Having fun mastering a recording with SDAs as monitors
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Rex81
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I was just thinking it would be pretty cool to sit in front of some SDAs with a mixer board and a pre-mastered recording and play around with the left/right balance of individual instruments on separate tracks in real time. Seems to me if you had, say, 7 instruments on 7 different tracks you could develop some very precise imaging across the entire soundstage (which with SDAs in some listening spaces could be 20+ feet wide.)
For instance:
Instrument 1: Left channel 100%, Right channel 0%
Instrument 2: L 83.5%, R 16.5%
Instrument 3: L 66.5%, R 33.5%
Instrument 4 : L 50%, R 50%
Instrument 5 : L 33.5%, R 66.5%
Instrument 6 : L 16.5%, R 83.5%
Instrument 7 : L 0%, R 100%
Or it seems like it would be cool to just pan certain instruments left and right just for fun to see what the SDAs do with it. Anybody with a multi-track mixer do this with their SDAs?
Full disclosure: I thought of this while under the influence of… certain substances, and my knowledge of recording/mastering is limited. Maybe this wouldn’t even work.
For instance:
Instrument 1: Left channel 100%, Right channel 0%
Instrument 2: L 83.5%, R 16.5%
Instrument 3: L 66.5%, R 33.5%
Instrument 4 : L 50%, R 50%
Instrument 5 : L 33.5%, R 66.5%
Instrument 6 : L 16.5%, R 83.5%
Instrument 7 : L 0%, R 100%
Or it seems like it would be cool to just pan certain instruments left and right just for fun to see what the SDAs do with it. Anybody with a multi-track mixer do this with their SDAs?
Full disclosure: I thought of this while under the influence of… certain substances, and my knowledge of recording/mastering is limited. Maybe this wouldn’t even work.
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^^ This is a great idea (having some experience in recording and live sound)! and I'll definitely give it a shot as soon as I get my SDA CRSs up and running. (And Purchase the necessary gear to preform these actions). Here we go further down that rabbit hole!2ch rig:Speakers: LSi9s with VR3's Fortress modsPreamplifier: Parasound P5Amplifier: Parasound A23CDP: Pioneer DV-563ACables: Wireworld Equinox 7 XLR ICs, Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 USB, AudioQuest Q2s, AudioQuest NRG X(preamp)
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afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
@Nightfall , I'm currently at work
2ch rig:Speakers: LSi9s with VR3's Fortress modsPreamplifier: Parasound P5Amplifier: Parasound A23CDP: Pioneer DV-563ACables: Wireworld Equinox 7 XLR ICs, Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 USB, AudioQuest Q2s, AudioQuest NRG X(preamp) -
Sorry, not you. Rex81
Full disclosure: I thought of this while under the influence of… certain substancesafterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
Village Idiot of Club Polk -
Sorry, not you. Rex81Full disclosure: I thought of this while under the influence of… certain substances
Hey, I didn't say which substances... could've been green tea.
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^^ This is a great idea (having some experience in recording and live sound)! and I'll definitely give it a shot as soon as I get my SDA CRSs up and running. (And Purchase the necessary gear to preform these actions). Here we go further down that rabbit hole!
Let us know how it turns out! -
Let us know how it turns out!
Copy that. It'll be a while. If I had to guess it'll probably be after spring next year before I get that gear. I'm Going to listen the CRSs in stock form for a while. In the mean time I'll be shifting my focus on modding my ride till then.
Are you using PC based recording programs or MAC.. . Apple?2ch rig:Speakers: LSi9s with VR3's Fortress modsPreamplifier: Parasound P5Amplifier: Parasound A23CDP: Pioneer DV-563ACables: Wireworld Equinox 7 XLR ICs, Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 USB, AudioQuest Q2s, AudioQuest NRG X(preamp) -
Let us know how it turns out!
Copy that. It'll be a while. If I had to guess it'll probably be after spring next year before I get that gear. I'm Going to listen the CRSs in stock form for a while. In the mean time I'll be shifting my focus on modding my ride till then.
Are you using PC based recording programs or MAC.. . Apple?
That's cool. It's just something I was curious about.
I'm not doing any recording or mastering. I just listen. That's why I was wondering if anyone else had done it. -
I hope you brought enough of that substance for everyone....
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^^ I know right! I love a nice hot glass of green tea when I'm listening to the stereo rig.2ch rig:Speakers: LSi9s with VR3's Fortress modsPreamplifier: Parasound P5Amplifier: Parasound A23CDP: Pioneer DV-563ACables: Wireworld Equinox 7 XLR ICs, Wireworld Ultraviolet 7 USB, AudioQuest Q2s, AudioQuest NRG X(preamp)
