Do You need to Play in Stereo?
Using stereo gives your instrument a much larger and wider sound. It makes your guitar sound feel like it is taking up the whole room. Virtually all recorded guitar sounds are made in stereo to give the guitar a full presence in the room and a wider resonance. You can hear this in your headphones when you relax to your music. There are a few steps to run your guitar in stereo
First, use a stereo amplifier such fender Princeton chorus or any digital modeling amp where line 6 that is designated stereo.
Next, make use of a modern digital guitar processor. Use any modern digital guitar processor. These devices generally have two outputs (left/right). Then run the two leads to the two channels of a mixing desk or mixer/amp unit as long as the PA system is running in stereo. This is very important. After wards, hard pan each channel to each of the left and right outputs.
Many mixing boards have right and left stereo channels and you can connect both outputs of your processor to one channel. If you wish to hear your guitar separately from the other instruments, you will still need to monitor your sound through some type of amp that is not part of the PA system. These days, most bands run everything into a PA system and dont use any amps.
Additionally, you may use two amplifiers as well as one of the effect processors mentioned above or any effect unit such as chorus or delay unit that has two outputs. One output heads to one amp and the other goes to the other amp. This lets you produce stereo sound without a PA system.
The down side of this is the set up is more time consuming, requires double rigging and twice as much actual equipment. It is a lot of work, however, the result is remarkably different from playing through a single mono amplifier. The sound quality is amazing and you get a stereo sound.
Most intelligent harmony machines or pitch shifters will only sound good in a stereo configuration when set up to do complex harmonies. Its important that if you are going to use one of these instruments you set up a stereo speaker system to ensure quality sound control.
Stereo ensures your guitar sound better and fills up the room. It gives the listener a more complete music experience and should be used all the time. - 2361
First, use a stereo amplifier such fender Princeton chorus or any digital modeling amp where line 6 that is designated stereo.
Next, make use of a modern digital guitar processor. Use any modern digital guitar processor. These devices generally have two outputs (left/right). Then run the two leads to the two channels of a mixing desk or mixer/amp unit as long as the PA system is running in stereo. This is very important. After wards, hard pan each channel to each of the left and right outputs.
Many mixing boards have right and left stereo channels and you can connect both outputs of your processor to one channel. If you wish to hear your guitar separately from the other instruments, you will still need to monitor your sound through some type of amp that is not part of the PA system. These days, most bands run everything into a PA system and dont use any amps.
Additionally, you may use two amplifiers as well as one of the effect processors mentioned above or any effect unit such as chorus or delay unit that has two outputs. One output heads to one amp and the other goes to the other amp. This lets you produce stereo sound without a PA system.
The down side of this is the set up is more time consuming, requires double rigging and twice as much actual equipment. It is a lot of work, however, the result is remarkably different from playing through a single mono amplifier. The sound quality is amazing and you get a stereo sound.
Most intelligent harmony machines or pitch shifters will only sound good in a stereo configuration when set up to do complex harmonies. Its important that if you are going to use one of these instruments you set up a stereo speaker system to ensure quality sound control.
Stereo ensures your guitar sound better and fills up the room. It gives the listener a more complete music experience and should be used all the time. - 2361
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Matt knows a lot about stereo and has been mixing music for over a decade. For more information about stereo and sound, visit his site about Axebay used guitars and check out the guitar articles.
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