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SoO... I know most venue house sound guys prefer taking a single DI (or single mic'd cab) from guitarists...I've been running stereo for a while now being the only guitarist so my theory was two channels DI to FOH and have sound guy treat them like TWO guitarists each channel panned hard or on stereo pair...right? right.
We just added a 2nd guitarist so my thought was to go back to MONO (Copy L to R mode) and we would both just give the house 1channel K.I.S.S...problem is i am having a very hard time letting go of my stereo sound, mostly for cleans and effects. So here is my idea and im looking to you sound gurus out there for advice.
What if I did stereo from each guitarist (2guitars) into our Interface (Scarlett 18i20) and then provide the house with a SINGLE stereo mixdown of the two of us? FOH would recieve two channels and plug into individual MONO channels like normal and could literally treat the L as Guitar 1 and R as Guitar 2 panning each to one side of course at the board. Now here is the magic, I would implement an expression pedal on the floor for each guitarist to control a vol/pan block so WE can control the panning ourselves. example: All rhythms would be kept panned hard to each side and all leads, solos, cleans would be panned Center, using the pedal.
The only reason I feel like this could work is bc myself and our other guitarist use VERY similar amps, cabs and settings in the axe-fx. The major differences come in our guitars and playing styles. The idea would be to test and match all of our levels/tones accordingly using our mixing board at home so the mixdown doesn't have any SPIKES or MAJOR tonal/level differences. Our rythym and most lead patches are MONO anyways, its the cleans and some leads that need the stereo. The sound guy would STILL have independent control over each channel (accept when we pan to center, obviously), so it's a like 50/50 compromise and IMO making the sound guys life a little easier...if the sound guy was INSISTENT on having independent control then we could just leave the expression pedals panned hard OR give him an ipad linked to the Scarlett so he can control levels there...
What do yall think? Would this work?
AXE-FX MKII>SCARLETT 18i20/XLR CHANNEL STRIP>FOH
We just added a 2nd guitarist so my thought was to go back to MONO (Copy L to R mode) and we would both just give the house 1channel K.I.S.S...problem is i am having a very hard time letting go of my stereo sound, mostly for cleans and effects. So here is my idea and im looking to you sound gurus out there for advice.
What if I did stereo from each guitarist (2guitars) into our Interface (Scarlett 18i20) and then provide the house with a SINGLE stereo mixdown of the two of us? FOH would recieve two channels and plug into individual MONO channels like normal and could literally treat the L as Guitar 1 and R as Guitar 2 panning each to one side of course at the board. Now here is the magic, I would implement an expression pedal on the floor for each guitarist to control a vol/pan block so WE can control the panning ourselves. example: All rhythms would be kept panned hard to each side and all leads, solos, cleans would be panned Center, using the pedal.
The only reason I feel like this could work is bc myself and our other guitarist use VERY similar amps, cabs and settings in the axe-fx. The major differences come in our guitars and playing styles. The idea would be to test and match all of our levels/tones accordingly using our mixing board at home so the mixdown doesn't have any SPIKES or MAJOR tonal/level differences. Our rythym and most lead patches are MONO anyways, its the cleans and some leads that need the stereo. The sound guy would STILL have independent control over each channel (accept when we pan to center, obviously), so it's a like 50/50 compromise and IMO making the sound guys life a little easier...if the sound guy was INSISTENT on having independent control then we could just leave the expression pedals panned hard OR give him an ipad linked to the Scarlett so he can control levels there...
What do yall think? Would this work?
AXE-FX MKII>SCARLETT 18i20/XLR CHANNEL STRIP>FOH