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XY-MS what happened to the room ambience?
I recently recorded a 24-voice acapella group performing in a great-
sounding church. When I make a recording like this, I set up early and record a minute or two of "the room" before anybody's there. I've used that a bit to eliminate low-freq rumbles from HVAC and the like, but this recent performance didn't have any of that. There -was- a low-freq "room sound" (sorry I cannot characterize that better). It wasn't hvac or ac hum; it sounded like stepping into a spacious, empty room. I've experienced that ambient background many places where I've made recordings. For fun, I used an Audition plugin to convert the X-Y recording to M-S because I wanted to see what the effect of "more S and less M" would do to spread out the image. The result was very pleasing if I didn't push it very hard. But I noticed something I can't explain: the M-S rendition had much less of "the room" ambience than the X-Y recording. The vocals didn't sound different except for being spread out some. I actually liked the fact that silences during the performance were really silent compared to X-Y. What accounts for this or am I hearing things? (or not) |
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