So I haven't been on here in eons bec I've been taking care of my
Disabled Vietnam Veteran ex-foster-father and haven't had time to
get back into mixing. The VA just got some new programs, so now
at least I have some time to myself again.
In case anybody don't remember from that far back, I've been recording
and mixing for 40 years - but only on very basic (radio station/church/school)
multi-track gear without a lot of rack processors/sends and receives etc.
Now I'm back into doing 2/3rds of things in ProTools and their various
Old Fat and Handicapped Poorman's Equivalent you can get these days.
I seem to remember a preset either on the real board (Altec) or else in the
software program someplace where a person could assign a particular track
(e.g. brass) to the effect (I think it was called Inside Out) - to where the result
would sound like two takes of the same brass part blasting away at your ears
with you standing in the middle. Which is why echo/reverb etc would not do.
Obviously, if you just leave it alone, it will either be in the left by itself, the
right by itself or the center by itself.
But if you do a Split Mono (two copies of the same mono track occupying a
stereo file so that you can do things to one side and not the other) and doing
a One Side Invert doesn't cut the mustard either.
The only difference now is - instead of being Front Center, the track in
question is now Surround Center (home-made matrix-encoded).
One of the quadraphonic stereo mfgrs in the 70's - I wanna say one of the
people that farmed out to Hitachi to get theirs made - had a particular
odd matrix decoder that would do just that.
You'd play a mono record through there, switch on this particular strange
matrix (not QS/RM/VM or SQ or Dynaquad or EV-Stereo 4 or Ambisonics
or any of those that you can get in a plugin anyday of the week) and the
mono center track would now be playing the same way - as if you had
two turntables synched up with you in the middle.
The few things I know about this particular matrix and however I can achieve
a similar effect in software - was that it was NOT a comb filter, phase delay,
frequency splitter/EQ or any of the other kinds of normal ordinary ``fake stereo''
effects that have been around for over 60 years - or combinations thereof.
So if anybody knows what this effect is called in modern software (Adobe Audition)
inquiring minds want to know.
Disabled Vietnam Veteran ex-foster-father and haven't had time to
get back into mixing. The VA just got some new programs, so now
at least I have some time to myself again.
In case anybody don't remember from that far back, I've been recording
and mixing for 40 years - but only on very basic (radio station/church/school)
multi-track gear without a lot of rack processors/sends and receives etc.
Now I'm back into doing 2/3rds of things in ProTools and their various
Old Fat and Handicapped Poorman's Equivalent you can get these days.
I seem to remember a preset either on the real board (Altec) or else in the
software program someplace where a person could assign a particular track
(e.g. brass) to the effect (I think it was called Inside Out) - to where the result
would sound like two takes of the same brass part blasting away at your ears
with you standing in the middle. Which is why echo/reverb etc would not do.
Obviously, if you just leave it alone, it will either be in the left by itself, the
right by itself or the center by itself.
But if you do a Split Mono (two copies of the same mono track occupying a
stereo file so that you can do things to one side and not the other) and doing
a One Side Invert doesn't cut the mustard either.
The only difference now is - instead of being Front Center, the track in
question is now Surround Center (home-made matrix-encoded).
One of the quadraphonic stereo mfgrs in the 70's - I wanna say one of the
people that farmed out to Hitachi to get theirs made - had a particular
odd matrix decoder that would do just that.
You'd play a mono record through there, switch on this particular strange
matrix (not QS/RM/VM or SQ or Dynaquad or EV-Stereo 4 or Ambisonics
or any of those that you can get in a plugin anyday of the week) and the
mono center track would now be playing the same way - as if you had
two turntables synched up with you in the middle.
The few things I know about this particular matrix and however I can achieve
a similar effect in software - was that it was NOT a comb filter, phase delay,
frequency splitter/EQ or any of the other kinds of normal ordinary ``fake stereo''
effects that have been around for over 60 years - or combinations thereof.
So if anybody knows what this effect is called in modern software (Adobe Audition)
inquiring minds want to know.
