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Originally Posted by anton
Thanks folks.
Yea I would like more clarity in my sound. I recorded my first CD at Doug's and one of things he mentioned was having to boost the highs. I have been playing around changing my picking hand position, having the tips of the nails more parallel with the strings. That seems to have helped a bit, though I am still dealing with some nail noise on the wound strings.
When I compare my recording to Doug's Zoom demo posted recently, i can distinctly hear a wider stereo spread, with more separation between the left and right channels.
I was wondering maybe if some sort of internal routing in Logic set wrong. I usually record both mics to one stereo track. If I understand correctly Logic should pan Mic 1 hard left, and Mic 2 hard right? If I tap on one mic I hear the sound more up the middle, not distinctly in one side of my headphones.
Anton
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That's all I do, Anton. Those Zoom demo clips were spaced pairs about 13 inches apart. Run them into a stereo track in Logic, which puts each mic hard left and right. I sometimes will use an MS tool to adjust the stereo image, but I didn't do any processing at all to to those Zoom clips. I've never used any of the delay tricks Rick demo'd. Blumlein is a nice technique (you need figure 8 mics for the original Blumlein), but it's basically X/Y, and will usually be a narrower, tho perhaps more natural, sound than spaced pairs.