Kaltar said:
> The ESQ1 Is Stereo.
>
> Mike, Do You Make All Your Synths Run Dry Before Reaching Your Reverb? Or Do
> You Use The Reverb In The Synths Also?
Heh. You should read the long letter I wrote in the "TalkBack" column of the
February 2004 issue of _Recording_ on this very subject...
In short, my use of effects and stereo routing varies from application to
application and song to song. The problem with stereo reverb and ambience
internal to keyboards is that every keyboard ends up occupying its own
soundspace that doesn't relate to the soundspace of any other keyboard.
If you have a whole stack of wide stereo images on top of one another, you get
undifferentiated mush rather than a sensation of sounds within the same space.
Or, in cruder terms, if everything's in stereo, nothing's in stereo. (This
problem has gotten worse, rather than better, as miked guitar amps and DI'ed
basses, both basically mono signals, have been replaced by ooey gooey stereo
soundmush from direct-input amp modelers and effects processors.)
One eye-opening set of tests that I recommend: listen to a favorite patch on a
synth four ways...in stereo with all the effects, in stereo without all the
effects (whoops, why does it suddenly sound mono?), in mono with all the
effects (hey, where's all that luscious spaciousness?), and in mono without
all the effects (eeyucccchh!!). You learn very quickly why so many people who
use old analog synths continue to use old analog synths.
What's really funny, of course, is that in software synthesis you often can't
choose to run a synth in mono. It won't let you do it, period.
mike
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Rothwell: "You mean musicians?"
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