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Title: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: Brennan on April 03, 2011, 01:38:30 AM

Hey guys,

Been a while but I've been around. Great to meet some other tapers at the Echo in L.A. the other night.

I got this recording of Baseball Project there and I think it sounds pretty good. Only thing that bugs me is that it sounds too split left / right, and lacking in the "center". Does that make sense? Imagine you were standing there looking straight at the performers. It seems to be missing that center / middle area.

Here's the samples, let me know your thoughts please. I've only swapped the channels (I switched the mics - left on right, right on left - by accident) and normalized.

Long Before My Time (http://www.mediafire.com/?rf6m7m4ruyp9rlh)
Fairweather Fan (http://www.mediafire.com/?8ag40tu4402lggy)

They're mediafire links. Any ideas, I'm totally open to them! Thanks!!

Title: Re: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: newplanet7 on April 03, 2011, 11:49:59 AM

What was the lineage and configuration?

Title: Re: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: Brian Skalinder on April 03, 2011, 12:47:19 PM

I've not listened to the samples, but you might consider channel mixing.  Add some percentage of the L to the R, and vice versa.  This may create more common signal across the two channels and provide a more centered sound.  Experiment with the percentage until it sounds good to your ears.

Title: Re: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: Brennan on April 03, 2011, 05:59:52 PM

Quote from: newplanet7 on April 03, 2011, 11:49:59 AM

What was the lineage and configuration?

Church Cards > Church stc-9000 > R-09. In a DIN config, about 7.5 feet up. It seems like the config was a little too wide for the club, as in the mics were pointing more at the walls than the monitors in front of them.

Brian - I was playing with that but I wasn't sure if that was cheating... :P I'm going to play more with it right now.

Title: Re: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: runonce on April 04, 2011, 09:32:11 AM

I use panning a lot these days...

For stage taping - it lets you spread your mics out a little more than you might ordinary...

I can run mics 15 ft apart and still have a nice middle...but retain some left and right-ness to the image...

I run on the fly - so I cant testify how this would work in post...

Title: Re: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: bgreen on April 05, 2011, 04:34:53 PM

Try a tool like the Flux Stereo Tool and decrease your stereo width a tad

http://www.fluxhome.com/products/freewares/stereotool

Free download.

Title: Re: Move sound more to the "center"? **Samples**
Post by: Chuck on April 06, 2011, 06:27:59 PM

Awesome. Thanks for the link! This will be very useful to me.