Topic: editing/remixing lopsided mixes.

[firmdragon]

ok say, i just did an aud recording and i was standing near the stage next to a small PA where the vocals come out.  so the overal mix of the recording sounds good except that it sounds like the singer is singing beside you.  so vocal heavy on one side.  how would you guys mix this?

[mmmatt]

isolate the side with heavy vocals (copy and paste to a mono wav file if you can)
play with eq until it is mostly all vocals
copy the vocal only channel and mix with the oposite side.
if you have multitrack software this is pretty easy to get the right mix, if not it is trial and error
Make sure the new mixed side didn't overdrive.  If it did you need to lower the level of both sources and try again
normalize the original vocal heavy side and the new  mixed side individually
use the original vocal-heavy side and the new other side to make a new stereo wav
listen to see if you got it right.
if not, then start all over 

I think this is all you can do.  It will most likely screw up the immage, but there isn't much else you can do other than making the whole recording mono
Best thing to do is to record from the center of the soundstage.

Good luck!

Matt

[jhirte]

Could also do a channel mix in Cool Edit - easiest way, but you'll loose some of the stereo effect this way.

[VA_TAPER]

try inverting the phase on the non-vocal heavy side, the running it through a M/S plugin, adjust the levels and it might just provide what you are looking for.

peace, chris