Cool Recording Tip

Here is a great recording tip for those of you looking to add a bit more "realism" to the stereo image of your recording. Say you wanted to make a rhythm guitar track sit in the stereo field little bit better. If you have just a single track, clone it and pan the two hard left and hard right. Adjust the volume so that it seems to be pretty much where you want it to be in the sound field. Then on the track that has lower volume, add a delay plugin. The key here is that you want only the delay signal and none of the original. You can add up to 20-30 ms of delay to help the stereo image seem more natural. This is because when you add the delay, it changes the relative phase between the two tracks and this is what happens when you have two guitars on opposite sides of the stage. If you have two separate tracks, you can do the same thing and it will work equally well.