SpamBurglar
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Have you ever noticed that commercial music sounds significantly different in stereo as opposed to mono. I'm not talking about ambience or stereo image, but actual high-frequency fidelity. It sounds like the high end (guessing from 10kHz up) is about 3db lower when I hear something recorded and mastered as stereo in mono. I am referring to modern music and not music from pre-stereophonic days.
Is there a mastering effect that changes the phasing (or something else) of the high end so that when played back in stereo gives the music and extra "shimmer"? Is this just a product of some pychoacoustic principle in which the brain is fooled into hearing more high end definition when in stereo?
I want to be able to recreate this and am not quite sure how to do it. Does anyone know what this is? Thanks.
Have you ever noticed that commercial music sounds significantly different in stereo as opposed to mono. I'm not talking about ambience or stereo image, but actual high-frequency fidelity. It sounds like the high end (guessing from 10kHz up) is about 3db lower when I hear something recorded and mastered as stereo in mono. I am referring to modern music and not music from pre-stereophonic days.
Is there a mastering effect that changes the phasing (or something else) of the high end so that when played back in stereo gives the music and extra "shimmer"? Is this just a product of some pychoacoustic principle in which the brain is fooled into hearing more high end definition when in stereo?
I want to be able to recreate this and am not quite sure how to do it. Does anyone know what this is? Thanks.