Stereoing mxl 603's

[caleb2438]

Hello I just bought a pair of matched 603's and I was wondering how to record in stereo? Do I pan one hard left and one hard right or what?

 

[Bob Keelan]

what sounds best to you?

 

[baekgaard]

Yep, pan them hard left and right.

Then work on placing them correctly.

You can find more info on how to do that for instance here: http://www.dpamicrophones.com/eng_pub/MicUni/131.html

Rgds,


-- Per.

 

[tdukex]

Work on placing them correctly first. It will depend on what instrument you are micing. Then experiment with panning. Hard left and right is not always best, depending on the number of tracks and other instruments in the mix.

 

[DJL]

Hello I just bought a pair of matched 603's and I was wondering how to record in stereo? Do I pan one hard left and one hard right or what?

Yeah, if your X/Ying the mic's... pan the left one hard left and the other hard right.

 

[chessrock]

What you want to do is pan one up and one down.

Forget all that left-right crap.

 

[CanopuS]

Why can't we have ears on the top of our head and below our chin, that way we'd get a REAL 3d picture. Anyone want to sign a petition to get more ears for humanity?

 

[Armistice]

Be bummer on a rainy day with an ear on top of your head.

 

[Tornadobass]

Why is it that hard left/right sounds almost the same as both centered?

 

[littledog]

Why is it that hard left/right sounds almost the same as both centered?

Ear wax?

 

[mallcore pop]

Single-speaker setup?

 

[mallcore pop]

Single-speaker setup?

 

[DJL]

Why is it that hard left/right sounds almost the same as both centered?

When X/ying... if the source signal is reaching both mic's at the same time with the same waves (when in the center), it sounds centered.

 

[Blue Bear Sound]

Why is it that hard left/right sounds almost the same as both centered?

Mono switch is on?

 

[littledog]

When X/ying... if the source signal is reaching both mic's at the same time with the same waves (when in the center), it sounds centered.

He didn't say "sounds centered". He said sounds the same as mono. That would only happen if the sounds were reaching the mics at exactly the same time in an anechoic chamber.

 

[DJL]

Maybe it's close enough to his ear for him to call it "same as mono"? By-the-way... X/Y recordings (when done right) can sound pretty good when listening back to them in mono too.

 

[Innovations]

Well, what are you recording? Stereo recording works because you are recording something large, like a choir or a piano. If you are recording something small, like a harmonica, you aren't going to get any stereo imaging out of it.

Also how are you pointing your mics? If they are at the same point and both pointing straight ahead then even if they are recording something big they are getting the same image of it. You either need to spread them out (spaced pair) or point them in different directions (coincident pair).

 

[mrface2112]

<<Why is it that hard left/right sounds almost the same as both centered?>>

maybe you're monitoring with headphones instead of monitors? fundamentally, there's a BIG difference in sound between hard L/R and straight up.

could also be that you just don't have any real stereo image there to speak of.


wade