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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: KLowe on May 30, 2006, 12:13:05 AM
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SSIA. have been thinking about getting a MS cap but not if it won't work w/ ua-5
I have been reading a lot on the technique but I guess I cannot conceptually figure out how the two lobes of the figure 8 fit in one channel.
In post...how do you take the info from a single channel MS and then create the M+s and the M-s? I am most familiar with CEP 2.1 but can use whatever software is easiest. Any pointers for post mix? Any good online tutorials?
Thanks in advance
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You can do MS with any two channel recorder, you just won't be able to monitor it in a MS mode. You can manually create the true L and R channels in post (use search), or you can use a plugin or some apps have built-in decoding.
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As tainted pointed out, with the UA-5 you will have to do the M/S > L/R in post, but that's easy. I use Cool Edit for my decoding. Go to amplify > channel mixer. There should be a preset for M/S > L/R. I think it defaults to equal amounts of mid and side in each channel. It's a decent starting place to experiment from. It is possible to create some wildly different mixes, but I have found if you favor one mic too much over the other, the imaging will start to collapse. I could send you a disc of raw M/S files if you want to try it out.
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One quick question. Do I understand it correctly that the UA-5 doesn't supply phantom power to inputs 3 & 4. So to run a third mic into the UA-5 you would have to give it seperate phantom power if it required it?
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One quick question. Do I understand it correctly that the UA-5 doesn't supply phantom power to inputs 3 & 4. So to run a third mic into the UA-5 you would have to give it seperate phantom power if it required it?
Correct.
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Thanks.