I've messed around with a nice trick to get some width on a dry mono track (say lead guitar for example), without making it sound "roomy" and without changing the tone of your main cab (like adding another cab would).
What I did is split the signal from the amp block into 2 cabs.
The first one is just your normal one, nothing changed there.
But on the second one I loaded a far-field cab (F028/F029 on the XL II+).
The I treated it like Mid/Side recording, with the far field cab being the side of course.
I put a filter block after that cab and inverted the phase of one of the channels (left or right), and then blend that in with the main cab.
However, like M/S recording many times do, it gave it a nice width but also made it sound panned towards one side, and pushed it off the center.
(which is a cool effect on its own if you know that guitar part is not going to be centered in the final mix).
In order to solve that, I changed that second cab block to a stereo one, and loaded 2 far-field cabs in stereo, and split them into 2 different lanes.
With the help of the Vol/Pan block, I made both lanes mono, with each one containing only one of the far-field cabs.
Then I inverted the phase of the left channel on one lane, and the right channel on the second lane.
Now when you blend in with the original normal cab it gives it a nice width, without any early reflections or reverb tails, and while keeping the sound centered.
It's also mono compatible.
I'm really happy with how it sounds so I thought I'd share!
What I did is split the signal from the amp block into 2 cabs.
The first one is just your normal one, nothing changed there.
But on the second one I loaded a far-field cab (F028/F029 on the XL II+).
The I treated it like Mid/Side recording, with the far field cab being the side of course.
I put a filter block after that cab and inverted the phase of one of the channels (left or right), and then blend that in with the main cab.
However, like M/S recording many times do, it gave it a nice width but also made it sound panned towards one side, and pushed it off the center.
(which is a cool effect on its own if you know that guitar part is not going to be centered in the final mix).
In order to solve that, I changed that second cab block to a stereo one, and loaded 2 far-field cabs in stereo, and split them into 2 different lanes.
With the help of the Vol/Pan block, I made both lanes mono, with each one containing only one of the far-field cabs.
Then I inverted the phase of the left channel on one lane, and the right channel on the second lane.
Now when you blend in with the original normal cab it gives it a nice width, without any early reflections or reverb tails, and while keeping the sound centered.
It's also mono compatible.
I'm really happy with how it sounds so I thought I'd share!