I use my quad cortex with 2 headrush 108 speakers, if I use a st ir loader with 2 ir’s it sounds great when both ir’s are running central but if I pan one to the left and one to the right it sounds thin and loses the fullness.
Am I approaching stereo the wrong way?
Should I use 2 single ir blocks and pan each individual either fully left or fully right or am I over thinking and there’s an easier solution?
Thanks for any help in advance
Depends on how you’re running the rest of the signal chain. What’s your grid look like?
Amp into ir and that’s it.
It might be helpful if you could take a pic of your signal chain on your display screen (not in stomp or scene mode); It could be as simple as proper outputs are not selected;
Also, have you considered running an EQ block after each IR?
Finally, what are your connections from QC to the speakers? XLR? TRS? TS? if just using TS cables, panning either amp left and right would cause the loss in “fullness”
if it’s really just a case of 1 IR block summed to mono vs hard panned, that’s probably the cause of the difference. Center-Panning is essentially summing the signal if you’re only using 1 Output. Both IRs are getting sent to both sides, so it’s boosting the signal. When you pan them L/R, you’re losing half the signal
Depending on how your Output is configured (would help to see) it’s most likely just a case of some frequencies being boosted/phased/summed when they’re added together with center-panning.
Are you going to have any actual ‘stereo’ information in the chain? If it’s only an amp and IR, is there a need to pan them?