Finally, someone who has a clue about one of the most misunderstood, ignored and downplayed issues in audio. What a delight to watch a video by someone who just wants to explain a topic correctly without hype, etc. Bill P . Studio 'A' ultralinear
Man Joey, I grew up in in Ohio at a time where everyone I knew was trying to get the right guys together to be the next Joey Sturgis-produced band. You were a legend already and just a few years older than us - it's absolutely insane to think about. We all went from punk rock kids to whatevercore kids because of your influence. It's such a treat stumbling across this channel as a 35 yr old dad hobbying around with today's technology and I can't wait to watch the How Joey Saved Rock and Roll documentary when we're old as shit. Thank you for this channel and all of the memories.
It's crazy how good these videos are compared to how few views they have. This channel deserves way more attention. Whoever is editing is a real champ!
Hey Joey, your video editor is absolutely fantastic. I can only image how much work putting all that together is. The video editing is a perfect combo with all that info. It wasn't distracting, it kept me engaged with the content and entertained the whole time. The video editor needs to hear a thank you and what a great job!
You can also use phase shift creatively. You can intentionally move multi miced tracks out of phase, to achieve a unique tonality. The strongest phase relationship is not always the best choice.
Also if you're in charge of recording, you can use phase as an acoustic tool by mic placement. For example in the Fredman mic technique for recording guitar cabs with two 57s, the mics are supposed to be placed at slightly different distances from the cab, so when you mix their signals together, they'll be out of phase just enough to give the top end a certain sound.
Before trying to understand phase for waves, it should first be understood for signals. In the above, the phase issues are coming primarily from actual delays, but phase is more general, and come from other aspects of systems also.
Phase makes sense up to about 200Hz. Above that with timbral signals (music instruments\voices) it is IMPOSSIBLE to keep all signals in phase. Thus phase correlation regards low freq. signals - kick body, low bass synths\guitars, any other low freq. signals. Explanations with sine waves do not make sense with real timbral sounds.
waiting for that advanced phase walkthrough where you go through a phase issue with instruments with completely different timbres and textures that are playing different parts that have phase issues in a particular frequency area from overlap frequencies cancelling each other out or similar waveforms in certain frequency areas that us average engineers never would have spotted
I wonder if Joey will cover the relationship between phase and pan. I recently made significant improvements to my guitar tone by panning the individual mic tracks in accordance with how I pan the bus that each mic goes to. I’m working with dual-mic’d guitars, so every guitar track is a bus comprised of two mic tracks. I used to just pan the bus track, one hard left and the other hard right for the double-track effect - and I would leave the pan of each mic track neutral at center. But i was never satisfied with my tone, it sounded kinda thin and cheap despite having some low end. But now that I pan each individual mic track in accordance with how their bus is panned, the tone sounds more full and complete, like it has new body and solidity to it. I don’t do any processing on the individual mic tracks, I process all 4 mics (2 mic pairs, one left and one right, each pair summed as a left and right guitar bus) together on the final rhythm guitar bus (panned center). I’ve noticed i need to do this type of panning for guitars that are not double-tracked as well - the tone improves when I pan each individual mic in accordance with the panning of the bus that each mic is summed to. Is this normal and I’ve just been ignorant this whole time, or is this strange? The diminished tone from the improper panning I described sounds to me like it’s phase-related, but I could be wrong. I use reaper so they’re “folders”. Curious if anyone else knows what I’m talking about; and what might be some other pan-related phase issues I should watch out for?
Can someone explain why rendering the same project in daw twice and then putting both files to new project in daw again and changing phase of one of audio files i still have a difference? Does it mean that some vst plugins that i've used on original project have non-deterministic output?
