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Originally Posted by Darius van H  Something is very wrong here.
To all but the most cloth-eared, a good mix should sound like ass when you flip one side. |
Hi all, this is a current , but not identical issue for me- any advice?
On checking the phase of the X/Y configured drum overheads, positioned about 60cm directly above the drummers head, (SM58's,not ideal), there was a huge difference in "position" of one of the OH when out of phase- even when all the other drum mics where sounding in correct phase. The sound seemed to migrate to behind my head, giving a sort of surround type effect. I thought it sounded cool, in a way, as I was trying to widen the stereo field, so I put a phase scope on the drum group to see what it said, sure enough,wider stereo when one OH out of phase, but when all the tracks are up, and the phase scope is last on the master bus, there is no noticable difference on the phasescope, and I am not sure if I can hear any difference in the full mix when a/b the phase of 1 OH.
So, not wanting to "mix with my eyes", I have 2 questions, 1, will this comb filtering?? effect (if it is that) store up unexpected nasties for me later in the mix if I keep it? and 2, how wide should the plot on the phasescope be for drum group, and master bus. At the moment, with both OH in phase, the drums are very mono, ie vertical plot, even with max panning, and its not so different on the master bus. Many thanks, Mick