All true, as Walt says. I use a plug in myself for MS decoding.
However, I do find it educational to understand what the MS decoder
is doing. I also like to know that I don't need any kind of special
tool to work with MS; a regular mixing console will do the trick.
-j
>From: Jeremiah Moore <>
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>> Before going to this trouble, check to see whether your software has
>> automatic plug-in delay compensation. I believe Nuendo 2 does.
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>Or maybe check that you have a M/S decode plugin already. I'm not sure
>what advantage all this fussing around is when with a single plugin I
>can get all this. The one I use has, in addition to the stuff described
>the ability to pan the mid and side contributions separately.
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>And I'm sure it's far from the only decoder plugin available.
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>No channel splitting to dual stereo, none of the rest. Just take your
>M/S recorded on the two channels (if you make a error and reverse the
>channel assignment, no problem, the plugin can handle that too with a
>simple flick of the mouse), run it through the plugin in realtime and
>adjust the stereo field to suit. And being a plugin, it's integrated
>into the rest of the FX Machine's plugin array. Filtering, sonograms and
>all. The same plugin will also back decode XY stereo to M/S.
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>Walt
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
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