Cubase 15: When I record a song, I record the same guitar part onto track 1 and track 2—so, two separate recordings. I want to use panning to hear track 1 in the left speaker and track 2 in the right speaker. This has worked fine in the past, but now it isn’t working. What am I doing wrong?
If it’s the EXACT same mono recording you’re not going to hear stereo by panning. But the panning should work if you mute one of them. Unless you’re sending it to a mono group.
Hopefully you recorded Mono and panned hard left and right. An important thing is each should be a seperate recording…in fact change the pickup selection for one of the tracks. You want slightly different sounds for each guitar track for the split to sound right. Recording each track separately will give the slightest timing differences that help fill the sound as well. I usually add a third mono track in the center with a simple chug at a much lower volume, it will help fill the soundscape 
Rob, you’re going to have to provide at least a minimum amount of information for people to help you.
What’s mono and what’s stereo? Input buses? Audio tracks? Groups and output buses? What did you pan? What’s the routing like?..
Can you describe how it isn’t working?
Mono audio track output to a stereo bus (probably the main output) record guitar, pan to the left.
New mono audio track output to the same stereo bus. Record guitar again. Pan to the right.
Your guitar should sound nice and wide due to the subtle differences in the two recordings.
Yes, Matthias, I agree. This is what I do.
In a project, I have the following audio connections:
1 mono input (Left)
1 mono input (Right)
1 stereo output.
I record my rhythm guitar on track 1 and assign it to mono Left.
Then I record my rhythm guitar again, this time on track 2, and also assign it to mono Left.
Next, I pan track 1 fully left and track 2 fully right.
Result: No left-right separation. It sounds like a mono signal.
I mute track 1 and play track 2 (soloed): When I pan left, it sounds like mono coming from both speakers. When I pan right, the sound drops away, acting like a volume control.
I mute track 2 and play track 1 (soloed): When I pan left, it sounds like mono coming from both speakers. When I pan right, the sound drops away, acting like a volume control.
From your description I’m guessing your listening environment is only connected to the left channel.
You would have to go through your entire output signal chain and check where the right channel might be connected to the left output.
What do you mean by “assign it to mono Left”?
I assume you mean that you assign the input on your audio track to your “mono input (Left)”, correct?
Is your audio track mono or stereo?
How did you set the output of the audio track?
Your audio tracks that you record onto should probably be mono. They should then have their output set to your desired output which seems to be “1 stereo output” (and you should make sure to pick “stereo out” (or whatever the name is) and not just “Left” under that name) . You should look at the Output Bus track’s meter and make sure that when you are panning your signal from one of your tracks the level shifts completely between left and right meters.
If you have done that and panning doesn’t work then the problem exists after the signal reaches the output bus. You would have to again give us some description of your routing there.
You would have this problem if you for example record onto a stereo track, and then set the output of that stereo audio track to only one side of the Stereo Output Bus (left in this case), and then set your output or Control Room to mono.
Thank you very much for the suggestions you all did. Ik have a lot to think over and to verify. Again: yhanks!