Another option: for a wider stereo image, try recording the track as close to exactly the same as possible. If you're using BB or RB, simply ask RB to render from the same real track 2 different times. This would work better I think , with tracks like acoustic strumming guitar since that would tend to render more exactly the same than other instruments. Place them in separate tracks and pan them opposite by at least 40% or more. There should be a nice wide image as a result. There's not really a need from that point forward to wide pan anything else in that fashion since the ears and brain will hear the wide image and convince you the entire mix is wide.

Using the same exact track and nudging them a few clicks apart can introduce comb filtering. That is very undesirable in the mix. It happens since the tracks are exact digital duplicates and the freqs will interact with each other going into and out of phase depending on the exact frequency of the notes and how close in milliseconds the tracks are spaced.

It's possible to get comb filtering from the method I urged you to use but since the tracks are simply close and not exact, the differences are generally enough so that CF is reduced to lower levels and can be controlled more easily.

I never use the nudge function to create the doubling and layering that I use on all my vocal tracks and harmonies. I use multiple takes.... 5 to 8 at times. Acoustic guitars are almost always doubled in this same manner. This is super easy in Real Band or any other DAW.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 07/18/14 06:11 AM.
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