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Thanks for watching! Looking forward to hearing what you come up with! 😊

Thanks for watching! Gated reverb is usually best for mixing against tracks with a lot of sharp transients like drums. It can also be used for creative effects such as Phil Collins' trademark drum sound. It needs those transients to act as the trigger for the gate, so for music like ambient, with minimal transients, it often has difficulty working smoothly - which is why I prefer just to use static processing like EQ.

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@@holosuitemastering FIGHTING MUD AND PHASING WITH PADS! Absolutely this! So many great pads enterwine and mix at different levels

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Please do! I'd love to hear it

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Thanks for the support and feedback! Yes it's something I've been battling with - there's a fine line between making things more obvious and misleading the audience (using volume increases in the "after" to make things sound better when they're objectively no different, etc). It's definitely something I'll be thinking about moving forward!✌

There are three possible answers here: 1. Mono compatibility is not a hard and fast rule by any means, and different people have different tolerances for what's acceptable. There's no arguing that wide "sounds better", it's just a case of how far you're willing to push it before you start to get diminishing returns 2. There are plenty of ways to reduce the chance of phase cancellation in a wide stereo instrument - some instruments allow you to automate settings differently between left and right, and of course there are plenty of ways to treat the left and right channels of stereo instruments separately. 3. An instrument that is phasing by itself might not end up causing a whole mix to phase. I often surprise myself when I solo an instrument in an otherwise mono compatible mix, only to find out that the instrument is quite phasey by itself. But it's only the mix that matters, because that's what the end user hears!

Haha you win the prize for being the first person to point it out! My hair was getting pretty ratty and unmanageable, and summer is just starting in Australia so I was like f*** it, it's all coming off! Very happy with my decision. Thanks so much for the support!

@@holosuitemastering The support is mutual with your cool ambient content.

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I have, and mentioned it in my previous video!

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@@Level32Studio Thanks so much for the support! I only mentioned it briefly, so I'm sure it was easy to miss. But yeah it's an awesome plugin for when I really want to get granular about fixing phase issues 😁

Thanks for watching! Yes adding a delay will possibly cause phase issues again, although it's certainly worth a try. This wonderful video by Dan Worrall explains some ways you can use delays to make things sound wider without causing phase issues th-cam.com/video/uZ9WQDojQt8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=YkyJzm6b38giSNah

@@holosuitemastering Outstanding! Thanks

Thanks for watching! Don't beat yourself up though - I imagine horrible TH-cam downsampling doesn't help detecting those small differences...

@@holosuitemastering You're right! YT decimates our audio!

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Best ambient band of all time! 😋

You're most welcome! Thanks for watching!

Definitely! I need to remind myself sometimes too 😅

@@holosuitemastering Im not sure how to do this in Bitwig?

@@robmlisanti Thanks for watching! Try using the "Tool" device on the master bus and turning the width to 0% 😁

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@buskertv7138 Glad it's of some help! I'm not sure how well that would work as a general template because it relies on knowing when, and what, you want to change the tempo/time signature to! But if you're struggling programming it in yourself and need some help, you could drop me a line through my website and I could arrange a quote for a custom template for you holosuitemastering.com/#let-s-chat

Hey @emretenker, there could be a number of factors at play - it would definitely help if I could hear (and perhaps see) your mix! Please fill in my contact form and I'd be happy to talk in more detail, so I help you troubleshoot holosuitemastering.com/#let-s-chat

Interesting, this is something I've not thought about in detail - but certainly on paper it makes sense. Collapsing a stereo track to mono _should_ make any phase issues permanent. It does make me wonder whether the mono buttons on plugins such as Ableton's utility compensate for that - seems like they should, but I've never actually tested it out! I shall tinker around in the studio and see what I can put together 😊

One argument is that if you bake it in and still get things sounding the way you want, at least you won't get any surprises when played back on different systems. I just did some testing with the Ableton Utility plugin, and it doesn't seem to do anything surprising. It does in fact bake in the phase cancellation when you use the Mono or Bass Mono buttons. You can try it yourself by putting an Operator with a 100 Hz sawtooth drone through Utility, then hit the phase invert switch on one channel so you get perfect cancellation. If you listen through headphones, you can still hear it, but if you put a Spectrum after in L+R mode, you won't see any signal. Then hit the Bass Mono switch in the Utility and the fundamental just disappears.

@timmarcusmoore nice one! I did fudge around with a few Reese bass samples and Utility in Ableton the other day, and while they did end up with some volume dips where phasing occurred, it was much of a muchness really. What I found more interesting was listening to what happens when you compare a wide phasey stereo reverb vs that same reverb narrowed vs two mono versions of the same reverb vs two stereo versions of the same reverb that have been mono'd using Utility - each sounds subtly different. Still deciding whether it's interesting enough to turn into a video. What do you think?

@@holosuitemastering sounds interesting to me

@@timmarcusmoore Phew good cos I went ahead and made that my next video 😋

That's pretty sucky that Splice includes samples that have phase issues by default....how unprofessional! 😮

@@holosuitemastering Oh man, I go through a lot of old 90s CDs and the same thing happens with those. For some reason, it seems like audio guys don't always check the DC offset lol To be fair neither do I

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That's something I haven't run into before! I assume this is for a stereo instrument? I guess the easiest way to fix it would be to run two versions of the same instrument, both in mono with slightly different PWM speeds, and pan them left and right - that way they would have a lower chance of lining up and causing cancellation (and on paper it shouldn't sound that much different from the stereo).

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I was watching a Dan Worrall video the other day, and he reminded me that a lot of Bluetooth speakers are in mono - so I wouldn't be surprised if some people are listening to ambient without realising it's in mono! Plus anyone listening on any speaker setup where they're not perfectly in the middle is not really listening in stereo 🤔 Now that I am monitoring my phase regularly when making music, I haven't had any issues - except when I've been going back trying to remaster my old tracks, ouch 😅

@@holosuitemastering Yes, I hear you. True that. Over the years I have just destroyed so many pads by making them mono'ish. I mean, all the other instruments are fine for me and I get them to sound good in the mono mix. But pads? It's still a struggle. It always seems to be a compromise. I try to save some money so that I can get one of your feedback offerings. Maybe we know more afterwards, haha. Thanks for the cool ambient content by the way. See you!

Thanks so much for your support! I find the key with pads is just to record two mono ones, rather than a stereo one, and then pan them. Also allows me to play with settings to get a bit of contrast, makes the mix more fun.

@@holosuitemastering have you seen the taches teaches video how he makes ambient with bitwig, beginning with a 10 layer pad? At the moment I try to get this mono-ish. maybe interesting for you as well? Just a tip for long, nice winter nights.

I haven't, I will check it out - thanks for the recommend! I'm in Australia so it's nearly summer here haha

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@@holosuitemastering I went to apply this today on a mix I'm working on and it has been so useful. Cheers :)

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Thanks so much for watching! Haha yes brevity is the soul of wit 😊

@@holosuitemastering Absolutely agreed! +Sub 😁🤍

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Indeed, although would we not consider that to be a separate genre, given that it has its own title? Or a sub-genre perhaps?

Glad I could help! Let me know how it goes! 😊

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