Mid Side Plugin Question

[Debutante]

Hey again music makers...I'm learning to make good use of M/S but whenever I seperate the channels and insert a plugin for each stereo track, my overall volume falls quite sharply after I decode at the master track. Here's what I do:

1. Double my stereo track into two seperate tracks
2. Insert an encoder plugin for each stereo track
and pan.
3. Send each to a master track where I then decode
the M/S.

Am I doing something wrong or is the loss in amplitude normal?....CHEERS!

[citizenchunk]

the encoder must be fed a stereo input; i.e. you must insert it on a stereo track with stereo audio, NOT split mono.

== chunk

[Kang]

An easier way to do M/S may be to just copy the Side track (recorded with the figure and reverse the polarity of one of them then hard pan them. Then just adjust those two together as your sides, and the other track as your mid.

Hope that makes sense, you don't really need a plug to do M/S in a DAW.

[popsych]

An easier way to do M/S may be to just copy the Side track (recorded with the figure and reverse the polarity of one of them then hard pan them. Then just adjust those two together as your sides, and the other track as your mid.

Hope that makes sense, you don't really need a plug to do M/S in a DAW.

so much easier with the voxengo MSED and it's free. Why bother with routing and splitting when it can be done much more intuitevely ?

[ezeeboogie]

Or use UKM MSTools.