Editing a Dual Mic'd Guitar Track

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Hi Everybody - first post...
I've recorded a guitar track with two mics onto two stereo tracks. I need to do some editing - chop out a few sections and join the rest together. Problem is that I've got to do the same thing on two separate tracks. I was thinking of making this easier by EQ'ing them, then mixing them down to single .wav file, then doing my cutting and pasting. I suppose then I can double the resulting track up and pan them hard left and right.
Any thoughts from anyone? Is there an easier, softer, better way?
Using older version of Cubase SE.
Thanks,
Tony C
 
Why are you recording mono sources on to stereo tracks? Each mic should be going into a mono track. I don't know what software you're using, so I don't know why there's a problem with editing 2 separate tracks, or the need to bounce them together. But if you do have to do that to edit them, then your nrxt step of duplicating the resulting track and panning won't accomplish anything. When you duplicate a track, all it does is make it a louder track.

If you're duel micing a guitar cab, I think your best bet is to leave them as separate mono tracks and work with them that way.
 
If it were me.....

I would bounce each stereo track down to one mono track. That way you're only dealing with 2 tracks instead of 4. Then, depending on your software, you should be able to group tracks so that you only have to physically edit one track, but it affects both.

Or, now that I think about it...

You could pan one stereo track 100% Left and one stereo track 100% Right. Bounce that down to one stereo track. Do your edits on that one stereo track then split that into two mono tracks.

Either way.

Next time you should just record onto mono tracks and make it easier, but hey, Live And Learn.
 
Thanks guys. I'll do them again as mono tracks and will group them if I need to edit. I'm on the steep leading edge of a learning curve and appreciate the feedback.
TC
 
After you've retracked, pan the recorded guitars to opposite sides say at 50%L and 50%R. Then load in an EQ on each track, don't do them both on the same EQ. You'll learn a bit about subtractive EQing, meaning you cut the a particular frequency/frequencies on the track, don't add to them. You may want to cut everything below 100 Hz, for example. And cut a different frequency/frequencies on the other guitar track as you listen to it in Cubase. This is a good way to learn EQing.

Once you're happy, bounce it off to a 24 bit wav file and you've got your first mix.
 
If you're going to time align them do that first before grouping/editing.
 
Yep. I record this way at the moment. I have a close mic and a room mic recorded to a mono track each. I then send both of these to a group track which allows good flexibilty to choose a giutar sound by adjusting the balance of room to close.

I guess I'm not confident enough to choose a sound and commit to it at the start.

The down side is that, yes, If I need to do any editing/cutting/pasting I have to deal with two tracks in stead of one.

I guess you could choose a balance between the two tracks and commit to it by bouncing it down to one track, then do all of your editing to the one track.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
FM
 
Why not record the two mics onto One Stereo track? Then you can treat it as a single object or track.
 
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