Reply To: Do you like L-R widening overdrive guitars or not and why?

[KevinParticipant]

Hi Guido,

I am sorry. Let me clarify. What I mean is this:

Widening guitars as two recorded (read re-amped), nearly identical parts with a different amp, panned hard L - R. "Nearly identical" because I've copied the GT part of one chorus underneath another chorus and vice versa.

As engineers, we all know and like the effect of that "larger than life" guitar-wall-of-sound that gets projected out of your speakers. However, by applying this technique, you immediately deflect the attention of the listener to the impact of the effect and not to the guitar part itself, which might be great if it are acoustic strums, but if you do that with an electric guitar in overdrive, playing power chords you don't have much space left for other instruments in the stereo image as well as in the frequency spectrum.

Moreover, if there is another distortion GT that plays a solo for example and you want to have that solo in the center, you have to change the tone of either the solo guitar and/or the widespread LR guitars with EQ because, well, the center between the speakers is a ghost spot and you want to avoid muddiness, phasing, cancelation, superimposing, and all kinds of other nastiness that will transpire randomly.

I can imagine that guitar players don't like it if you change their tone, so my question is:

As a guitar player, do you like L-R widening overdrive guitars or not and why?