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Quote:Good idea,
You have to be careful with some “Stereo” outputs on pedals as sometimes as in the Pulsar their stereo effect is created by throwing one side or output out of phase.
It sounds wide in stereo BUT is your signal is played back or heard in mono the signals will recombine and the effect will cancel out and vanish!I remember years ago doing a commercial that I used a stereo delay on to bounce the sound around.
It was crucial to the sound and track.
Well I heard the jingle on the AM radio one day and that big delay effect was GONE.
All that was left was this plunky little guitar that was ridiculous sounding !!!
It turns out the delay created its stereo with phase reversal and AM radio is mono.
Poof.. vanishing effects!
I now call it ‘Fake Stereo”.
I always check now before I record a pedal in stereo to see if it is true stereo.
I did find a work around and that is, after you recording a fake stereo effect add 5 to 15 milliseconds of delay to one side and the effect will not vanish if heard in mono.
BillQuote:TIP:an interesting alternative approach for splitting the signal
into two branches (at the “send”-side) would be
using the 2 outputs of a “stereo”-pedal (e.g.: “PULSAR”)
instead of the “Y-adapter”…
Bill when doing a session like that do you get any sort of idea of the venue for the ads?
Like “this one is for the tri-state area both AM/FM etc..”That must have been a nightmare to hear the plinky ridiculous guitar instead of the cool delay
effect. I like the idea of adding 5 to 15 ms of delay on one side, interesting – I think mono
gets overlooked a bit these days.
