stereo micing a guitar in pro tools

[anton]

Hey Everyone,

I have Pro Tools and an Mbox, and have a newbie question concerning stereo micing solo guitar music.

Say i am recording a solo fingerpicking piece, i have both mics plugged into the two inputs of the Mbox and am ready to go. Should i create just one stereo track and have its inputs as line 1 and 2. Or should create two seperate mono tracks, one for each mic?

So far i have just been creating one stereo track and selecting line 1 and 2 as its inputs.




anton

[Axis]

you'll have more flexibility if you create 2 seperate mono tracks as you can then change the panning, change effects on each track, change volumes, or eq.

[TexRoadkill]

If you are doing some type of stereo XY micing then it might make sense to put them on a stereo track but I agree with Axis.