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Oh and yeah! your daws standard EQ may allow you to switch between mid or side EQ. It will probably become a standard for all daws in short time.

When anyone mentions M/S processing I think predominently they are talking about Mid/Side EQ. The M/S plugins normally just encode the signal so you have individual volume control for the sides and mid channel independently. I did watch that video posted above, and this was all about M/S EQ. As...

You have to be subtle with mid/side processing. I try not to use it unless i am struggling tooth and nail to get a little space. I am assuming you are only talking about M/S processing in general, and nothing to do with recording with the M/S technique. If using M/S processing in mastering for...

I don't see a problem with it. A limiter always goes on my mix buss even if I am only limiting 1 peak by half a db in the entire song.

Thanks for letting me know about that Mr.Roush, I like getting into conversations on here sometimes. I learn something everytime. Cheers for that. The match EQ does things that are just impossible to do by ear, it's a great little hack. I do try to smooth out the lines a bit though to make...

Oh yeah and the mixers I am looking up to are the ones that mixed many of my favourite records. But it wouldn't matter a great deal if a new up and coming engineer that mixed music that I disliked gave me advice. I will certainly listen! Doesn't mean I would take it as gospel though. I know...

I would not use a light meter on a drawing for the same reason I wouldn't use a spectrum analyzer on one of my cooking recipes. Unless it helped? I might use a magnifying glass, a reference drawing and feel. I might even hold a physical drawing up to the light because in this instance, what...

When I am doing my art, drawing. I analyse how the professionals shade, layer, the pressures, gradients etc. Just saying (hope this doesn't come across sarcastic or rude, I'm tired and need sleep now)

Yeah that's exactly it! I love plugins that help me understand and will speed up the process, my goal at the end of the day is to not have to use them at all, but anything that speeds up the process and gets me to that point quicker is definitely a must have. Time is our most valuable asset...

I'm a minimalist when it comes to plugins too. I try to always go for stock and use as little of them as I can. I can't see myself buying plugins in general. Maybe Soothe2, or the equivellent and much cheaper DSEQ one day because I literally have no idea how I could ever achieve similar results...

I don't think you should mix flat at all. I am looking for those bumps and troughs during different sections, but for massive hard hitting chorus's I do think it's good to get a very dense flat/limited/wide frequency response (wall of sound) for maximum impact when those type of songs call for...

There is a tilt so it's not (really) flat, just visually. when everything is going at once flat (visually) s good IMO. When the vocal is not playing then I am looking for a slight dip at 1k ish, when im listening to a bass/kick heavy song i'm looking for a low end bump. Orchestral/score i'm...

Izotope Tonal balance is practically a spectrum analyzer with an intelligent hold time, it's great though! I use ProQ2 on the master as my spectrum analyzer, it's great for that! It has a tilt enabled by default for that meaty low end/smooth highs if you get a relatively flat line. It's a great...

Ah Nice one! I was thinking of buying the MPAII as it happens. If this Audio Developments field recorder does the job, I may not need to. I might have gotten lucky, the Pre-amps are the same as the ones used in Neve consoles, Much more experimentation needed before I can really make up my mind...

Yeah, your pre-amp is outputting a Line level signal, you can go into your interface mic pre-amps with minimum pre-amp gain and you will be coming in pretty hot most likely, if you're not clipping you're fine. If I am running through an external pre-amp with 1 mic then I will go into a DI box...

Were those cans comfortable? They don't look it? I'm really happy with my; Beyerdynamic DT770's for recording (they block out the whole world, and bleed (what bleed?)) and Sennheiser HD650's for mixing....... (for the very final stages of the song)

Interesting points. I'm learning a lot here. I know that the starting point on a guitar amp for many is to balance the gain on the breakup point so it sounds clean when you play lightly but you can dig in to your pickups for the crunch. It's just a best of both worlds technique. You can lightly...

I got sidetracked talking about mics and saturation. I do realise the discussion was mainly on the AD/DA side. There is an improvement in sound quality from when I upgraded from the Line6 UX1 to the apogee duet, but that is not saying much. The Apogee was at the time a pretty high quality 2...

I don't need to turn up the 57 to max anymore, that was when I was using that old crappy Line6UX1 and even the UX2. Even on max I think I used to hit peaks of like -35dbfs lol. with a noise floor that was louder almost than my actual recording. But if I am relying on the 18i20 preamps only, the...

There was a massive difference when I went from the line 6 UX1 to an apogee duet II, now I am using a focusrite 18i20 purely because I get more ins/outs the sound is not as crisp and the pre-amps suck balls compared to the apogee duet II (although they are perfectly useable!) but those minor...