27 May
2008
27 May
'08
4:12 p.m.
Back on Tuesday 27 May 2008, Atte André Jensen was like:
Hi
A question came up on the chuck list today, regarding how to invert the
phase of one channel. The poster wanted to use this "trick" to widen the
width of the stereo image, and it sure does.
NOOOOOOOOOO. This stupid trick is EVIL.
However now I'm thinking if it's a good idea
in the first place. Besides
loosing mono-compatibility, I have a gut feeling that audio treated this
way will become very uncomfortable or even annoying to listen to after a
while.
It is VERY annoying. When listening to it with headphones, the side where the
phase is inverted causes my ear to "itch". It's very annoying and
uncomfortable, and I notice it immediately.
Does anyone have any thought about this? Should this
"trick" simply be
avoided or are there situations where using it on some parts of a mix
would be ok (keeping in mind that the tracks in question will disappear
in mono)?
Avoid this, and shoot anybody who tries to do this. It is annoying on
headphones, and causes all sorts of frequency cancellation problems when
played from stereo speakers.
-Reuben