Hello there!
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May someone did some MS recordings with the DR70D? I just played with Rode NT2-A @Fig8 (side) and Beyerdynamic MCE 86 II (mid) on my DR70D (Firmware 1.14)... The problem is: I can see (meters) but can 't hear the side signal in any monitor settings ("Moni" or "Rec") during recording or playback and the "Wide" parameter seems not to work properly (may because of lack of the side signal). If I play back the signal on my DAW (M->C; -Side->L; +Side->R) there no real stereo information in it. Any ideas?
Cheers, Andreas
Hmm, it looks like they have changed this function in the new firmware. I'm looking at pg. 27 of the manual where it describes mid-side and it doesn't say anything about a "wide" option. It's nice they added this, although I prefer to record my M/S tracks raw and matrix them later.
Several things could have gone wrong:
Were the mics plugged into channels 1 and 2 or 3 and 4? Did you mid-side settings reflect this?
Was the MID mic (Beyer) Ch 1 and SIDE mic (Rode) Ch 2? If you're using the M/S matrix, it will not record properly the other way according to the manual.
Were you set to record your two channels a stereo track or as two separate mono tracks?
Was your NT2-A facing left or right?*
Did you hear signal at the time of recording through both channels, listening through headphones?
Are you sure something recorded onto both tracks?
One thing I notice is that you made a manual M/S matrix in your DAW where you've duplicated the mid track and flipped the polarity. You only do that if you have NOT matrixed the M/S tracks at the time of recording (using the MONI option). If you chose "REC" in the Mid/Side settings in the 70D, that means you have recorded the tracks decoded to normal L/R stereo, and you should NOT make a manual M/S matrix, but should just be treating it as a normal stereo recording.
*Your matrix is also backwards than the normal way - usually the mid side faces left and you keep that track in positive polarity, and then you duplicate that track and flip the polarity to make the R side track. I'm not sure if that would have an effect or not, but if the onboard M/S in the 70D is expecting the mid mic to be in positive polarity facing left and you had it the other way, it's possible that could cause problems.