From goffmac747@aol.com Mon Feb 18 10:39:39 2008
Subject:Re: [CWSG]To Record in Stereo or Mono


If you are used to playing your boards in stereo, then do it that way. You should not have to worry about track space. Get the feel you like and let the engineer or your freebie tech to worry about it. If he/she/they are committed, they will do something with it. you can always collapse to mono if it sounds better that way in the mix or narrow the width like say to 2 and 5 o'clock in the stereo field on say a piano or even the leslie, which will sound like mono but will be in stereo.. You are doing classic rock covers. This means you would have to go one further than the originals to make your recordings worth listening. You may as well do it as well as you can because as it is even the pros are rarely satisfied with their results.





-----Original Message-----
From: stateofmin@aol.com
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 2:20 am
Subject: Re: [CWSG]To Record in Stereo or Mono






By way of follow-up, the music is eclectic, from Santana to the Allmans,

from the Grateful Dead to Eric Clapton unplugged, from Pink Floyd to the Rolling

Stones. It is mostly sixties classic rock, with a fair amount of keyboards.

A lot of the stuff relies on acoustic piano, Rhodes and Hammond organ.

There is very little analog synth stuff. (By way of exception, we just recorded

Comfortably Numb and I laid down orchestra strings, oboe and a synth pad to

start). In terms of my reference to being in hobby bands, the recordings are

supposed to be professional enough to use as demos for whatever purpose.

The main focus of my question was stereo versus mono in terms of recording

directly through the board. The Leslie issue, although important, was a side

issue. My one band is not using a studio because our guitar guy has a high end

free-standing Yamaha recording DAW and knows how to use it. The second band

is going for something more professional and will be working with a

professional engineer. Quite frankly, the rough mix of my band doing it on the cheap

is pretty good IMHO and very professional. Could it be better? Probably.

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