Panning effects

[eeieeio]

Hi, the newbie with the tsr and m-308 mixer again. All the advice I've gotten so far has been a big help. Until my manual arrives I've been tinkering around.

I picked up a cheap Zoom 2000 effect I've been playing with. I'm curious about something I've read concering panning effects away from the dry sound to open up the sound. I'm confused how to go about this. Does the track have to be in stereo to do this? I don't understand, say on a mono guitar track, how to pan the reverb or delay to a different location in the stereo field when you're only dealing with one track and channel. Wouldn't you need two guitar tracks to achieve this?

Thanks,
Jodi

 

[Beck]

You can do that several ways:

Record the guitar track dry (no effects). For playback, feed the output of the guitar track into one input of the Zoom. Now take the stereo output from the Zoom and feed it into two channels of your mixer. Now pan those two tracks hard left and right, or slightly less.

While the track is playing back through the Zoom, adjust the dry-to-effect signal ratio until you like how it sounds. Also try different effects -- reverb, chorus, etc.

This technique will spread the guitar across the stereo field, making it sound fatter and wider.

You can also record through the Zoom and print the effected sound to two tracks of the recorder.

~Tim

 

[eeieeio]

Thank you, Beck