, duplicate it, raise the semitones to +3 because I learned that guitar harmony is +3 the root note. And then I lower the volume of the duplicated track, play the 2 tracks together, it is getting a little closer but not close enough. Definitely not octave pedal because it sounds not good.

Maybe instead of rasing the semitones, I should duplicate the track and switch to a different amp model?

Any siggestions will be grateful.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Diatonic 3rd not chromatic.
So Am scale
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
A B C D E F G

Would be harmonised with
3 4 5 6 7 1 2
C D E F G A B

Just as you build chords.
4 notes (A D E B) are harmonized with a ♭3 and 3 (C F G) are harmonized with a ♮3

 

[Blix]

You should play the harmony like in the original, not trying to do with a pitch shifter. :)

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

You should play the harmony like in the original, not trying to do with a pitch shifter. :)

Well fwiw, "intelligent" pitch shifters exist for that reason an iirc NDSP Tim Henson has one.
But you still need to know what scale and intervals
And most of them don't deal with non scale tones in a sensible manner.

As in over an A major you want the notes C C♯ E G and you have it set to diatonic thirds
The C♯ E G would be harmonized with E G B, for the C id still would want an E.

Gets even worse if you harmonize ala Allman Brothers with a hexatonic (6 note scale)
Where over A your pool of notes would be A major without the 4th or F♯m without the ♭6 or the the note D.

So the pool of notes will be A B C♯ E F♯ G
Will result as some notes harmonized in 3rds and some in 4th
A+C♯ ♮3
B+E 4
C♯+F♯ 4
E+G ♭3
F♯+A ♭3
G+B ♮3