Mid/Side Explained: Recording and Processing Techniques Demystified 

Had so much fun making this! Thank you :)

EXCELLENT initiation to mid/side recording and processing. Sidenote: The more you learn, the more you learn there's so much more to learn. Be assured, with diligent and determined learning, experimentation and practice, at some point, you reach a level of competency, then MUCH later, mastery. Be sure to do everything you can to keep it fun and light along the way. ... Encouraging words spoken mainly for myself, but hopefully encouraging as well for others at any point and level along their music production journey. IZotope and their many amazing network of music production professions / educators help tremendously! Not to mention the production magic afforded by their superb plugins.

Never thought or heard of mid side processing? What a fantastic video, so clearly presented and full of ways to use this technique! Thank you so much, keep em coming, wonderful

This is the first time am seeing / hearing about M/S "Recording". That's a cool technique, especially inverting one copy. Thanks for this comprehensive explanation. Helped a lot!

Hey iZotope! All these videos you make about using your products are EXTREMELY helpful and appreciated! I own all your plugs and these tutorials ensure I’ll keep coming back to your stuff when it’s time to upgrade.

Thank you for that little bit of detail that i didn't know. Side compression pushes in, Mid compression pushes out.

I love these videos so much. The wealth of knowledge you guys provide beside the killer plugins is mind-blowing

That was informative. Thanks. Love the products.

Your studio looks very comfy :) Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Thank you, it’s really informative.

Very well put together, great video!

I like your M/S compression techniques

Thank you for the detailed explanation 👏👏❤

Wow! She is Great! A little rushed but......Excellent job. Thanks.

very informative, Thanks

I definitely love using m/s recording for vocals with multiple mics (usually 3) of varying types and character, with two panned to various degrees and one to hold center. And since all of the mics differ in their frequency responses, there is much less risk of phase cancellation, but if so, then a simple phase flip takes care of the problem.

Thanks for this iZotope! 🙌

Such a great video ❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥 Can we please talk about 1. What happens with the phase at the point where the frequencies (BANDS) split - if it was just EQ. Also, what happens with the phase in general when I EQ: Let's say I turn down the lows drastically. Do I ruin the phase? And then 2. What happens around those points (between the bands) if I use Multi-Band compression in MS mode. Thank you! 🙏🏼

Off label usage: I am a percussionist who does a fair amount of track sweetening work. Mid-side can be a very helpful recording technique for the vibraphone. While a spaced pair is a more normal way to record the instrument, some engineers/producers that I have offered tracks to in the past like to not have the instrument sound so wide in their mix (for instance, a scale from bottom to top of the instrument will run from left to right on the sound stage quite dramatically and in a way not really cool for a background layer... draws too much attention). But if you fold a spaced pair to mono, the phase cancellation can make the instrument sound dull. If I know that is how the tracks I am being asked to offer may be used, I sometimes record them in mid-side to avoid that issue. I create a stereo mix from that which is as wide as I like to hear the instrument and deliver that; if they fold it in to make it narrower there is less harm to the sheen.

Great video 👍🏽

Very interesting 🙏

Great vídeo!

Best thing about the topic: when you just realize that you're already using Ozone 10 ;-) Great video!

Thanks

Genius!

dear frined...your explain is wonderful....i have aquestions, my recording DAW ALWAYS High gain record, tell what is perfect recording db level in headroom, i hope you exact sugestion me, GOD Bless you

I didnt know izotope were native instruments... I also dont know why im telling everyone this 😁 great video thanks for sharing 👍

I'd never actually thought of phase cancellation as a tool I could use, just something I should be wary of when mixing

"reducing the width of the low end" using mid/side processing, a technique commonly employed by mastering engineers when mastering for vinyl

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Whos is this beauty?

Song name?

Never heard it called figure OF 8... only heard it as figure 8. :)

This is GREAT, but please stop using the term “phase,” when what we’re talking about it POLARITY. Phase is time dependent, polarity is not. Phase cannot be reversed- it is a time offset between signals. We COULD delay one signal so that it’s 180deg. out of phase with its partner- but that’s not what’s happening here. We’re flipping the POLARITY of one signal relative to its partner- reversing the +/- . That’s time independent. Sorry to be pedantic, but misuse of this terminology is a huge pet peeve of mine.

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I should listen to what she's is saying .

Yeah M/S is great for un- gluing the mix and making it amateur again. Because why not end there, perfection is boring, haha.

With all due respect she is extremely beautiful and distracts me, but about what all I could understand this is great tutorial.

This is an advert, not an ‘explanation’. Shame, cos it’s an interesting subject and could have been dealt with more clearly.

That was way too fast-paced for me. All you're doing is demonstrating it. You understand your own explanation but I don't. I'm sure someone who already has an idea of what this is used for wouldn't have a problem following how quikcly you power through this concept but I sure can't. I'm completely new to the idea. Moving on, gotta find a better explanation. Thanks for trying to help. If I understand it more I may come back to listen again to what you've presented here.

Nice! (Backround tune while talking is annoying and distracting. )

High pass that track please

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It would be better if you will stop moving your hands and sharp fingers in the screen, because it's distracting and tiring.

Great video, thanks! One little quibble though, i think you mean to 'home in' and not to 'hone in'. To hone is to polish or refine, to 'home' in comes from 'homing pigeons' returning home and has come to mean to focus in on a particular 'thing'. Great vid apart from that :D