Back on Tuesday 27 May 2008, Atte André Jensen was like: > Hi > > A question came up on the chuck list today, regarding how to invert the > phase of one channel. The poster wanted to use this "trick" to widen the > width of the stereo image, and it sure does. > NOOOOOOOOOO. This stupid trick is EVIL. > However now I'm thinking if it's a good idea in the first place. Besides > loosing mono-compatibility, I have a gut feeling that audio treated this > way will become very uncomfortable or even annoying to listen to after a > while. > It is VERY annoying. When listening to it with headphones, the side where the phase is inverted causes my ear to "itch". It's very annoying and uncomfortable, and I notice it immediately. > Does anyone have any thought about this? Should this "trick" simply be > avoided or are there situations where using it on some parts of a mix > would be ok (keeping in mind that the tracks in question will disappear > in mono)? Avoid this, and shoot anybody who tries to do this. It is annoying on headphones, and causes all sorts of frequency cancellation problems when played from stereo speakers. -Reuben _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
