When recording any instrument, like a guitar cabinet or a drum set with a multi-microphone setup, phase plays a key role in shaping the sound. Despite the importance, phase is often overlooked during the recording process because of lack of time or experience. Then during mixing stage engineers tend to use equalizers and compressors to correct issues that might originate in signals not being well time-aligned. Phase measuring tools like goniometers are widely used by mastering engineers to diagnose any phase related issues in a mix, yet their usefulness in shaping sounds of individual instruments is vastly overlooked. The main aim of this paper is to present and analyze easy phase-aligning methods.

Authors: Kruk, Bartlomiej; Sobecki, Aleksander
Affiliations: State Higher Vocational School in Nysa, Nysa, Poland; Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 140 (May 2016) Paper Number: 9580
Publication Date: May 26, 2016 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Perception, Audio Signal Processing, and Recording and Production Techniques
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