Hi Guys,
I have some giutar recordings and I am trying to pan one to the left and one to the right, but whenever I do that it creates sound in the middle as if the guitar was centred, and this is not the result I want I want to hear them on the sides not in the middle. Both tracks are mono. Is there something with pannig law in Cubase that doesn’t allow for absolute/precise panning?
Just trying to understand the issue, if you pan one of your mono tracks 100% to the left, there is still signal in the right channel?
No, If I pan one track to the left while the other is muted it plays on the left but when I turn on the other track everything sounds centered. You know when you hear something in the left and the right side but the centre is empty. Spatial awarness. I figured setting offset on one track creates a space in the middle. It still isn’t exactly what I am looking for but sounds closer to desired effect.
Are the two guitar tracks of two different performances? If they’re the same recording, then it would indeed sound mono even if you pan them hard L/R.
Yes, those are the same recording but with some modification and eq.
I am afraid that even with big differences in equalization or other processing is still not enough for separation. You should have two different takes.
If you have repeated parts, Verse1 chorus 1 verse2 chorus2 etc you can cut the second track and switch verse 2 with verse 1, same for chorus etc, it’s a quick hack as an alternative to a true double take, obviously how far you can go with this method depends on how your piece is structured.
You can do a Haas delay (just delay one of the channels by ~20 msec), and you’ll hear them be separated.
I would but this is just old recording I found.
It is basically one take of a guitar riff so fx and some EQ the only option.
Are you reffering to the time offset on the channel inspector?
2x mono will, when panned to the extremes indeed still be stereo. The Haas effect, 2 opposite grafic EQ settings and all other things to create pseudo-stereo have the danger to end up with very poor mono comparability. Be aware! If you are willing to give up mono compatibility you can create great pseudo-stereo effects but a good question is, are you?
Will see what works best.
Yeah, that’s one way of doing it
If you have just this one guitar track you can try creating FX tracks with different effects, panned left and right and send the guitar to these tracks. For example different reverbs left and right and/or different delays left and right, aside from different eqs. You will still have a sound in the middle though, but you will get a natural stereo effect if the job is well done.
Maybe this video can inspire you to create something. It is thought for giving space to a mono acoustic guitar, but maybe you can adapt it to your track and your own needs with new things. By the way, I have applied the ideas that are shown here and they work very well:
Some good ideas in this video, Thanks!