On Thu, 19 May 2016, at 17:07, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2016 16:18:44 +0200, William Light wrote: > >On Tue, 17 May 2016, at 15:45, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > >> But: M/S processing is really only useful when you are remastering a > >> stereo mix without access to the individual components, or maybe if > >> you are dealing with stereo mic recordings as part of a larger mix. > >> If you are creating a multitrack mix from individual channels, M/S > >> buys you exactly nothing that couldn't be done better and more > >> precisely in the individual channels. > > > >Disagree vehemently, M/S processing gives very natural control of the > >stereo image. I find that I use M/S EQing when I want to shape the > >stereo image subtly and M/S compression when I want to exaggerate it or > >make it more exciting. > > In more than 30 years of audio recording I _never_ used M/S processing. > M/S microphone technique is something else and is useful, because it > does cause a mono-compatible signal, due to not being based on travel > time, but instead it's based on intensity. To "exaggerate" a signal by > intensity with a mixing console, just pan pots are required. IOW Jörn > is right, if you have full access to the individual components, you > could use pan pots instead (more than one channel completely to the > left and the other completely to the right is impossible), resp. you > could use more enhanced techniques to widen or "shape the stereo image > subtly". "Natural" stereo hearing is much based on travel time as well > as intensity. Dismissing a technique just because you've never personally used it is short-sighted. While I don't have 30 years of experience under my belt, I'm far from a neophyte, and I find M/S processing to yield results that are difficult to reproduce with "just pan pots". I am curious to know what sort of "more enhanced techniques" you speak of. Never can know too many, after all. -w > Regards, > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
