Crossover in a studio

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I know what crossovers are used for and how to use them. But I was wondering if anyone here has experimented with them in their studio. Has anyone ever split a single instrument, did whatever to the signals, then mixed them back to the mix of the song? What adverse or cool effects occured from doing this?
 
Thanks Ed, that is more of what I was looking for. :)

[This message has been edited by Fishmed (edited 02-18-2000).]
 
Am I missing something here?

Seems to me your talking about a mixing console.

What did I misinterpret?
 
Let me see if I can restate the question. Suppose you are doing a mix, and let's say you have an electric guitar. Suppose we take that guitar track and run it through a crossover and split the signal into three signals of seperate frequency ranges: high, mid, low. Then you take each of those signals and apply some sort of effect to them, say a chorus to the high, delay to the mid, and flange to the low. Then mix those signals back to your main mix. (Of course the effects could be just about anything.)

Has anyone ever done something like this in the studio?
 
Well, depending on how many Aux Sends you have, you could send say 3 different signals out of the same track and do whatever you want from there. If you had 3 channels of a parametic or even some filters, I suppose you could do this.

Now that I'm really thinking out it, you could either go out of your 3 auxes to the processor, then come-back to 3 more channels to EQ.

Or, directly out the 3 channels to another 3 channels, EQ, then out 3 auxes to be processed , and then back into 3 more channels. All depending on what you want.

However, with the option right above, I wouldn't recommend it unless you had a nice multi-buss board. I use to do all this crazy routing on an Otari 24-buss console (don't remember the model) when I had the rare chance to work on it.
 
Or you could different amp for the high end and low end (using an electric guitar I mean). Just like Line6 use the high-end of a JC120 and the low-end of a Fender Tweed to model the POD Clean amp. You could send the low-frequency signal to a Mesa Boogie and the high-frequency signal to a Marshall for example, just for the kick of it :).
You could run the low-frequency to a 15" guitar loudspeaker and the high-frequency to a 12 or a 10... so much possibilities... But is it worth it?

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You know Fish, I have thought about doing this in the past. Thanks for reminding me.... :)

Using a crossover would have the benefit of limited phase distortion from spitting the signal as opposed to some of the other suggested things because using eq on the three different channels to filter out the unwanted freqs would really start to kill the sound. A crossover cicuit is designed to minimize the phase distortion from the applied filter.

I am going to play with this. I have access to some pretty good Ashley 4 band X-overs.

Ed
 
Sometimes, when My girlfriend isn't home, I will go through her underwear drawer, grab some panties and bras and head out to the studio where I try them on and...

Oh, uh, oops. You said "crossOVERs"

My bad. :o
 
My best result (or coolest result) doing that sort of thing ended up being the best sounding heavy metal guitar that I ever heard! I added cirten FX on the higher Frq and different on the lower Frq and it ended up sounding really cool! If I still have a recording of it, I will send you an MP3.
 
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