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Aloha Y'all! (PT-LE Stereo chs to Mono.)
(Continuation)... Aloha from Hawaii, guys!
I've taken my PT Laptop travel rig for a milk run to my brother's place in Hawaii. Next question; I'll often be recording Uke mic'ed with the 451 and simultaniously direct from its Fishman pickup. Similarly, Acoustic Guitar will be recorded mic'ed plus through a Seymour Duncan "Woody" humbucker. (BTW, this cheapy turned out to be my favorite "strat-ish" sounding AcGtr pickup from last month's thread, and I tried them all. Plus, I was able to whittle down the wood to where it fit in the 3.25" soundhole of my little Seagull Parlour guitar.) So I'd like to record say, a uke part, to a "stereo" track, (so I don't have to worry about inducing phase problems by accidentally nudging a mono track). But I want to eventually be able to EQ and Effect the mic track differently than the direct track. The only way I can think of to do this is to buss the "stereo" recorded track to 2 mono aux returns, and then hide the original stereo track to save screen space. Is there a more elegant way to do this? And also, do those Aux tracks use up PT "voices"? Hopefully not, as I've only got 32 total. Thanks, as always for sharing your expertise. Cheers, Rick. |
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Aloha Y'all! (PT-LE Stereo chs to Mono.)
So I'd like to record say, a uke part, to a "stereo" track, (so
I don't have to worry about inducing phase problems by accidentally nudging a mono track). But I want to eventually be able to EQ and Effect the mic track differently than the direct track. BRBR You'll probably want to record them to two ajacent mono tracks. You can group them to avoid accidentally nudging one. I used to afraid of accidentally moving half a stereo signal, and it's never happened. You can always zoom in to the sample level to realign the beginnings of the two files anyway. More importantly, if you start adding plugins to one track and not to the other, you're going to have to deal with plugin latencies. You'll probably want to nudge one track to correct for phase phunk. You can open a stereo track and drag two identical files into it and apply a stereo plugin. Some TDM plugs will automatically convert a mono track to stereo to compensate for the discrepancy. Sound Toys (formerly Wave Mechanics) does this and has some of the best sounding chorus/flange/etc. time based effects I've heard. Joe Egan EMP Colchester, VT www.eganmedia.com |
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Aloha Y'all! (PT-LE Stereo chs to Mono.)
Greg and Joe to the rescue again! Thanks for the advice, guys.
I suppose I'll just go back to recording to two mono tracks again, like I would in my older TDM system. I had hoped that using a stereo track would be a more elegant way of recording these dual parts, but it seems to cause more problems than it solves. I guess this is because I'm really not using it for genuinely stereo sounds. Thanks once again, Rick. |
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