Hi,
A coworker of mine let me in on how he mixes his single guitar band. He told me his method is very common and I was surprised I hadn't heard of it before.
I was curious how many of you do this, and if you had reasons why or why not.
They record the guitar to a single wave file. He then assigns that same wave file to two seperate tracks. He pans one hard left one hard right. Next he will take one of the tracks and adjust the start time by a small amount, measured in milliseconds (no idea how many he uses).
I tried it tonight and was blown away (I offset it between 15 and 20 milliseconds). It's not that it made it sound like two guitars. It still sounded like 1. But it sounded fuller and in stereo and sounded great on it's own with drums and bass. It sounded more like what I expect guitar to sound like when I am in the room with it.
I know when people hear, it is not only that we hear volume differences from left to right, but we also here delays although we don't conciously perceive them.
I just wanted to get some feedback on why you guys may like or hate this idea, and if you have any other suggestions, let me know. However rookie they may be, I probably haven't heard them
A coworker of mine let me in on how he mixes his single guitar band. He told me his method is very common and I was surprised I hadn't heard of it before.
I was curious how many of you do this, and if you had reasons why or why not.
They record the guitar to a single wave file. He then assigns that same wave file to two seperate tracks. He pans one hard left one hard right. Next he will take one of the tracks and adjust the start time by a small amount, measured in milliseconds (no idea how many he uses).
I tried it tonight and was blown away (I offset it between 15 and 20 milliseconds). It's not that it made it sound like two guitars. It still sounded like 1. But it sounded fuller and in stereo and sounded great on it's own with drums and bass. It sounded more like what I expect guitar to sound like when I am in the room with it.
I know when people hear, it is not only that we hear volume differences from left to right, but we also here delays although we don't conciously perceive them.
I just wanted to get some feedback on why you guys may like or hate this idea, and if you have any other suggestions, let me know. However rookie they may be, I probably haven't heard them