Huge sound from two copies of a single take ??

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Hello , I was just wondering if anyone ever uses this process. I recieved a stereo track of a nylon acoustic guitar to learn for a collaboration. Timing , tuning and overall quality was pretty poor but it had a Huge sound and covered All of the stereo field. I couldn't really figure out what was happening . I bounced the stereo track to split mono tracks. It was pretty easy to see the differences in the waveforms. It appeared to be a single duplicated recording panned hard L/R that had been bounced back to stereo. The right track "may" have been moved a few milliseconds. It was a little hard to see though. The track on the left had sharp attacks , the right track looked like it had short fades on the attack. Tail end of the left track notes were faded out and the tails of the right track were left intact or even boosted a little. Some of these differences were swapped around in a few spots. All of these fades were done at pretty strategic points making it sound like 2 guitars . It was apretty slow and not very complicated , and probably didn't take that much time. There was also slight differences in the EQ between the two.
I like doing seperate L/R guitars and I can never seem to be able to do a simple guitar/vocal song and end up with a space for the vox in the center. I really haven't heard anything about mixing this way , but it sure sounded good .. mark
 
No. If it's duplicated, there won't be differences. I bet it was two mics.
 
I agree , but even if two mic's were used on a single performance , I'd never seen the attack and tails of notes being manipulated in this fasion . When one side faded the other side carried on. It really didn't sound like it was sweeping L/R but swelling from different sides. Besides manually fading , some different compressor attack and release settings may have also been used .
When I start tracking this song , I'll try and replicate what I "think" I'm hearing and seeing .. Thanks .. mark
 
"I recieved a stereo track of a nylon acoustic guitar to learn for a collaboration. Timing , tuning and overall quality was pretty poor but it had a Huge sound and covered All of the stereo field." The great sound is essentially moot if the perfomance is poor, no?
 
TimOD said:
The great sound is essentially moot if the perfomance is poor, no?
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Tim , you are exactly right .. That's why I was sent the track to reproduce. I could still appreciate the unusual way it was mixed , ignoring all the mistakes. ms
 
That's it, and also why I'm curious.
I don't really care if it's a keeper or not but I'd like to hear the sound and, if possible, know what the technique was.
 
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