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In this episode of the Home Music Studio 1 Podcast, David shares about a new aspect of the blog to be revealed soon. He also talks about a simple trick that you can use to fatten
your mixes.
View this Episode in iTunes.
In this episode of the Home Music Studio 1 Podcast, David shares about a new aspect of the blog to be revealed soon. He also talks about a simple trick that you can use to fatten
your mixes.
Good stuff. My main question would be about using stereo merged vs stereo seperation. It seems it makes a huge difference when panning. So what are your thoughts on that?
Certainly a valid question. Let me give you a bit of homework to research ;) Do some googleing on the Hass effect as Dan has mentioned. Understanding how the human brain perceives sound is important to understand. When it comes to stereo merged vs separation. The short answer is these along with panning (and tons of others) are simply ways to manipulate the audio within a stereo source. Merged does allow for a certain amount of panning but is equated most to a mono sound. The panning is much tighter usually. It basically takes two outside sources and places them in the center of a mix. True mono would not be stereo but on a single channel however. If you listen to two sources in two speakers at equal volume, eq, etc. It will sound like mono or in the center of the mix. The hass effect explains why. Stereo separation and any amount of it is more or less doing the same thing as panning only it adjusts both the left/right at the same time. All of these can be valid ways to get your audio in or out of the center and can be useful as needed. Smarter guys than me can tell you more science behind it but this I hope this is a good general idea for you.
back at ya!
Dave
Ahh, the good old Haas effect (with a slight twist). I often play around with the separation in time as well as panning. Your example uses 14ms of separation, but times up to 30ms should work as well. The phase cancelation can make a big difference (good and bad) with just a millisecond change.
The biggest thing I learned was that I use too much reverb! I would have cranked much more into that vocal, which is probably why my mixes often lack crispness.
Thanks for another great podcast, David!
You bet Dan, thanks for your feedback!
Great podcast David
.. Keep ’em acoming!
Thanks Mondie!, I’ll do my best. ;)