Topic: Now this might seem like a really stupid question…

Okay… I understand that…

How would I do this then?

I am recording an accoustic guitar, single mic in. I want to add fullness to it so I’m taking mutliple takes by turning the loop function on. I’ll do several takes (let’s say 5). I’ll listen to the indidual takes and pick out a few that sound decent and delete the rest. I then want to take each of these takes and position it in the stereo image.

As it sits I can’t do it. I tried wrapping each individual track in its own group track but that didn’t do it either. If I were to drop the stereo version of zEq I am assuming this would give me the panning on a individual track basis.

I guess if I were to add a stereo effect (like my favorite Ambience) on the group level that feeds these individual tracks it would give me the pan dial as well. Correct?

Darcy

@Zynewave wrote:

As it sits I can’t do it.

By that, I assume that you are using a mono effect on the group track? The pan dial is hidden in this case, because there is no point in panning the signals when they are going to be summed into mono on the group track. You need to use a stereo effect if you want to pan the signal before applying the effect.

That’s correct… But at that point in the signal chain all I wanted to do is pan the signal. I don’t want it “effected” in any other manner.

So let me get this right… The only way to turn a mono track into a stereo track is to run it through a stereo effect. What if (and this might just be me being a bit anal here) but what if I ran no effects through the whol chain (not really likely)? There would be no way to pan tracks appropriately in the master. Everything would sit right smack in the middle. Is this correct?

Gotcha…