Question regarding tracking guitars live

[jangoux]

Hey guys,

So, a buddy called me up and asked me to record sort of a DVD for his band. I dont know if it will really be a DVD, but will at least capture some live footage for youtube and stuff. The band is really simple, has drums, bass and ONE guitar. Despite giving him a price including overdubbing, I noticed he is not really into in doing that and asked if capturing the guitars in stereo (recording his orange and my amp together, miking both) couldn't do that. Well, to be honest I don't know if he could even overdub as he is far from tight.

Well I never tracked two amps live to pan them full L/R. Will this bring me loads of phase problems or it can be OK to do that?

Btw, I will still capture the DIs.

 

[Internity]

well if you pan them hard L and R you wont get any phasing problem..
another thing you can do and it get done alot is to get 2 mics on 1 cab.. and then pan them L / R to give more of a wide stereo image

 

[jangoux]

even in mono ?

 

[Trevoire520]

In mono it's going to phase cancel yeah. Generally everything is going to sound pretty crap in mono anyway though so just try and get stuff as in phase as you can and go for it.

 

[Plankis]

Check some live vids with Muse. Might give you an idea how to deal with these bands: