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Originally Posted by psycho_monkey  Erm...I think you need a little more experience before offering advice on this! For a signal to be stereo, it has to have different information on 2 channels...what you're suggesting above (assuming it works) will be dual mono....and thus sound exactly the same as panning a single channel centrally. Now if you started EQing one side, or put a delay on one side...THAT would start making things happening in stereo, because different signals would be coming out of each speaker.
FWIW, it depends on WHY you want a signal to be stereo. If it stands to gain something significant (eg Organ sample being fed into a Leslie speaker simulation, to make it sound more authentic) then I can see the point.
But otherwise, too many stereo sounds can take up the stereo spectrum and make things sound cluttered - a piano spread with the bass notes far left and top end far right seems unnatural and "sample" like if you ask me. Much better to leave the sound in mono, pan it off centre, and then if you need to add some sort of stereo ambience. To my ears, an acoustic guitar part treated like this would sound much more natural than any of the artificial widening techniques used.
Just my opinion. But I've assisted many top notch mix engineers over the past few years, and very few of them ever try to make a mono signal stereo - if anything, they'll mono/reduce the width of a few stereo sounds to make space. |
monkey.......F*uck that stereo bulls*hit"
if you want stereo try PANNING