garww
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Yes, the other option.
I'm just the sort that if you need left & right, might as well MIC stereo. One can mix that as they please. Plus, he'll get some room training
Yes, the other option.
Honestly, in a decent room with a good performer, it could turn out really nice with a stereo pair just in the right place to capture it as a whole. Leaves very little room for fixing or even much sweetening, and is not what the OP seems to want either.Everyone is different, but it is OK to consider multi-tracking a waste of time for two inputs. I'm usually considering it a waste of time with 8-10 inputs
Whether you record one stereo track or two mono tracks is a matter of how you set up your DAW, and the OP clearly already knows how to set up two mono tracks as he's panning and applying eq independently.
I would love some help on getting great single take acoustic guitar and vocal recordings with my two channel alesis io2 express. Here is what I am doing now with my two mics. It seems to work pretty well, but I want to improve:
1: Close up vocal into At2020 condenser
2: AKG D5 on the guitar body.
I use the guitar body mic to add low mids for the guitar, since the vocal mic picks up guitar and becomes thin as I EQ the vocal. I pan the tracks slightly off center, add a light chorus to the guitar, and reverb sends on both tracks. I mess around with compression by ear until I'm happy. The only other thing that sounds decent is using just at2020 from a couple feet, but it's a compromise for both guitar and vocals.
I use the guitar body mic to add low mids for the guitar, since the vocal mic picks up guitar and becomes thin as I EQ the vocal.
I pan the tracks slightly off center, add a light chorus to the guitar, and reverb sends on both tracks.
And to do that oildrops has to input two mic tracks which he also has to output to two seperate mono DAW tracks or one stereo track.
Yep. AFTER i gave my advice. Not before, so how should i know?
When i gave my advice he only talked about panning slightly which is not about splitting stereo to double mono.
And i wasn't the only one with that advice to record seperate on 2 tracks. See post #2.
So why then only my advice is discussed as foolish? Please explain.
But if good and well meanth advices are turned into foolish discussions like this i take my conciderations and will shut op.
It's evident from his first post that he's recording to two separate tracks and panning afterward in the DAW.
You are better off learning to record it right, rather than editing. Everything is placement. THEN, YOUR PREAMPING COMPONENTS
This comes up so often, and it is always the same answer. You either compromise the sounds you capture AND your ability to manipulate/process/effect them, or you compromise your "principles" and record the two separately.
Honestly, I think that way too many people are way too caught up in the belief that they have to play and sing at the same time in order to get the right "feel". The truth is that, while it takes some practice, it's not actually all that hard. In fact, you almost have to get a better performance from each track when you can actually focus on doing that one thing without worrying about the other thing at the same time.
No. I said what they said you said, and it was actually somebody else said what they said I said.I didn't say that ^^^^^
I'm actually of the opinion that a single live take, instrument and vocal, is worth while for a lot of performers.
No. I said what they said you said, and it was actually somebody else said what they said I said.
but don't try to force your own priorities onto others by condescension.