Audacity midside help (why is my L channel louder then my R)

[Scooter]

I got the same results you did.  L chan 4dB hotter.  it sounded fine when i just lowered the L chan 4dB, then adjusted the S's with that relationship.  quite odd...

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I got the same results you did.  L chan 4dB hotter.  it sounded fine when i just lowered the L chan 4dB, then adjusted the S's with that relationship.  quite odd...

Did you use audacity and/or a plugin? I wonder if there isn't something in the mic that favors the positive lobe.

[Will_S]

I got the same results you did.  L chan 4dB hotter.  it sounded fine when i just lowered the L chan 4dB, then adjusted the S's with that relationship.  quite odd...

Did you use audacity and/or a plugin? I wonder if there isn't something in the mic that favors the positive lobe.

It's not unheard of for there to be a mismatch between the two lobes of a figure 8 mic.  See this thread for instance:  http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,80553.0/all.html

A 4dB imbalance in the mixdown seems a bit much though.

[SmokinJoe]

Wouldn't you need an additional step to mix the resulting stereo tracks down to a single stereo track?  The M M stereo track is really just dual-mono.  You'd want to mix the M/M stereo track with the -S/S stereo track.  That way, after combining the two stereo tracks, you'd have a single stereo track remaining:  one that's M + (-S) and one that's M + S.

Yes,  that happens in the end when I "export as wav".  It just says "I'm going to mix this down to a single stereo track OK?", and I let it.

I don't usually do a specific combine.  After my above steps I generally spend time playing with the levels in an effort to achieve my desired mix/side mix/width, and getting levels I'm happy with.  Then I export for tracking, and it's mixed down.

[Scooter]

I got the same results you did.  L chan 4dB hotter.  it sounded fine when i just lowered the L chan 4dB, then adjusted the S's with that relationship.  quite odd...

Did you use audacity and/or a plugin? I wonder if there isn't something in the mic that favors the positive lobe.

no.  i used nuendo, the old fashioned way, clone and invert the 3rd chan.  very strange indeed.

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no.  i used nuendo, the old fashioned way, clone and invert the 3rd chan.  very strange indeed.

Ok, then it's something with either my setup, or the mic. I'll try recording again tonight and see what I get.

Thanks folks, I appreciate the help.

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Hmm, I'm going to chalk it up to user error, as I didn't have that problem tonight for Mike Gordon. I'll post a sample tomorrow.

[Scooter]