Gtoboy
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From a random website describing the chorus effect "let’s take a moment to remember what the humble chorus pedal was trying to do when it was first conceived. It is designed to replicate the effects that is heard when a group of singers are all singing the same line. Because of the nature of humanity and before the advent of digital manipulation, very few of them will be perfectly in time or even singing the exact same note, so there is a oscillation that occurs and the chorus effect was born"
I retracked the guitars make damn sure i was as close to perfectly in tune as I could be and here is the result Corona Canon Rock 2 by nmans1026 | Free Listening on SoundCloud
I think what we are hearing isnt necessarily a phase issue but just some odd oscillation due to the exact same thing being played twice and being ever so slightly out of tune. I suppose I'm willing to accept this as an answer but if this is in fact the case, how is it that professional recording don't suffer from this problem (not that i've noticed anyways)?
The oscillation is still there in the newly recorded tracks but it isnt nearly as bad as the originals... also, if you'll notice as the mix gets busier the effect seems to get lost in the noise so thats good i guess
At what point do you say "this is good enough"? any ideas on how I could fix or even just improve upon my methods?
Technically the "oscillation" you refer to is due to phase shift. It's not "out of tune", but depending on how close or far the different waveform frequencies are at any given moment, when summed will either; reinforce, reduce or cancel differing frequencies over time as well as "creating" new frequencies by addition of differences.