Topic: Making a matrix mix?

[Maemajamma]

Anyone got any suggestions on what programs might be the best for mixing two sources?  Something fairly userfriendly.  I'm not an idiot, but I am lazy.  And something preferably that I can download.  But I'd go buy it if I had too.  Peace!!

[kskreider]

The search function works wonders for lazy people, but in the meantime I will recommend Wavelab. 

If you look around here you can find a link to a great workflow on how to do it.

[adubphoto]

I like cubase for mixing a matrix.

[Brian Skalinder]

There's also Adobe Audition, Audacity, Soundforge.  AFAIK, Audacity is the only free option.

[Teen Wolf Blitzer]

Samplitude.  It does everything!

[Maemajamma]

Cool thanks for the input!

[RebelRebel]

Samplitude.  It does everything!

what he said. it is a powerful multitrack recording and mastering program. I use it for anything over 2 tracks now.

[Chuck]

Has anyone here tried making a SBD/AUD matrix "on the fly" with the audience microphone actually on stage facing the audience? Moe's engineer records their shows this way. This way I would avoid the sound delay from mic's out in the audience in front of the PA. I don't have omni's, so I'll be running cardioid's (C-481's). I'd like to capture a nice wide image of the audience, because I'm assuming the mix will not have a wide soundstage. I'm considering splitting the cardioids 
I want to  do it this week. So, any help/advice/suggestions would be appreciated.

[wbrisette]

Has anyone here tried making a SBD/AUD matrix "on the fly" with the audience microphone actually on stage facing the audience?

We did this for the ACL festival 2 years ago? (maybe it was 3 years ago). The results were pretty good, these days I try to get as many sources as possible. There were some soundboard problems (or rather I had my cables in the wrong location) this past Sunday when I was recording the OSMF campground stage. I ended up mixing the two QTC-40 omni's on stage with my 4 mic rig in the audience (QTC-1 & SR-77) so the stage mics made up around 80% of the total mix. I did do this in post, but with a mixer you could do this on the fly. I use to carry around a Wendt X4 mixer to mix the omnis and cards with. Now everything gets run directly by the Deva and I make the mix later in Digital Performer.

Wayne

[cfox]

Has anyone here tried making a SBD/AUD matrix "on the fly" with the audience microphone actually on stage facing the audience?

 and I make the mix later in Digital Performer.

Wayne

could you tell us some of your steps in digital performer to mix these 4 channels...

[wbrisette]

could you tell us some of your steps in digital performer to mix these 4 channels...

Create 4 mono tracks (unless you have 2 stereo files, then you would create 2 stereo tracks), Pan each properly (L, or R 100%), then assign the output of that channel to a stereo subchannel. If I used 4 mics, then each mic would have it's own mono channel, those would go to two stereo subchannels, with the output of those going into a master fader channel. This way you have full control over each mic, and I put cards and omnis on their own sub-channel, so I get to mix those to my liking in the subchannel. With a soundboard, it's the same process, just more tracks.

Wayne

Edit: Maybe this picture will explain it better.... (FYI, in this case another submix is being made, all the mics are being fed into another channel (mics) which is used to blend the amount of mics vs. board in the final outcome).