Excellent example! This technique was used by the Grateful Dead for
vocals in the 80s - two mics an inch or two apart, and they sing into
only one of them. Then the wall of sound behind them was removed by out
of polarity combining, and the voices came through loud and clear. It
was pretty tricky with the gear they had back then, but it's a common
mode rejection thing just like balanced lines.
Brilliant work, Rich!
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Lou Judson =95 Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On May 3, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Rich Peet wrote:
> Now I take one of the channels and invert the channel so that all the
> positive voltage peaks of the sound are now negative, and the negative
> voltage peaks are positive. I then sum the two stereo channels into a
> mono file mixing the two channels equally into one. I bring the gain
> up as needed to match the stereo file.
>
> The result is that any sound that was identical between the two
> microphones in the stereo file is cancelled out and goes away.
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