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sorry mate, didnt see your post last night for some reason.Following on from this point, a lot of recorded music has multiple layers of overdubbed parts, which adds to the difficulty of trying to play and replicate it yourself. Some of the Led Zeppelin stuff I try (badly) to get around has about 15 different parts interwoven, so it's a battle just to work out what to actually play out of it all!
If you've got the equipment, what you can do to thicken the sound is double-amping; having two amps, with the guitar plugged into the primary, and if that amp has a "line out" jack, run a lead from that into a second amp, with any effects in between. So have your primary amp set to a clean or lightly distorted tone, and chuck an overdrive pedal in between to boot the second amp..... And if you've got a bit of space to set up in & separate the amps, you can get a slightly delayed double-tracked sound too. :wink:
That is a good point you raised there, most songs have some crazy FX going on in the background.
I think I just need to accept the fact that it's not something that happens over night. And it may take longer for some people.