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Maybe I'm misspeaking, but when you take something, duplicate it, and flip polarity, isn't it now perfectly 180 degrees out of phase with itself, so it cancels to a null? Maybe I'm using the wrong term here, but that's what I'm trying to say - in the mix, you have a pair of "side" tracks that...

ok, but that sort of cuts against the view that M/S offers better mono compatibility, no? Again, I didn't spend more than a few minutes playing with this, had a bunch of mics and stands out anyway so set up a mic config, tracked, duplicated and flipped one, bussed them together, and then slid...

Where my issues seem to be coming from (and I'm 99% sure it wasn't the mics, they weren't physically touching but they were close) was the duplicated and phase-reversed track off the figure-8 mic. I was following this: https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/introduction-mid-sides-recording...

Miller is an absolutely monster guitarist. Glad to see him getting attention. And, of course, Andy Timmons is one of my faves.

Then I must have done something wrong when I gave this a shot. My workflow was this: *Position a condenser in cardioid mode facing the source (here an acoustic guitar), with a ribbon aligned 90 degrees above it, so the figure 8 pattern was side to side. *record to seperate tracks, then...

I would STRONGLY recommend listening to a mix through real speakers before finalizing it, if you're doing a lot with mid-side techniques. The problem with mid-side and headphones, is the out-of-phase tracks never get a chance to interact - one goes straight from your left headphone speaker to...

I'm a guitarist. I've played and recoded for way closer to 30 years than I'm comfortable admitting. I'm exceedingly familiar with distorted electric guitar. A big power chord will shit all over the same register as a viola, if it's also playing in that same range... but if you leave that for...

Thanks! Mainly though I just needed to procrastinate. 😆 But I think it's a matter of money being ok as long as the incentive structure is right. Broken incentive structures and you get broken results.

Oh that's weird. :lol: I didn't have that sort of cancelation issue you did, when I experimented a bit with mid-side, but I didn't like it because if I moved my head back and forth in the stereo spectrum, the guitar was very "unstable" - it would change significantly depending on where your...

Though, I also think this isn't ALWAYS a bad thing. It's easy to choose examples where it is, but I'll make a counterpoint (though one that will take some explanation, since at first blush it seems a perfect example of the evils of money, lol). I'm a pretty serious cyclist. I'm no pro, but...

But I guess my point here was if those choices are in the arrangement, rather than in the mix, they're WAY easier. As an example, my dad is a pianist, and seveeral years back he, my uncle, and I did a roots rock sort of project together that was a ton of fun. Most of my dad's playing is...

To try to answer this in as simple terms as possible - A compressor only SELECTIVELY turns things down, over that set threshold. What that does in practice is lowers the volume of the very loudest bits of your audio, without lowering the rest of it.* So, when you turn up the volume on...

Well, I'm not even sure of that. If your arrangement, from day one, includes those rock elements, and the arrangement is well thought out to leave space for the bass and guitars, then you're going to have a LOT fewer problems in the mix than if you try dropping a rock band into an existing...

There are a number of "ah-ha!" moments I've had in my career as a home recording hobbyist/enthusiast, but one of the big ones was realizing how much a good arrangement is critical to a good mix. If nothing is fighting for stereo/frequency space that something else already has, things pretty much...

I mean, I think you can see my confusion. :laughings: I officially have no idea what point you're trying to make.

Saw this same argument posted in a Home Recording facebook group - you as well? I don't sing, so I have no horse in this race, do whatever works for you, I guess. :) Just curious if it was the same person.

The OP did eventually post a clip, and my best guess was he was feeding the VST a signal a lot hotter than it was expecting... but he hasn't been back, so I don't know if adjusting input levels helped him any. I'm curious, but what can you do.

No worries at all, I TOTALLY respect that commitment!

I'm not brave enough to wade though TGF. :lol: For my purposes, personally, while demoign I've just been using the old LePou Lecto with various IRs because it actually does a fairly good job of getting me into the ballpark of my preferred lead sounds, and that one responds very normally with a...

I'm not the OP. :lol: And again, unless I'm very badly mistaken, the issue isn't the OP is recording a DI and wondering why it soounds like garbage when he plays it back, he's recording a DI and then feeding it into an amp sim plugin and wondering why it sounds like garbage, and if that's the...