panning guitars?

[FUNKY]

How to pan the guitars from original mono file?
What tehnique do you use to avoid phasing problems?
I've heard that it can be done by hard paning left right of the 2 mono tracks?

Is there something else? (delay)

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Panning two mono tracks left and right will do nothing at all - you still have the mono signal dead-centre, but you've halved the signal level to the L/R summing buss. The buss will like it (less combined signal meaning more headroom), but you've not done anything to help your sound.

2 mono signals will NOT give you stereo - stereo signals HAVE TO be recorded at the source. If you have 2 mono signals and you apply effects/delays to one of them, you get pseudo-stereo or wide mono, but not a real stereo signal.

Pseudo-stereo is used all the time for effect in multi-track recordings, so this is fine, but you have to distinguish between an actual stereo recording and a mono signal electronically processed to simulate a stereo image.

Bruce

 

[Tom Hicks]

stereo trick #1
dry guitar left and reverb guitar right

#2
guitar 1 left and doubled track right

#3
guitar 1 left and delay guitar right


When panning,don't do it hard.Keep some of the signal in both channels.Try left to about 9:00 and right to about 3:00.
The key in common to all these variations is to have the dry signal on one side and some kind of effected version on the other side,giving a feel of open space.

Tom

 

[frank_1]

If you are working with a DAW, it's easy to make a Pseudo (fake) stereo track. You can take 2 guitar tracks, pan them hard left/right. In the edit screen all you have to do it off-set the time of one track by a few milliseconds. Try it out if you have some type of digital recorder.