[Mike Rivers]

On Feb 18, 10:24 pm, "Nate Najar" wrote:

Both mics into my
millennia hv3. go to 3 tracks of PT. schoeps into one track and the
414 goes to 2 tracks. Pan the 414 tracks hard left and right and
reverse the polarity of one of the tracks.

Sounds right doesn't it? well... if you listen to the 414 tracks by
themselves the left and right meters are equal. The schoeps track
soloed also obviously brings the meters equal. But you combine them
and there's some sort of phase cancellation- reduces the level of one
of the sides.

Well, that's the way that stereo works. There's some phase
cancellation and it's not symmetrical in the room.

You might want to verify that you don't have a gain change in one
channel of the side mic. Pan both the inverted and non-inverted track
to the same side (or to the exact center) and see how well they
cancel. It should be perfect. But I suppose since DAWs aren't perfect,
there could be a sample or few offset between the two tracks since
they were recorded "simultaneously" (or so you thought).

If you don't get perfect cancellation, try using just one recorded
track, copy it to another track in the same position, and invert one.
That should be perfectly in phase.