guitar pan

in a two guitar metal band recording, with two mics per cab, would you typically pan each guitar left and right?... or mix guitar A left and guitar B right?

You should get some good replies but one technique I know is used quite often is to pan hard left and right and then mix the two via another track bus with heavy Compression and EQ change and even a very slight delay underneath the mix in the centre similar to Parallel/NY compression, Also. This can add to the power and depth of the guitars without masking other areas. HTH :)

4 tracks of 4 different takes. 1: hard left 2: hard right 3: 80% left 4: 80% right

Also, however you finally decide to pan them (there really is no one size fits all), put them in a track folder and experiment to see if you like something like SStillwell's stereo width in the folder FX chain.

thanks guys. so far im preffering to pan guitar A around 80% left/mic1 and center on mic2 and guitar B 80% right/mic1 and center mic2 with a touch of chorus on both center mics.