To me....a stereo trak generally indicates some kind of spread in the mix. Otherwise...even if there are two mics on the instrument you might as well make it 2 mono tracks. Snare in stereo with a top and bottom mic makes no sense because spreading the image makes the snare sound like its turned on its side with the yop and nottom of the drums on different sides. Unless you collapse the spread to mono, in which case it could be two mono tracks
the stereo part of the snare is in the overheads or the room mics, if they are in stereo.
Electric guitar...really depends on what you plan to be doing with the tracks. If the guitar is doubled, two monos are better. Lots of country or americana type stuff sounds great with some kind of sereo though.
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Originally Posted by squeeks555  Drums:
kick - mono
snare - one mic on top and one on bottom, i suppose i could mix that in stero
toms - mono
overheads - alawyes stereo with a mono room mic
Instruments:
acoustic gtrs - 50/50, depends on what else is in the song and sound im going for
electric gtrs - stereo
bass gtr - mono, but i did MS once and is sounded great
keyboards - 50/50
Vocals:
lead vocal - ive done MS a few times , but ususlly mono
harmony vocal - stereo, but in different passes |