Hi All,
I am not sure if this is a recording and or mixing question.
I liked the sound of stacked (doubled or multiple tracked) Vocals and Guitars but I am not sure about a few things.
I can hear that Eminem at least double tracks his main vocal track and they seemed to be panned dead center and many metal bands double or quadruple track the guitars and have them panned far left and right whilst having two bass tracks, one clean and one distorted right up the center.
My first question is if I (in pro tools) record Two Guitar Tracks, one panned left and one right, then I send them both via a bus to a stereo aux track do I then have to pan the left and right stereo tracks the the far left and right as well? Or is That stupid?
My second question is if I am stacking main vocals Do I process each individual track with say an EQ, compressor, a de-Esser etc. then send them via bus to my aux stereo track to add reverb, delay etc? Or do I just send the raw tracks to the stereo track and apply the EQ, compression, de-Esser, reverb, delay all to the stereo track?
Sessions can get pretty CPU intensive and I do not want to be over processing if it is not correct or necessary
Thank you all for your time and expertise
I am not sure if this is a recording and or mixing question.
I liked the sound of stacked (doubled or multiple tracked) Vocals and Guitars but I am not sure about a few things.
I can hear that Eminem at least double tracks his main vocal track and they seemed to be panned dead center and many metal bands double or quadruple track the guitars and have them panned far left and right whilst having two bass tracks, one clean and one distorted right up the center.
My first question is if I (in pro tools) record Two Guitar Tracks, one panned left and one right, then I send them both via a bus to a stereo aux track do I then have to pan the left and right stereo tracks the the far left and right as well? Or is That stupid?
My second question is if I am stacking main vocals Do I process each individual track with say an EQ, compressor, a de-Esser etc. then send them via bus to my aux stereo track to add reverb, delay etc? Or do I just send the raw tracks to the stereo track and apply the EQ, compression, de-Esser, reverb, delay all to the stereo track?
Sessions can get pretty CPU intensive and I do not want to be over processing if it is not correct or necessary
Thank you all for your time and expertise