m lebofsky said:
mortega76 said:
...... The other problem I can see is if you have a stereo setup, you'd most definitely have to run either the Enhancer ...... .
Why would you need to run the enhancer if your running stereo ?
the stereo enhancer is only applicable to a stereo setup.. you would never ever ever use it if you are going to a mono output.. it would be a disaster
the reason you'd use the stereo enhancer when in stereo is that is designed to.... *drumroll*.. ENHANCE stereo.. thats what it does !
the idea is to play a trick on the brain of the listener so they feel like they are hearing 2 different things... the more different the left is from the right.. the more our brains perceive this as a big wide sound... lots of people like a big wide sound.. it sounds like 2 guitarists playing together.. another big benefit is that it makes the mix less center focused... suddenly the vocalist has so much more room to sit in the mix...
unfortunately you don't quite get this effect when you run 2 amps panned hard left and right.. this is because even though the amp tone is different, you are hearing the same guitar part... a lot of the signal is still perfectly the same from left and right so you still get this kind of centered mono sound but maybe with a bit of a wider spread... but its all up to you on how wide you can get it... but the wider you go, the less cohesive and focused your guitar part becomes.... its a real trade off.. you have to find that balance point where your guitar still sounds punchy and 'together' but wide enough to really sound massive
the stereo enhancer is there to help make that sound 'wider'... you could also achieve this by having 2 radically different guitar amp sounds panned hard left and right.. for example if you had a very clean fender twin on the left, and a very gained up mesa on the right the stereo enhancer would be far less useful as your left and right sounds are so different from eachother that they dont create any kind of mono perception out front