On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 21:38 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
MS is not a 'fashion mixing technique'.
MS for microphony makes sense and I didn't call this a 'fashion mixing
technique', I was talking about "mid/side EQ". I never heard the term
"mid/side EQ" before and I've got doubts, that it's a useful mixing
technique.
For all the appreciated criticisms of M/S EQ, I'm really just starting
to learn about mastering, so I'm trying lots of things. Up until
lately, my mixes have been simple enough that it hasn't been that
difficult to get them to translate across different speaker systems, but
lately, I have been creating some very complicated mixes that are
offering me an opportunity to expand my mastering knowledge. So I'm
experimenting...and learning a lot of things that are new to me.
One of the things I've been disovering is that actually, the EQ that
sounds right to me doesn't seem to be the problem. I've found that
there are commercial mixes out there that are both colder than mine, and
some from the 70's that are warmer than mine, and they all translate
somehow. So EQ curve is probably not the problem either way. It seems
more related to compression and limiting -- my newer mixes have lots of
transients all over the place, which sound great on speakers that render
them well.
But some stereos seem to have woofers/subwoofers that only get engaged
when there's a fair amount of power, which means that if you don't turn
the volume up, it creates the impression that the EQ is mostly high mids
and treble. If you turn up the volume, the "problem" disappears as the
woofers begin to engage. Commercially recorded music doesn't do this on
the same stereo. On other speaker systems, my mix never manifests a
problem at any volume setting. This all seems to be about dynamics.
I am already using some compression and limiting, but obviously I
haven't nailed it yet. I'm wondering if the Calf multiband limiter
and/or multiband compressor may be useful here. Obviously, I don't want
to squash the life out of my mix, but I do want to get its transients
tamed enough that they'll survive playback across lots of kinds of
speakers.
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