Subject:Recording Two Diff Guitars

Posted by: iwish42much

Date:6/18/2004 8:30:19 AM

hey ive had some trouble finding a way to get two guitars to sound good when recording. the guitar parts match, but when you record each guitar on a seperate track they become jumbled if the rythm is off just a little bit. is there a way to record them on diff channels i.e. left speaker and right speaker?

thanks for any help.

Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:6/19/2004 10:45:45 AM

You can only record one instrument at a time in ACID. When you record audio, you can select whatever input your soundcard supports in the Record device: drop down list. I would imagine that for a guitar you would select mono record from either left or right channel from that list. You can then pan them to whatever channel you want on playback. If your rhythm is off, try adding a drum track or some other click track first to make sure you play in time with the tempo. You can always delete it later.

~jr

Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:6/19/2004 11:33:20 AM

In addition to what JohnnyRoy mentioned, try not using the "make new track follow project tempo" option. This will turn your take into a One-shot track instead of Beatmapped. (It could be possible that ACID is stretching your take in such a way that it makes your takes sound off.)

HTH,
Iacobus
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Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:6/19/2004 6:28:31 PM

And what about recording in mono and adding effects later? Seems like it would be easier to pan.

Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:6/21/2004 10:14:50 AM

I'd probably second that, especially in regards to recording dry tracks for re-amping later.

Iacobus
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RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
mD's ACIDplanet Page
Guitars 4 Kids

Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: joongurl

Date:6/21/2004 7:52:36 PM

RE: sending recorded data from a digital multritrack (fostex D-90) into ACID 4.0 -
i was hoping that it would receive all 8 tracks at once and display them as seperate ACID tracks, but it doesn't. is it not capable of that or am i doing something wrong? i've tried selecting differentsoundcard inputs from the Record Device drop down list; that only seems to allow me to choose which track i want to record one at a time.

Subject:RE: digital multritrack (fostex D-90) into ACID

Reply by: joongurl

Date:6/21/2004 7:53:28 PM

RE: sending recorded data from a digital multritrack (fostex D-90) into ACID 4.0 -
i was hoping that it would receive all 8 tracks at once and display them as seperate ACID tracks, but it doesn't. is it not capable of that or am i doing something wrong? i've tried selecting differentsoundcard inputs from the Record Device drop down list; that only seems to allow me to choose which track i want to record one at a time.

Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:6/21/2004 9:29:57 PM

Like I said in my previous post, you can only record one instrument at a time in ACID. ACID is not a multi-track recorder. You need Vegas for that.

~jr

Subject:RE: Recording Two Diff Guitars

Reply by: groovewerx

Date:6/23/2004 10:25:55 PM

i may be offbase here but aren't most of those porta-digis setup for multi/mono and midi i/o? If so, why not use midi to sync your fostex to acid? you won't get to dump all at once but your newly recorded tracks will line up properly in acid.

also, if a stereo track is actuall two mono tracks, by panning hard L/R s/he can dump two mono tracks at once. then that stereo track can be split back into two mono.

just a thought...