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In Reply to: RE: Why is inverting or non-inverting important? posted by Tre' on June 06, 2017 at 12:09:21
Yes that is my understanding too. I can remember reading about the 'wood effect' years ago but I suspect many of us have no idea if our systems are inverting or not. Or the recording we are listening to.
Which still makes me wonder why it is even an issue.
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It's all fun until you get to the music, which as near as I understand has NO phase standards.
It is even possible for multiple cuts to be editied together from several studios and THEY aren't all in phase.
I doubt any album with the possible exception of a single, live track,is all recorded in phase. Or rather that all tracks agree as to phase.
If your stereo has an absolute phase switch, try it is the best advice. It may actually help on a few tracks but not matter on most.
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It's my understanding various instruments (esp multi-track, overdubbing) may not be in phase, on one song. Sometimes, done for effect.
There are no strict rules, in the studio of pop music.
8^)
All of what has been said above is true.
There's no way of knowing and most are mixed.
My point would be, to hear the record *as produced* one needs to know if the playback system inverts or not.
Tre'
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Back in the 1990's I had a client at the recording studio who was obsessed with absolute polarity.
John had a little "clicker" that he would click at the mic and a box that he would place close to the monitor speakers and "prove" that everything was in polarity.
I just looked him up. He did release the songs we worked on when he got back to Sweden in 1999.
I looked up the album and knew for sure that I had the right guy (even before finding his picture on the cover of the album) when I saw the title of the last track.
"12. Polarity Test [Correct Polarity +++ -] - 0:05"
Too funny!
Tre'
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"My point would be, to hear the record *as produced* one needs to know if the playback system inverts or not."
Bingo!
On the subject of recorded music, I have one CD of an older British group (Yardbirds, I think) where the left channel is inverted from the right. Played normally on stereo speakers, there's virtually no bass at all. Invert one speaker, and Voila!
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