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Default MS miking help needed

On Feb 19, 9:05 am, "Mike Rivers" wrote:
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.


Thanks for the answers! Mike I do get perfect cancellation so the
side mic is ok. What surprised me is if you listen to the M mic by
itself the signal's centered and t s mic by itself is centered but
together I get a bump on one side. It must be as scott suggested that
i'm just getting more sound from one side than another. I've got the
array pointed near where the neck meets the body and about 12 inches
out. So I suppose the soundhole side is probably giving more signal
now that I think about it. I'll have to work more on placement.

Nate