Recent content by bouldersoundguy

That will cause some phase interactions when you sum the mono LF back with the stereo part. It's not a massive downside, but a high pass filter on the difference ("side") channel is cleaner. It's possible to "roll your own" if you've got a plugin that will convert both ways between stereo and...

TP Basslane is an old free VST I used to use for that. You might have to search around for the free version, and it probably won't be a VST3. Now I use FabFilter Pro-Q 3 which has a "side" option in the filter controls.

I thought the technical info was fine, it was more of a minor nitpick. DACs were designed a certain way to provide consistent performance, output level per digital level. Making DACs so they don't clip is fine, but it's really pretty simple to make audio files that don't clip regardless of...

One gripe so far (not done watching). DACs that clip with intersample peaks aren't necessarily "cheap," they probably just meet the Red Book standard, which specifies output voltages per digital level. In the early days of digital audio, processing was done in analog and converted directly to...

I see a lot of wave file mixes mastered to 0 dBFS peak. That has the potential for producing peaks above 0 dBFS. In fact, it's virtually guaranteed given modern audio production methods. There are two reasons for this. First is how digital data is converted to analog. DACs have to process the...

Put the interface by the computer, set the level there with plenty of headroom so you never approach 0 dBFS and record without worrying about it. Getting finished product levels is done in a later step.

Audio interfaces are designed to handle all the audio inputs and outputs, and they typically have a dedicated ASIO driver for that purpose. Using USB headphones defeats that function. You can use them, but you will probably have to go into the audio properties and select a driver other than the...

They're all going to have those features. We all just learn the ones we need for whatever we're doing. I find Reaper pretty usable. It's $60, I think. The demo is fully functional.

My first question is, why are you recording that close to 0 dBFS? It sounds like it might be an Audacity thing. I don't have that problem with my 6i6 in Vegas Pro.

Pretty much any DAW or audio editor can narrow the stereo separation. It's one of the most basic processes in audio. Some DAWs have two pan knobs on stereo tracks, which you simply rotate toward the center as desired.

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I don't know Ableton, but yes, in most DAWs you can make an input a single stereo channel and it will record a single file with left and right channels. If the DAW records them as two separate mono files, that's fine as well. I would keep them fully panned at this stage because you can't really...

I suspect the pan controls just affect the playback. In any case, record the left and right of the stereo mix as entirely separate audio tracks (typically in one stereo file). If you want to narrow the image, you can do it after digitizing as part of the mastering process.

Yep, return effects through a normal channel when possible.