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May 27th, 2006, 05:48 PM | #61 | |
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Any opinions about my decision before I go out to buy? Thanks for the rental idea, but at $45 per day, its not worth it for me to rent and I don't know what I'm listening for yet. I'm going to make my decision based on those finely-tuned & experienced ears of the people who know |
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May 27th, 2006, 06:30 PM | #62 |
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Here's a thought: get some video you like (maybe a clip from a movie) with stereo sound, drop it into your NLE and use the MSED plugin to fiddle with it. That will give you an idea of what is possible.
For example, copy the stereo tracks. Use the plugin on the original tracks in "inline" mode to drop the gain on the mid and leave only the sides. Use the plugin on the copy in "encode" mode, gain up the mid and kill the side to extract only the center channel. Mix all the tracks together. Experiment with panning the center channel back and forth. You should be able to do stuff like moving only the dialogue from left to right, while the background sound stays put. It's no substitute for actually having a bunch of different mikes, but you can have some fun, and learn some stuff. |
May 28th, 2006, 08:06 AM | #63 |
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BTW, several other of the free VST plugins at that site are nice too--a real time frequency distribution display, a mono to quasi-stereo processor, etc.
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May 28th, 2006, 10:14 AM | #64 | |
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I have a review of both in my archive. Regards, Ty Ford |
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May 28th, 2006, 12:38 PM | #65 |
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Ty, although you found the LF roll off patterns of the ATs interesting I gather that you liked the overall sound of the VP88 better. Is that right?
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May 28th, 2006, 02:00 PM | #66 | |
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I'll check out your reviews. |
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May 28th, 2006, 04:49 PM | #67 | |
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I do remember that the wider settings of the VP88 resulted in noticeably more noise (presumably from the gain being turned up on the side capsule.) Regards, Ty |
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