| oh boy, i remember getting a call about 8 or 9 years ago from the exec. prod. of a record i did. he was driving in his car and the song was on the radio. problem was, all you could hear of one of the guitars was the reverb. Duh! i had mic'd a pair of matchless amps with 87s ( yes, in my BEDROOM!). everyone was so thrilled at how great it sounded- how WIDE the stereo electric was and how the acoustic, also stereo but panned in at 10 and 2 sat so well inside the electric. lush and deep. problem was that the electric was indeed partially out of phase. when i went back to remix them (just as a pitiful gesture on my part- the record was already out) i could never match the beauty of those original out of phase mixes.
So there you have it. out of phase can SOUND huge, but you may well pay for it down the road. funny, i never got hired by that guy again...
david |