Hi Folks,
Are any of youse guys remastering stereo mixes - this is called homerecording.com so I've found that a large degree of threads deal with recording and mixing and mastering of the tracks at hand.
I'm remastering some old mixes from tape and tearing out the mid-side components for seperate NR, EQ & compression then gluing them back together to rebuild the Left-Right stereo field. I've only done a few songs this way so far and am getting the feeling of greater control in certain cases.
I got this idea most recently from a guy over on audiomasters forum talking about the m/s feature of Endorphin. Also Bob Katz 'Mastering Audio' book deals with mid-side or mono-stereo components of a stereo mix and mastering thereof - page 149, hehe. Also certain equipment like Manley, Joe Meek, Q3 EQ and even M-Audio are appearing with m/s encoders and decoders for that type of adjustment so there's some manuals I've read describing this too.
Anybody doing this here that want to yack about it ? At this point I can describe it as the difference between making adjustments to the left and right channels that will affect the mono or center of the stereo field - or alternately breaking the mid (mono) and side (stereo) components out of the stereo mix (ms encoding) and adjusting them directly then recombining them (ms decoding to stereo).
Now I have 4 pieces of the stereo mix to work with - left, right, mid, side. 100% more potential of contol.
In my case I'm using it for repair and remastering - I don't know if you folks need this over here since you usually have the full mix to alter if you need to.
What about it - anybody doing this ?
Are any of youse guys remastering stereo mixes - this is called homerecording.com so I've found that a large degree of threads deal with recording and mixing and mastering of the tracks at hand.
I'm remastering some old mixes from tape and tearing out the mid-side components for seperate NR, EQ & compression then gluing them back together to rebuild the Left-Right stereo field. I've only done a few songs this way so far and am getting the feeling of greater control in certain cases.
I got this idea most recently from a guy over on audiomasters forum talking about the m/s feature of Endorphin. Also Bob Katz 'Mastering Audio' book deals with mid-side or mono-stereo components of a stereo mix and mastering thereof - page 149, hehe. Also certain equipment like Manley, Joe Meek, Q3 EQ and even M-Audio are appearing with m/s encoders and decoders for that type of adjustment so there's some manuals I've read describing this too.
Anybody doing this here that want to yack about it ? At this point I can describe it as the difference between making adjustments to the left and right channels that will affect the mono or center of the stereo field - or alternately breaking the mid (mono) and side (stereo) components out of the stereo mix (ms encoding) and adjusting them directly then recombining them (ms decoding to stereo).
Now I have 4 pieces of the stereo mix to work with - left, right, mid, side. 100% more potential of contol.
In my case I'm using it for repair and remastering - I don't know if you folks need this over here since you usually have the full mix to alter if you need to.
What about it - anybody doing this ?
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