Hello All!...I was just wondering...in the mixing stage, do you always have to return a mid-side converted signal back into stereo, or can it be left as such. I know Voxengos AWESOME update for their MSED plugin has an "inline" mode that allows you to turn up either mid or side portions of a signal. I was just curious as to whether anyone using M/S would care to elaborate on such a practice, its downfalls...etc...CHEERS!
There's something ridiculous about this question, and I don't know what it is, so please fell free to chide...
Mid-Side Stereo Conversion
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- KVRAF
- 2049 posts since 18 Sep, 2003 from Seattle USA
What do you mean by "mid-side converted"?Debutante wrote:...in the mixing stage, do you always have to return a mid-side converted signal back into stereo, or can it be left as such.
You could mean 3 things I think:
1. You have 2 mono tracks that were recorded using m/s mic technique and not decoded to stereo yet.
2. You have 1 stereo track that you've encoded to m/s so that the former left=mid and the former right=side.
3. You have 1 stereo track with an instance of MSED with inline selected (internal to MSED encode-> gain controls -> decode).
I'm betting in general, in the case of a single instrument on a track (like you said during mixing), using the raw mid or a combination of the mid and side (to add a little ambience) would sound pretty good. Kind of like having a close mic and a 2nd mic farther away. Of course you won't get any of the stereo effect until you decode the raw m/s tracks to stereo and rebalance the signals to taste.
For a full mix (rebalancing or remastering), which is what I usually work with, then the raw m/s encoded tracks don't sound so good individually until they're decoded again.
My 3 cents!