If what I posted was unclear, what I'm saying is, using the same settings limits you in your perception of what is happening on the left versus the right.
using different settings helps your brain decipher what is happening on the right and on the left. if you want one big guitar sound, OBVIOUSLY different takes of the same tone will still sound nice and big in the stereo spectrum, and they will not phase each other out at the center, or into the center, BUT my point is, when you vary the tones, you are able to achieve wider stereo feel based on what your brain is decoding.
Also, I did not make up the term Big Mono. Big Mono (or Loud Mono as someone else said, although I've never seen that term used congruently) is a term used to describe exactly what happens when the same track is panned hard left and copied and panned hard right. it's definition extends into what happens when extremely similar signals are on the left and the right as well.
saying that the strings move at different frequencies is exactly right, but that's also basically the same thing as saying when a stone falls in japan, it creates a ripple effect that moves molecules in the deep sea of the baltic. all existential nuances of the sound and its physical properties aside, what i'm saying is this:
- yes you can achieve a BIG sound with the same amp settings. and that may be exactly what some people LIKE and are going for. they won't cancel each other out like my karaoke example, i just cited that as an extreme example of the realtionship of your left and right channels and how they interact in the center.
- yes you can use the same DI track, move it a few milliseconds later and get that oddly shifted feel of the track surrounding you as well... if you want to call that stereo... reamp that DI again and yeah the air will move a little different on the second take and you'll get a slightly different version from the L to the R and it will still appear to be in stereo. I agree with all of that.
- but ALSO yes, your ears will hear the signals with more distinction in the stereo field if the tone settings from the left differ from the tone settings on the right. and with pseudoharmonic stereo wideners, you are able to phase out the center frequencies even more to keep pushing them out and out and out before they reach the point of cancellation.
i'm actually surprised at how heated this became.
"wow, that escalated rather quickly... I mean that really got out of hand."
The term "big mono" is useless, a track is mono, or stereo, period.
Really? Have you been in a movie theater in the last decade?
