two track pan trick
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Posted on Jul 24, 2007 04:38 pm
Clansonkid
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Member Since: Mar 05, 2003
hey y'all. i'm recording a country esque' track with vocals and acoustic at the same time. when recording i have my acoustic mic panned hard right and my vocal mic hard left. if i record the song into cubase and onto one single track how do i edit in the seperation? if this is confusing what i mean is how do i split the panned parts in half so i have one acoustic part and one vocal?
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pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Jul 24, 2007 04:54 pm In the software I've used (ntrack, reaper) you record in a mono track (say track1, and track2).
track1 vocals
track2 guitar
Inside the softare, you'll see the track, and have a pan control for each track. Here is where you can shift it's position to left or right.
reading again, you say 'onto one single track'. There's the problem. You have to have both signals going to their own track in cubase. input1 to track 1, and input 2 to track 2. The signals should be separate coming out of your preamp device, so just tell cubase to make 2 mono tracks, to receive each signal separately.
Then, after they're on their own track, they both should be coming out both speakers. You can then change the pan to left or right for each track.
what comes in mono, get's played out the PC as stereo.
PuN-ChiI am PuN-Chi, No really...Member
Since: Jul 20, 2007
Jul 24, 2007 04:57 pm That's exactly how I had to do evrything for years...
first off can you set your input for each channel? I use Sonar and it lets you select either a left only/ right only/stereo input for each channel... If you can do that you can save some time.
Otherwise I found I could pan the track to one side and export it... the pann to the other side, and export... then import them back into the program... it was time consuming but it worked...
Jul 24, 2007 05:37 pm In Pro Tools, it's just Track>Split into Mono... Or drag the stereo track onto two mono tracks.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Jul 24, 2007 05:39 pm Yeah, that makes sense. it's a stereo track with the two signals on each side.
N-track had feature 'Split to two mono tracks' that I used a few times. Not sure about reaper, haven't looked yet.
Maybe cubase has something similar.
Thanks AK, I wasn't really grasping the concept at first =).
Jul 24, 2007 05:41 pm yeah you can do that in cubase aswell...i forget how at the moment....for now you can copy the stereo track...and pan each one hard L/R...i think when you pan the stereo one all the way over you'll only hear the one track...
keep in mind this could lead to an 'odd' sound when panning two close mics all the way left and right...
a good technique i use for this situation is a vertical xy in a good 'sweet spot' instead of going for isolation, go for a solid stereo image.
RigsbyUltra MagnusMember
Since: Nov 13, 2004
Jul 25, 2007 07:44 am In cubase, export it as a stereo file, not interleaved, the other one, this will split the stereo track into two separate files: L & R.
