ario
Date: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:01 am ((PDT))
We got a small m-s monitoring box built for us by DACS audio up in Tyne
and Wear in UK (you can contact them for any custom tasks), and have been
using it with great success with our FR2.
Antti
On Fri, 12 October, 2007 5:31 pm, Walter Knapp wrote:
> Posted by: "Connor Walsh"
>
>
>> How do any of you manage monitoring M-S in the field?
>>
>
> I set the gain on the two mics independently for the best recording
> using the recorder's metering, and then monitor the mid in mono. I starte=
d
> out using a SD MP2 and monitoring the stereo, but found it was too
> tempting to start fiddling with the gain to adjust the stereo field and
> that would lead to one channel being recorded weakly. Plus, of course,
> that was another piece of equipment to cart around.
>
> I decode later on the computer and adjust the stereo field then. M/S
> allows you to have a range of stereo fields. Of course the undecoded M/S =
is
> what goes into my archive copies. The stereo field is a derivative and I
> may back it up too, but it's not the "original".
>
> Walt
>
>
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Dr Antti Sakari Saario
Lecturer in Music Technology
LICA
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Lancaster University, LA1 4YX, UK
Tel: +44(0)1524594496 / Fax: +44(0)1524 39021
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