Is there a polarity "button" in PT, or must I use
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Is there a polarity "button" in PT, or must I use
Hello,
Last night, I was tracking a friend on acoustic guitar with 2 mics (Bluebird & Cascade ribbon) and noticed that i was apparently having phase issues. It sounded weird, and when I zoomed in on the waveform, the peaks and valleys were opposite each other.
Anyway, since I apparently fried my outboard preamp, I couldn't flip the polarity on one of the mics while tracking. Or can I? Is there a virtual button on the PT channel strip that I missed, or do I have to just track and then flip it using the Audiosuite "Invert" plugin?
BTW, I am using PT 6.4 LE with Mbox on an XP machine.
Thanks for any help,
40percentrobot
Last night, I was tracking a friend on acoustic guitar with 2 mics (Bluebird & Cascade ribbon) and noticed that i was apparently having phase issues. It sounded weird, and when I zoomed in on the waveform, the peaks and valleys were opposite each other.
Anyway, since I apparently fried my outboard preamp, I couldn't flip the polarity on one of the mics while tracking. Or can I? Is there a virtual button on the PT channel strip that I missed, or do I have to just track and then flip it using the Audiosuite "Invert" plugin?
BTW, I am using PT 6.4 LE with Mbox on an XP machine.
Thanks for any help,
40percentrobot
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I have long thought that it would be nice if you could just hit a polarity button on PT channels. But you can't. I use a mixing board, so it's no big deal when tracking. My usual work around is to just use the basic Digi EQ plug, which is very DSP efficient, and hit the polarity reverse there. It will certainly save you the agony of listening out of phase and then inverting later. Cheers,
Ryan
I have long thought that it would be nice if you could just hit a polarity button on PT channels. But you can't. I use a mixing board, so it's no big deal when tracking. My usual work around is to just use the basic Digi EQ plug, which is very DSP efficient, and hit the polarity reverse there. It will certainly save you the agony of listening out of phase and then inverting later. Cheers,
Ryan
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I also always just use the Trim plug-in, although I'm not sure if that was present in vers. 6.4 or if it showed up later. I wish they would just have something there on the channel strip, but obviously they don't.
Sliding tracks to align attacks is ultimately the best bet if the problem is timing related (one mic closer than the other) while inverting is is really only helpful if the signals are really coming in opposite or close to it. Are the two mics in the same position or do you have something like one by the hole and the other by the neck?
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Sliding tracks to align attacks is ultimately the best bet if the problem is timing related (one mic closer than the other) while inverting is is really only helpful if the signals are really coming in opposite or close to it. Are the two mics in the same position or do you have something like one by the hole and the other by the neck?
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Dang, I use Sonar, it has one on each track, I use it constantly to check sounds. Not sure how I would live without it!!
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Yeah, not so much a serious headache, but a bit ridiculous for what's supposed to be the most "pro" software package. Somebody at some point made a design decision not to include a polarity-invert button standard on each strip. Now it's kind of entrenched, and if they add one then they've got to update all the hardware controller drivers, and people will soon enough (and with good reason) clamor for polarity-invert buttons on the hardware controllers themselves...loveless wrote:Cubase has this on each track as well. This is what has always confounded me about Pro Tools. I'm not knocking it but it just seems like a serious headache having to insert an EQ to flip the phase on a track.
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