Stereo is the only way to play
Running in stereo gives your guitar a much bigger and wider sound. It makes it sound like your guitar is coming from everywhere and fills up the room. Virtually all recorded guitar sounds are in stereo to give it a full presence and a bigger sound. You can hear this effect when you listen to music on your headphones. To run your guitar stereo in live situation you can do it a number of ways.
For starters, use a stereo amplifier such as a fender Princeton chorus or any other digital modelling amp that has line 6 designated for stereo.
Secondly, use a modern digital guitar processor. Use any modern digital guitar processor. These units generally have two outputs (left/right). Then run two leads to two channels of a mixing desk or mixer/amp unit as long as the PA system is running in stereo. This is very important. Then you hard pan each channel to each of the left and right outputs.
Many mixing boards have both stereo channels and you can attach both outputs of your processor to one channel. If you wish to hear your guitar separately from the other instruments, you will still need to monitor your sound through some type of amp that is not part of the PA system. These days, most bands connect everything into a PA system and dont use any amps.
Additionally, you should use two amplifiers as well as an effect processor or any effect unit such as chorus or delay unit that has two outputs. One output goes to one amp and the other leads to the other amp. This lets you produce stereo sound without a PA system.
The down side of this is the set up is more time consuming, requires double rigging and twice as much actual equipment. It is a lot of work, however, the result is remarkably different from playing through a single mono amplifier. The sound quality is amazing and you get a stereo sound.
A few harmony machines will only sound good in a stereo configuration when set up to do complex harmonies. To make sure you are getting the best sound, you need to set up one of these systems.
Stereo sound systems make your guitar sound better and fills up the room. It enhances the listeners experience by giving them better quality sound and should be used all the time.
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