panning guitars?
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Blue Bear Sound
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Panning two mono tracks left and right will do nothing at all - you still have the mono signal dead-centre, but you've halved the signal level to the L/R summing buss. The buss will like it (less combined signal meaning more headroom), but you've not done anything to help your sound.
2 mono signals will NOT give you stereo - stereo signals HAVE TO be recorded at the source. If you have 2 mono signals and you apply effects/delays to one of them, you get pseudo-stereo or wide mono, but not a real stereo signal.
Pseudo-stereo is used all the time for effect in multi-track recordings, so this is fine, but you have to distinguish between an actual stereo recording and a mono signal electronically processed to simulate a stereo image.
Bruce
2 mono signals will NOT give you stereo - stereo signals HAVE TO be recorded at the source. If you have 2 mono signals and you apply effects/delays to one of them, you get pseudo-stereo or wide mono, but not a real stereo signal.
Pseudo-stereo is used all the time for effect in multi-track recordings, so this is fine, but you have to distinguish between an actual stereo recording and a mono signal electronically processed to simulate a stereo image.
Bruce
Tom Hicks
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stereo trick #1
dry guitar left and reverb guitar right
#2
guitar 1 left and doubled track right
#3
guitar 1 left and delay guitar right
When panning,don't do it hard.Keep some of the signal in both channels.Try left to about 9:00 and right to about 3:00.
The key in common to all these variations is to have the dry signal on one side and some kind of effected version on the other side,giving a feel of open space.
Tom
dry guitar left and reverb guitar right
#2
guitar 1 left and doubled track right
#3
guitar 1 left and delay guitar right
When panning,don't do it hard.Keep some of the signal in both channels.Try left to about 9:00 and right to about 3:00.
The key in common to all these variations is to have the dry signal on one side and some kind of effected version on the other side,giving a feel of open space.
Tom
frank_1
New member
If you are working with a DAW, it's easy to make a Pseudo (fake) stereo track. You can take 2 guitar tracks, pan them hard left/right. In the edit screen all you have to do it off-set the time of one track by a few milliseconds. Try it out if you have some type of digital recorder.