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Originally Posted by Neon Heart  I disagree.
check your favourite commercial record with it.
hard panned sounds are at 10 and 3 o'clock on the line of "left" and "right" in the display.
you'll hardly have much information in the anti phase areas (there will be a bit usually but often there is as much as nothing.)
so you say that when there's no information in the "anti-phase" area, the record is mono? complete bullshit. |
No, that's not what I meant. Let's try a different way.
What are the "phase issues" you were talking about?
http://www.waves.com/Manuals/Plugins/PAZ.pdf In these examples, the ears do not hear a disturbing ‘out-of-phase’ sound. For us to hear an out-of-phase sound,
there generally needs to be a consistent opposite polarity over a period of time, which the meter will show.
The Stereo Position Display analysis takes this into account. Still there will be occasional fast spikes in the antiphase
region, and you can ignore them if they are not consistent, especially if you know you are using stereo delay or
similar effects. You might be really bothered if the energy in the out-of-phase region is consistently significant
compared with the energy of the ‘in-phase’ region.
I'm actually only bothered by the utter lack of basic engineering knowledge. The manual is really hard to read without getting angry. The display of decorrelated signals appears to be totally arbitrary. The established terms for these problems are "correlation vs coherency" which Waves doesn't even mention. What are they trying to tell us here? What does "consistently significant" regarding a "measurement tool" mean. Nobody knows what this "tool" actually displays. This tool is BS.