Lots of comments burried in the 10 vs 12 AWG thread about sound stage. Some of them are even correct.
Using just panning, a mixing engineer can place a single track (usually an instrument/vocal) anywhere they want from 100% left to middle to 100% right. This is easy. With mini-monitors such as the BBC LS3/5a or my Sonus Faber Concertos, it is fairly easy to reproduce a sound stage that is wider than the speakers are apart. Its all done with phase manipulation. Back in the late 60s and early 70s, lots of the grasshead albums played a lot with phase effects to make sounds fly around the room. Check out Moody Blues or Emmerson Lake and Palmer. In the mid-90s Creative Labs (the Soundblaster folks) had a driver for windows that did an impressive job of making sounds move arround the user sitting in from of the computer monitor, using just two computer speakers. It even did a credible 'behind the user' effect. You push a track to the edge (right or left) using just normal signal. You can push it past the edge by feeding in negative phase from the opposite speaker. In acoustic music, good ORTF or even spaced omnis can record this naturally from the space. Listen to some Anonymous Four, recorded in some English churches for clear examples. -- Pat Farrell PRC recording studio http://www.pfarrell.com/PRC _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
