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If I recorded to two mono tracks, I'd have the left one panned hard left and the right track hard right. With most modern DAWs, you can record on a single stereo track and have the equivalent of that on a single track. |
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You could reach out to Rob Poland at Candyrat.
He is the "man behind the scenes" for many of the Candyrat artist videos. Mike |
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I've talked to Andy about what he did on his last CD - he recorded with a single mic and a K&K, 2 separate tracks. He sent that to a studio to be mixed, and he doesn't know (or didn't know at the time I last talked to him) what the engineer did as far as the mix. But it's not magic, there are only a few options. |
Hi Doug,
when you record with a stereo setup and you pan extreme L and R you have no signal from your left mic to your right speaker and vice versa. Am i right? |
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But when recording in stereo, really, I all but ignore the pan control. That's not really something that gets involved in a proper stereo recording. You create the image with the mic placement. if you have to adjust the pan control, you set up the mics wrong or set your preamp levels wrong. |
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Technically speaking, "panning" has to do with where you place a mono signal within a stereo or multi-channel soundfield. It's my usual practice to send each mic of a stereo pair to it's own mono channel so that I can have total control of the final stereo width of what was recorded. |
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I was always trained to record stereo as two mono tracks so all this is new to me.
If you record it as a single stereo track, and 'pan' that track, you are essentially making L louder than R and vice versa, yes? As opposed to sending a bit of left's signal to the right? And one of the reasons you do this is to avoid phase issues. Does this sound about right? |
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Of course, that's ok, too. The bottom line is what sounds good. If you get the best sound by putting up two mics, recording them to separate mono tracks and panning them however you want, the results speak for themselves! Do what sounds best. What sounds best to me, so far, is recording a stereo track and getting the sound I want by mic placement. Therefore the need to "pan" simply never comes up. But there's a reason they call recording an "art". You can do anything you like, if you like the results, it's great. You asked about mixing solo guitar, and the examples I posted show how I did it in a couple of cases. It's not the "right" way, it's just what I do, so if you like the results, you might experiment with the same approach. If you don't think it sounds good, avoid my techniques. I do think that the basic approach I use is pretty common among solo fingerstyle guitar recordings, which is why I brought it up. I didn't invent any of this :-) I came up with what I do by studying lots of fingerstyle recordings, talking to lots of recording engineers and other guitarists, and so on. I hope it's helpful, but if it doesn't make sense to you, that's ok, too. There are tons of ways to do things, if it sounds good, thats what counts. |
Just to follow up on the stereo mic placement, here's a few places that might be worth a quick read:
general stuff: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1997...reomiking.html http://www.deltamedia.com/resource/s...echniques.html http://www.xowave.com/doc/recording/mic-pair.shtml more guitar-oriented: http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/...can-use-today/ http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug0...cacgtr0801.asp http://www.homestudiocorner.com/stereo-mic-techniques/ http://www.uaudio.com/blog/stereo-mi...oustic-guitar/ |
Awesome links! Thanks for sharing.
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but i've slept, reread and rewatched, and i now understand that both mics are in stereo and are blended, and one side of each mic can be heard on the left and right channels, and there is no way to hear each mic separately. i hope i explained this well enough to not cause further confusion. thanks for the information and sorry for panning the thread hard left. :) |
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You can take the same approach with a pickup - going back the original "how do I sound like Andy McKee" question, record with mics, and also record a pickup. You can record the pickup on a mono track, so you can actually make good use of that pan control :-) Blend with the mics to taste. |
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