..hoping that maybe, some day, somebody as kind, wonderful, helpful, and a dear friend, like Gutbucket, might help talk me througha mix. (sucking up enough, Lee?)
I owe you so much my friend. I originally came to TS asking about baffles back in 2006 and was immediately directed to you as resident expert! More than happy to lend whatever expertise I can.
Lets test your patience :)
I've been looking for this recording since I mentioned it. Its not exactly as I remember it (from 2009), in terms of mic placement, but its close. I've done this setup a few times now, and later eforts were with better time alignment than these images. The center mic is about 5 or 6" in front of the omnis, as this was the only way that I could get it in close to the baffle, and centered, for this impromptu rigging.
Rigged as three mic recording:
DPA 4060 baffled omni stereo, with mics intentionally closer to baffle face for isolation (in hopes of doing something like a figure-eight response, and possible m/s rendering in post-edit).
DPA 4028 compact sub-card at 0º
I've found that if I invert the polarity of either 4060, that the sound opens up.
What seems to be happening, without the phase inversion, is the the 4028 is bringing the whole right side of the ensemble to center, and leaving the left side of the ensemble in a more stereo width spread. It seems to phase cancel the right side to a degree, bringing it to center.
If I invert phase on either 4060 track, one one track only, it opens back up again, bringing full stereo width, and proper right channel placement.
So, to set these tracks up for a quasi-m/s mix, which 4060 track should be phase inverted? It doesn't seem critical for a generalized mix, so, lets get it right for a possibe m/s rendering.
problem for me, and a proper m/s...
I'm a computer klutz, and, doing a proper m/s rendering is eluding me. YOu've mentioned setting something like this up for a quasi-m/s rendering.
How? please and thank you.