No Phase reverse... what do i do?

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MessianicDreams said:
GOOD. thought i was going bonkers!
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nah, you're not...I guess in this case technically a polarity invert would give you a more "truer" result. I really wasn't paying attention to what he was saying his source mics were capturing.
Still might improve the overall tonality though....better than the original alignment. Could be a quick fix if you don't have that polarity/invert thing ;)
 
guitarmagic said:
And for the record ableton has served me well for 3 years now and i consider it a real program. I'm not going to change programs because it doesnt have one button.
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No offense but any audio program that can't even invert the polarity is worthless for anything but screwing around. Besides, Reaper is free to try, easy to use and 1000x better.
 
guitarmagic said:
I'm not going to change programs because it doesnt have one button.
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I don't know the first thing about Ableton, but...... I'd be a little curious what else I was missing out on if a rudimentary and really important tool like invert wasn't there. I'm not saying you're using the wrong program, only you can decide that. I'm just urging you to look at your options and be aware of your current limitations. ;)
 
OK. I don't have Abelton Live, but a quick search on Google brought up a Harmony Central thread that shows that Live indeed does have a "phase" tool:

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Those that bash Abelton as a DAW need to realise first that while some people use it as a DAW, it really isn't a traditional DAW like Logic or Cubase. It's intended as a live performance tool. As such, the idea is you import pre-processed audio loops and snippets in it, and trigger them live as you improvise with the arrangement. It is intended as a DJ tool, to do mashups, and live sets.

Try that with ProTools, Cubase (which I use and love), Logic, DP or any other wannabe.
 
noisewreck said:
OK. I don't have Abelton Live, but a quick search on Google brought up a Harmony Central thread that shows that Live indeed does have a "phase" tool:
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I saw that, and was curious- does it say whether it can be used with non-stereo tracks? Like say- two snare tracks?
 
Wow i'm going to check that out right now i didn't even think to look there.
 
Thanks a lot! i quickly slapped two mics on a snare and recorded quickly. It came out very thin souding obviously. I put the utility on the bottom snare channel and turned on the two phase buttons. Voila! It worked!

And yes ableton is a software meant for dj's. I used to make dj sets and its great for making beats. But i stopped that a long time ago and now i use it as a daw. It has everything i need(now that it has the phase reversal) and it works great. I have used a lot of programs and have a couple others on my computer(audition, cubase and reaper) but albeton is more comfortable for me.
 
Thanks a lot! i quickly slapped two mics on a snare and recorded quickly. It came out very thin souding obviously. I put the utility on the bottom snare channel and turned on the two phase buttons. Voila! It worked!

And yes ableton is a software meant for dj's. I used to make dj sets and its great for making beats. But i stopped that a long time ago and now i use it as a daw. It has everything i need(now that it has the phase reversal) and it works great. I have used a lot of programs and have a couple others on my computer(audition, cubase and reaper) but albeton is more comfortable for me.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
It both hardware and software it's easiest (and usually) accomplished by an actual polarity reversal. In hardware, it's simply flipping the leads. In software its simply multiplying the value by -1 - much easier than calculating a 180° phase change.

Oh, no, I'm slowly being pulled back in..........:eek::)

G.
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Ok, I can see how that would work. I never really gave it too much thought. I personally don't care how they go about it. I usually just try switching and listen to see if it sounds better. If not, I leave it alone:D
 
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