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Originally posted by soulpressing:
Any of you guys know how to widen up a mono recording by using a reverse phase trick?

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Originally posted by Studiodawg:
here's an example, if you put a mic on top of a snare (pointing down) and you mic from beneath the snare (pointing up), when you strike the snare, you have sound moving up to the top mic and down to the bottom mic...one "trick" that can make the snare sound better/different is to reverse the phase of either the top or bottom mic/track and hear if this appeals to your ear.

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Originally posted by dirtyragamuffin:

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Originally posted by soulpressing:
Any of you guys know how to widen up a mono recording by using a reverse phase trick?

I've succcessfully used the technique Dot described on page 1 after copying a mono track to a second track.

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Originally posted by soulpressing:
Any of you guys know how to widen up a mono recording by using a reverse phase trick?

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Originally posted by Omni-Mind:
Eddies may also want to look into the wall of sound technique.

Here's a neet little trick to get a killer Kick sound, takes a little work, but I have found that lazy enj's are never really that good^^

Ok, record your kick, Do it nicely, DONT EQ in, just pre it up and get a good clean sound. If you mix on a console you can always eq on the out. (Unless you use some duel eq trick i have never heard of, in that case tell me) This works for both in and out micing, or just port micing on your kit btw. ( If you use in and out Apply the next bit of information on your outside mic track.)

Ok you have recorded a killer kick but it just does not have that cool sub boom to it. get an extra power monitor ( everone has one of these right? yeah me either so i just use one of mine) take a 16 inch floor tom and lay it on its side. place the monitor on one side of the Floor tom and the same kick mic you used before on the other side. re record to a 2nd track through the floor tom. (Keep your original)

blend the 2 for a killer kick, If for some reason you are short for tracks its ok to get a good mix and dump these down to a single track.

Ill make a text illustration

Monitor > [FloorTom] > O microphone

Re-Micing has been around awhile but so has alot of things some people have never heard of, One person being myself thats why I cant name any.

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Originally posted by Dot:
Vocal with acoustic guitar

This is a technique for someone who wants to sing and play acoustic guitar at the same time.

Set up the vocal cardioid mic at the height of the singer's mouth about 9" away – give or take a few ".

Put a second cardioid mic down past the bridge - out about 1' or so away from the guitar. And angle the mic at 45 degrees so it's facing the bridge of the guitar.

Set levels and make you're recording.

Then, at mixdown, take the track that used the mic to record the guitar at the bridge, and pan it hard right and reverse the phase. And the track with the vocal should be panned dead center. What will happen is that the guitar track [ while being played with the vocal track on ] will suddenly spread to both speakers and "back up" a bit in the mix – and any of the "boominess" will be gone due to the phase cancellation with the vocal mic. And the track with the vocal will have more room and sit in this nice hole created in the center.

Very effective, and can give a nice, polished sound.