Mid/Side Recording 101 | The Most Flexible Way to Record in Stereo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2024
- Looking to add some width to your recordings? Mid/side is a time-tested technique for capturing any source in stereo while ensuring mono compatibility and maximum control over your stereo image while mixing. In this video, Brittany Rogers explains the history of this technique, how it works, and how to set it up so you can try it for yourself.
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More videos like this please! About microphones and recordings techniques.
Sounds great, I love and use this technique regularly. Really nice on piano as well, and any situation where one might need to carve out some space in the middle during a mix.
Nice tutorial 👍 I use this technique for making my small room sound bigger with drums! I use this as room mics on the far end of the room from the drums and point the cardioid mic at the wall (about 3-4 feet from the wall, and closer to the ceiling than not, pointed away from the drums). Then slam them with a compressor. Works great!
How/with what microphone was her voice recorded in this video?
It sounds so natural and smooth!
Excellent video and editing! Keep them coming!
Make more Uad native plugins!!! we need the SSL stuff!!! Api560, Culture Vulture, Neve 1084!!!! Please! =)
Brit is the best!!
Would love a video on how to use UAD plugins to emulate a complete analog tape recording and mixing. For example how and where to add preamps, tape, EQs, busses and master track plugins as if to recreate a complete analog tape session. Thank you so much your plugins are great
Just to confirm... the BX Digital v3 plugin is placed on the 'insert' of the 'side microphone' track? Definitely will try m/s with this plugin. The common way to matrix/ decode works great for m/s, but I'd like to try using this plugin!
Remember: the side mic (ambience) in mono will disappear. Because the Side + (L) AND the side - (R) will null in mono. M/S is very cool, but no one ever talks about the side mic disappearing in mono.
M/S is mono-compatible because the two mics both have their own mono signal. The stereo effect is just a phase anomaly that happens when the side mic has a duplicate track with a flipped phase. Your example is like if you just soloed the Mid-mic.
@@teddykent9756 So, if you mute the middle. With the the sides panned +L and -R, then you monitor that in mono, what happens? What happens, also happens with the middle unmuted too. It is just not as noticable. So, the roominess that you had in the M/S stereo becomes a lot dryer when you hit the mono switch. I still like using M/S stereo. However, there are things that you need to be aware of with it. If done right, when you put it in mono, you are now listening to 1 microphone, That is why it is mono compatible. Still a cool method though.
Why do you have to be so awesome???? I like M/S for drum room mics and acoustic guitars. I had a Cascade X-12 Ribbon Mic that was great for that.
If recording in dry environment, is there any benefit to useing this technique?
There is ALWAYS ambiance and depth. Even a "dead" room will have an effect. It's worth a listen, you may be surprised what you get.
@@jergervasi3331 thank you I will
Works wonderfully, vocals sit in mix perfectly. Vocals sound like part of the band. I sent side to two auxs , panned one left and one right, flipped phase on right. Both auxs were prefader so I turned down fader on side track. I had to balance the mid and two hard panned auxs to get my sound. Then I grouped them all added a vocal chain, and listened as the vocal just about mixed it's self into mix. Ignorance is a terrible disability. Thank you UA!!!!!😊
@@markwilson1446 Excellent! Congrats!
Yes more uad native stuff, come on guys, but something really important is, you guys are planing to make your native plugins function with machine activation?? because there are moments that i dont want to be online and of course dont want a usb stick connected. Also, something less important, put a mix knob for the compressor in your channel strips and update your presicion series especially the eq and limiter/maximizer.
A plugin version from the fender deluxe you have in your pedal and the voxac30. Thanks
im hoping the next UAFX pedal will be a hiwatt dr103 in a box
we dont see enough of those!
Cool tutorial! To me it sounded a bit out of phase at end of both examples. Right at the end when the fills came in and the cymbal..?
Did you forget your Sparks ? 😢
Brit rules
Great video.
Are her toes bolted to floor? Her heels keep popping up. I rather see Ben nodding enthusiastic for an hour 😂
Bobble head Ben we called him!! 🤣🤣
@@UniversalAudiohahahah that’s hilarious 😅
👍🏻
@@UniversalAudioYou need to make some Ben Bobbleheads.😅
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAKE A PLUGIN OF THE SHURE LEVEL LOCK!
M/S sounds weird and the side signal disappears when collapsed to mono
Now restart without the cards ;)
PHEW... Thought the comments we're gonna be riddled with: ''Men Of Culture *bottle clink emoji''*
What does that mean?
Always 10 years behind everyone else. Do you even pay attention to modern production techniques? Or have you just had elvis on repeat this whole time? Get your plugins running natively. We dont want your DAW or the Interface or an Apollo or anything else from you. Get your plugins converted over before 2025.
They have native plugins?
And I love my Apollo, what happens in 2025? 😂
Eh, they have native plugins?
@@thegreatdestroyer6506 13 or 17?
@@connorharris1900 33 at the moment. Yes, there a lot more. But I guess your modern production technique requires more.
@@thegreatdestroyer6506 Yes. modern techniques require more than 33 plugins. modern sound, including mine, requires 15+ plugins per mixer insert. ~80-150 mixer inserts plus synths and instruments. thats about 1700 individual “plugin” instances. Besides that fact, i should be able to use the software i paid for without a proprietary hardware unit. its almost 2025 not 1995.