Big guitars

[myownsilence]

Ive noticed when listening to guitars in Stereo compaired to mono they appear a lot louder. Whats the trick?

To phrase a different way, they are not louder than drums in mono, in stereo they also cannot be louder than drums, but they almost appear in front. Is this Eq?

I also dont believe its to do with an phase trickery.

 

[mick thompson]

this should explain it - http://forum.speakerplans.com/stereo-or-mono_topic23786_post301097.html

and if you test it with a mono wav a mono is louder centered then panned (thats what i found in logic)

 

[myownsilence]

So I need to listen...

Where does the brighter sound happen? Are we talking about stacking the guitars in mono? Or do we stack in stereo when tracking.

Turn the guitars up you mask the drums and it sound crap, cutting with EQ is not something I like to do as you might as well turn the guitar down, Hi and Low pass filters I am fine with however, just not little cuts to slot the drums in.

I've noticed a lot of it has to do with a carefully balanced guitar not louder than the drums. And some small EQ boosts to just assist guitars size.

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

a mono wave will sound louder centered because then it it is coming through both speakers then when you pan it its only coming through 1 (depending on where you pan)so theres not much trickery going on there its just a matter of 1 or 2 speakers handling the workload...

You record the guits in mono and then pan them out hard left and hard right or whatever sounds good to u...you might need to eq it because no matter what level you set it at you might find that the drums still sound buried because they might both be taking up the same sonic space,therefore eq is necessary...eq is an option to fixing it...

just like people have been saying in your previous posts dude just do your research and learn everything you can about EQ'ing once u get it down you will realize that it does alot more then your thinking.

 

[myownsilence]

ahh I get you so you suggesting that EQ does a lot more of the volume than the fader, balance it below drums then eq it to feel larger?

 

[Dalinkwent48@aim.com]

its different with every song...try and do your panning and level adjustments first...then go in with your eq to try and balance everything better...layering of the tracks is what makes it feel larger...but remember every time you layer a track your taking up more space in the mix...thats where the eq comes in