Work over Talent
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Mixing 180 or 360 ? Instead of left to right why dont plugins allow you to put instrument front to back also ?
Is Mixing 180 or 360 ?
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krushing
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Well, unless you're working with a surround system that actually has speakers at the front and back, it's a much trickier affair to simulate "front" and "back" with just two speakers. It's possible, to some extent and there are plugins that allow placing sounds in a space (although often just "close up front" and "further away" rather than front and back) - and there are some stereo tricks that can make a sound sound like it's "spinning" around you...but well, you get the idea. It's not very easy.
Ametrine
Audible Chocolate
If you gain a handle on the use of "chorus", you can sort of determine which sounds will be up front and which will be in the back. The more voices you give a synth, the more it will move towards the "back" of a track.
Also, lower frequencies tend to sit in the back while higher frequencies tend to come to the front a lot more. It can all be manipulated based on what you think deserves more focus at a particular point in a track.
Also, lower frequencies tend to sit in the back while higher frequencies tend to come to the front a lot more. It can all be manipulated based on what you think deserves more focus at a particular point in a track.
bandcoach
Zukatoku - Mod Scientist
I don't think that either of those will stand the truth test
moving things forward or back in the mix is a case of boosting (forward) or cutting (backward) @ roughly 2kHz and 4kHz - this tends to be the presence effect. If you think about it for a moment the further away a sound is the lower the high frequency content of that sound, mostly because the energy in the higher frequencies is dissipated before it can reach our ears: the laws of physics and wavelengths at work.
So your statement may be true if it were about a single low frequency sine wave sound, but once we add in its overtone profile (a complex waveform is what we usually hear in real life) it starts to fail the truth test.
as for multiple voices on the same line it tends to bring the line out, highlighting it rather than sending it backwards - this is the whole point of choirs and sections playing the same note - to thicken,and sweeten the sound and at the same time make the width of the sound greater than single voice can do - it tends to pull the sound forward (unless filtered)
moving things forward or back in the mix is a case of boosting (forward) or cutting (backward) @ roughly 2kHz and 4kHz - this tends to be the presence effect. If you think about it for a moment the further away a sound is the lower the high frequency content of that sound, mostly because the energy in the higher frequencies is dissipated before it can reach our ears: the laws of physics and wavelengths at work.
So your statement may be true if it were about a single low frequency sine wave sound, but once we add in its overtone profile (a complex waveform is what we usually hear in real life) it starts to fail the truth test.
as for multiple voices on the same line it tends to bring the line out, highlighting it rather than sending it backwards - this is the whole point of choirs and sections playing the same note - to thicken,and sweeten the sound and at the same time make the width of the sound greater than single voice can do - it tends to pull the sound forward (unless filtered)
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