[John[_42_]]

Hi Everyone;

I have a live recording I need to mix to CD for a friend. The band had the
sound guy position two SDC's in ORTF in the FOH booth facing the middle of
the stage. So I began with panning each channel hard left and right and
everything seems to be cool. The bass however (bass guitar and kick drum)
seem to be cancelling each other (not terribly, but noticeably). If I
center each of the left and right signals I get better bass response but
loose the stereo space in the highs and mids (which I am happy with). Is
there something I can do to boost the bass in this mix (get it more
centered) while leaving the rest of the stereo mix intact? I have some
standard plugins for my computer.

Sorry if this is a newbie question, I am pretty new to mixing stereo
recorded stuff.

Thanks;
John

[Scott Dorsey]

I have a live recording I need to mix to CD for a friend. The band had the
sound guy position two SDC's in ORTF in the FOH booth facing the middle of
the stage. So I began with panning each channel hard left and right and
everything seems to be cool. The bass however (bass guitar and kick drum)
seem to be cancelling each other (not terribly, but noticeably). If I
center each of the left and right signals I get better bass response but
loose the stereo space in the highs and mids (which I am happy with). Is
there something I can do to boost the bass in this mix (get it more
centered) while leaving the rest of the stereo mix intact? I have some
standard plugins for my computer.

Maybe. The first question is whether you can get what you want with EQ.

The second question is whether you can roll off one channel below, say,
200 Hz, then take the first channel, roll off everything above 200 Hz,
and sum it into the first channel. This basically eliminates all your
phasing issues by turning all the low end into mono.

But if it really WAS done ORTF, the bass phasing issues should be minimal
and I'd start with EQ before doing anything.

Sorry if this is a newbie question, I am pretty new to mixing stereo
recorded stuff.

Close your eyes and listen. Use the EQ to change tone, use multband
compression to change dynamics in particular frequency ranges, use
stereo filtering (processing L-R and L+R seperately like I describe above)
to alter imaging.
--scott
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