Winston OBoogie
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Tubetec said:For me the mono mix wins , even though the stereo mix has the width , it seems to lack depth to my ears.
I think so too.
Nice example, thanks.
Tubetec said:For me the mono mix wins , even though the stereo mix has the width , it seems to lack depth to my ears.
Winston O'Boogie said:Hey, thanks for posting the link Weiss, I wasn't aware of Greg's 'after hours' vids. and I like what I've watched so far.
As a dude, I can already vouch for Greg - he did a bang up job with a plug-in of a hardware unit I put together for Hugo Nicolson and I still receive a small stipend royalty from Kush c/o Hugo.
I think the LCR video made a lot of sense personally and it's something I stumbled on myself (alternately muting each side) when I was more involved in that stuff.
As for the mono mixing video, I also get what he's saying there. It isn't about setting level balances which, more often than not, I found needed a bit of a rebalance after spreading into a stereo image. But what I got is that he was looking at conflicting or overlapped frequency ranges of parts and carving out with eq etc to seperate them. I can see how this would be useful. It would also be useful when coming up with parts as it could more easily show where it might be beneficial to use a different inversion or voicing etc.
Within reason, I don't see any point in worrying about absolute mono compatibility these days. Sure, a lot of stuff might get played on an iPhone without headphones by some but, are we really wanting to conform downwards to the lowest common denominator?
iomegaman said:"House of Kush" is one of my latest discoveries and purchases...his plugins are really stellar and he just released a new compressor called "Silka" which is definitely a nice tool especially in vox.
iomegaman said:As far as mixing "mono-vs-stereo" I cannot seem to dislodge the master George Martin as someone who mixed primarily in mono and made some rather decent records doing it.
iomegaman said:As far as mixing "mono-vs-stereo" I cannot seem to dislodge the master George Martin as someone who mixed primarily in mono and made some rather decent records doing it.
Whoops said:Yes he did and it made sense,
50 years ago...
Winston O'Boogie said:Yep I get it. Whatever works at the end of the day.
Tubetec said:Do they teach people about the 5:1 distance rule with microphones anymore ?
Tubetec said:A co-incident pair of crossed figure 8's as OH on drums I also like ,
Tubetec said:Sorry , 3:1 was what I meant or course :-[
I mix a lot on a Wohler 1RU broadcast monitor with 1” speakers, it’s stereo but when it’s 3 feet away to one side it’s effectively mono. All the best decisions are made on that, the fine details on larger monitors.
I prefer that one to feed my subs...Some dedicated sound reinforcement consoles just have a third "mono" output jack instead of a mono switch.
I have been doing this for more than 25 years:
I put all sound sources in position in the stereo image.
Then I switch to mono and make a balance.
If the balance is good in mono, I switch to stereo and most of the time the balance is good in stereo too.
I have a very specific example of the benefits of listening in mono.Also there's nothing that I can use from changing my playback to mono that can help my stereo mixes.
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