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29th June 2007
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| Gear addict Join Date: Dec 2006
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Thread Starter | whats in mono, whats in stereo? What is generally recorded as mono and stereo? explain anything that is often double miked and recorded in stereo. Drums: kick snare toms overheads Instruments: acoustic gtrs electric gtrs bass gtr keyboards Vocals: lead vocal harmony vocal |
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29th June 2007
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| Gear maniac  Join Date: Feb 2007
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| some record everything in stereo. But consider this: what do you think would benefit from being recorded in stereo? And vice versa. |
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29th June 2007
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| Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Sweden
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| beyond is right, think about how you would benefit from each. I use very much mono in my sessions and for backing vocals I can even use just one mic for more than one singer. Kinda like "ultimate mono"  |
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29th June 2007
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30th June 2007
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Thread Starter | so, would you do a lead vocal with 2 mics at the recording the same sound at the same time? I find lead vocals are my weakest link, I cant ever get it big enough and to sit right. |
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30th June 2007
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| Jai guru deva om  Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: South Carolina
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| A second mic on vocals isn't where I'd reach for things to sound bigger or more appropriate for a song (I never use 2 mics on a single voc though). Mic selection and proximity, the space and the voice, proper mixdown balances...those are places to look. War
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30th June 2007
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| Gear Guru  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Long Beach, CA
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| Quote:
Will this count for our final grades? What if there's no one correct answer? Should we guess?
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30th June 2007
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hollywood
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| 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 |
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30th June 2007
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| Lives for gear  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Montreal
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 | Does double mic'd mean stereo???? not to me. Kick - In and Subkick Snare - Top and Bottom 2 overheads (stereo) 2 room (stereo) Bass - Sansamp and DI Guitar - SM57 and 609 - always double tracked and panned hard Vocals - sometimes 2 mics 87 and green bullet or 57 for filter effect. Does this help?
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30th June 2007
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| Lives for gear  | Acoustic gtr sometimes gets stereo, if I want it more up front... mono. Overheads always get stereo for me. live strings in a room always get stereo. B3 gets stereo. Piano gets stereo. Most other keys get mono (moog, rhodes, etc), but often panned a lot. Machinedrum gets stereo, but more and more often it gets individual tracks unless an LFO is modulating the pan a lot. A lot of things get multiple mics (e-gtr), but aren't for stereo. I mean, they might get panned differently, but won't be thought of as 'stereo' per-se. BGV's go stereo, but are just panned passes generally.
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1st July 2007
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| 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. Quote:
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2nd July 2007
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Thread Starter | Thanks all for your input, helps clear some things! Oh and you all pass!  Quote:
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