Stereo guitar from one (live) take?

[Morgan C]

How did they do this? Every time I've heard a live band's DVD with one guitarist, its either panned to one side, or its stereo but really bad sounding, frequencies spread out left-to-right because, obviously, its only the one take (ie. DT's Chaos in Motion).

Just heard this: http://ie.7digital.com/artists/nightwish/made-in-hong-kong-and-in-various-other-places/

New Nightwish DVD samples, they've only got one guitarist but its stereo. Not hardpanned, but stereo nonetheless, and it sounds good. Any idea how they did this?


edit: just heard some harmonies, wtf. They do use a lot of samples from the actual CDs in their live performance, so they obviously play to a click and could have just put the studio tracks in I guess.

 

[mark.james]

they've only got one guitarist but its stereo. Not hardpanned, but stereo nonetheless, and it sounds good. Any idea how they did this?

A lot of engineers take one guitar track and put a medium length stereo delay on it, with 100% affected in one channel and 0% in the other... Not too long of a delay because things start sounding weird... but if you get it right, it will sound great.

Mark

 

[Rockchops]

This might help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_double_tracking

I do the same, except for the delay, I just copy the track, and erase a couple of miliseconds so that they're not perfectly phased.