A long time ago I put quite a lot of time into learning Photoshop. At the time there were several popular bundles of plug-ins which, it occurred to me, seemed to be little more than fancy macros which automated the application of the standard tools available to anyone with the software. Here are five examples:. I use this more than I realise. Add to that the related consolidate clip with slate tone shortcut and this plug in is a must.
Much has been said in the past about the lack of a dedicated polarity invert button in the Pro Tools mixer. Back to MS signal processing and here are five basic concepts about MS processing that will get you up to speed….
MS processing has become routine for many engineers during the mastering stage, but it can really come in handy during mixing too. Trying to do so during mixing will make your head spin! Of course, you can also apply MS processing to individual stereo sources such as sub-busses, stems, synths or loops. Doing so gives you the ability to alter or enhance without affecting the entire mix. Whether you use it in mastering or mixing, MS processing can change the width and depth of a track in a variety of subtle, effective ways:.
Rework the balance between lead vocal and stereo background vocals. Manipulate mono and stereo percussion instruments within a drum loop. Change the apparent front-to-back depth by making ambient elements such as drum overheads or reverb come forward or recede into the mix. Before you begin getting fancy with MS processing — and there are plenty of ways to do so — start with the simplest usage of all: Play with the relative levels of the mid and sides channels.
This simple operation can bring focus and stability to the centre, and excitement to the sides. Boosting the sides channel by just 1 or 2 dB can work wonders in certain situations, giving the track a wider, more open sound while at the same time gently making cymbals, guitars and other elements panned to the left or right become a little more alive.
The vocals tend to sit in the track a little better, too. Conversely, dipping the sides a bit lower or raising the mid-channel a hair will strengthen the track overall by making everything more mono.
This is especially true for the low frequencies, which typically live predominately in the centre, as well as for making the centre or lead vocal more prominent. If you have a track that sounds narrow overall, insert Waves Center, turn down the centre channel a little, then turn up the sides a little.
Instant extra width! If you have a track that is wide and needs some overall tightening and focus of the stereo image, try dipping the sides and up the centre channel to taste. In this video example, you can hear how boosting the sides channel and attenuating the centre instantly adds width to an already-stereo track:. Being able to independently equalize the mid and sides portions of your mix can yield some incredibly cool and useful results.
For example:. Do a frequency sweep to locate the frequencies of the vocals or solo that give them their power, then cut that frequency on the mid-channel of the instrument buss.
You have basically two options. Either internal or with plugin. In first case you can prepare few individual mono AUX tracks with appropriate processing you can isolate sum and difference components via stereo editor at track sends to those AUXes and output to hardware from there.
The first in encode more at send track, the other in decode mode at return recording track. That's IMO simplest way how to do that. Last edited by msmucr; 21st February at AM..
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