Mid-Side. What the hell is it?

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Re: Mid-Side. What the hell is it?

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Lost to the Void wrote:It's really simple, what you are doing separating the stereo only part of the signal, from the mono only part.

Stereo imaging is all about phase difference with a signal.

What this means impractical terms, for example using the Ableton Eq8 in mid/side mode, is...

Lets say you have a big, fuck off pad, which a high note count chord, a real thick sound, loads of stereo.
Now your mix is lacking punch and clarity in the drums once the pad comes in, but you don't want to have to too sliced up in the low mids and lows, you want to have just this one massive chord pad and big drums, proper warehouse vibe.

So what you can do is use your eq8 on mid/side, put it over the pad, go to the mid(mono) section and Eq out the lows, reduce the overall mid level as well, and maybe take a little top end out to give the hats room.
Then take just a a little of the real lows off the side, and there you have it,mother drums can sit all big and nasty in the mono, and the pad sits either side, with good low mid presence,mwithout conflicting with the low (hopefully mono) end bass and kicks.
I've never understood the whole mid/side thing until I read this post. Nice one Void! :D


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