Panning Guitar Distortion tracks

[jamking]

Ummm brilliant?

Jason, this guy's spreading disinformation all over the place. He posted in another thread that electricity moves through things like mic cables at the speed of sound and not the speed of light because it's "sound, not signals."

G.

A bit of advice:

Refer to the "sound reinforcement handbook, latest edition" (one of the most popular books for recording). It explains everything about compensating milliseconds per foot of cable length.

It is NOT ELECTRICTY! If it were, brilliant, we would all get "jolted" everytime we touched the tip of a patch cord. IT'S A SIGNAL..SOUND.....
600+MILES AN HOUR. That's why recording engineers (who know what they're doing) take this into consideration when running snakes, etc.

Every bit of advice I have given is exact and if I don't know an answer, I don't reply....unlike others

 

[Farview]

A bit of advice:

Refer to the "sound reinforcement handbook, latest edition" (one of the most popular books for recording). It explains everything about compensating milliseconds per foot of cable length.

It is NOT ELECTRICTY! If it were, brilliant, we would all get "jolted" everytime we touched the tip of a patch cord. IT'S A SIGNAL..SOUND.....
600+MILES AN HOUR. That's why recording engineers (who know what they're doing) take this into consideration when running snakes, etc.

Every bit of advice I have given is exact and if I don't know an answer, I don't reply....unlike others

Sound does not travel through copper, it travels through air. The signal is an electrical signal. Line level is somewhere around a volt but it doesn't push enough amps to zap you. If you unplug a PA speaker and stick your tounge across the tip and sleeve, you will find out that it is electricity.

Normally you run delay to compensate for the sound traveling between different sets of speakers. Like at outdoor shows where you have the mains on the stage and another set to serve the lawn section. The lawn speakers are delayed so they match the sound coming from the mains.

You may have read the handbook, but it seems you have misunderstood a lot of it.

 

[JazzMang]

ROFLMAO.

Someone finally got punk'd.

 

[jamking]

Sound does not travel through copper, it travels through air. The signal is an electrical signal. Line level is somewhere around a volt but it doesn't push enough amps to zap you. If you unplug a PA speaker and stick your tounge across the tip and sleeve, you will find out that it is electricity.

Normally you run delay to compensate for the sound traveling between different sets of speakers. Like at outdoor shows where you have the mains on the stage and another set to serve the lawn section. The lawn speakers are delayed so they match the sound coming from the mains.

You may have read the handbook, but it seems you have misunderstood a lot of it.

I'll buy that

but there's still a delay

 

[JazzMang]

I'll buy that

but there's still a delay

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=1671657&postcount=25

 

[David Katauskas]

I would also suggest not only double tracking for rhythm, but also for solos. It really makes the solo break thru the mix even when panned hard left/right. You can also create some interesting harmonies and/or effects if applicable.

 

[Farview]

I'll buy that

but there's still a delay

The delay is the sound traveling through the air, not the signal traveling through the snake. If there were a significant delay of the signal traveling through the snake, stage monitors would be useless.

 

[EdWonbass]

When I pan the POD signal hard left and the mic'd signal hard right, it sounds pretty big. When the two signals are together in the center it just sounds OK.
Maybe it is the slight delay that makes it sound fat when the two tracks are panned. I don't know. This is really my first time recording in this manner. I have always recorded guitars direct.

 

[EdWonbass]

Yeah, this is what I wanna start doing with my Pod XT and my Tech 21 Trademark 10.

If anything it will give you the choice between the two. Use both or one or the other.

 

[Farview]

When I pan the POD signal hard left and the mic'd signal hard right, it sounds pretty big. When the two signals are together in the center it just sounds OK.
Maybe it is the slight delay that makes it sound fat when the two tracks are panned. I don't know. This is really my first time recording in this manner. I have always recorded guitars direct.

The POD signal gets recorded a couple ms before the mic'd signal, when you pan them to the center, you are hearing phase cancelation caused by the delay. If you go into your daw and line the tracks up, it will sound stronger in mono.

 

[ahuimanu]

If anything it will give you the choice between the two. Use both or one or the other.

Thanks for the input. I guess I was aiming to try recording both simultaneously with an A/B splitter. This seems to be what the thread is amount (kind of). It sounds like I'll have some delay to compensate for. The Trademark 10 has a SansAmp direct circuit in it, so perhaps going direct out of the back of the Trademark 10 would put its latency more in line with the Pod?