Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Re: [Avid-L2] Mono to Stereo Mixdown how many db down -6 or -3 or what?

 

Yes, well a definite maybe. Are you happy with the mix?

DD

On 12/21/2010 5:03 PM, John Moore wrote:
>
> I posted the opposite workflow question a while back. When I take two
> stereo tracks, dialoge, vo , effects etc.... and create a mono audio
> mixdown I drop the resulting track -6db. This has been confirmed on
> this list. When I take a mono track and want to make it stereo do I
> drop the mono track -6db when going to each stereo track? I know it
> won't be a stereo signal but in my case I have stereo music stems but
> only a mono effects stem. I want to create a "stereo" M & E track so
> before mixing down the mono effects with each stereo music track I'm
> dropping the effects track -6db. If I feed my little behringer
> mixboard 0 tone with it panned full left or right when I pan to the
> center each track rides about -6db as best I can tell from the led
> meter so I'm pretty sure I'm correct. I've read that the audio
> ballistics of pan pots can have different curves in fact I think some
> of the digital boards even let you decide how the pan pots sum a
> signal in the center but that really doesn't seem to apply to my
> situation. So is -6db the magic number in this case? My high school
> math and electronics class seems like a long time ago every time I
> deal with logs.
>
> John Moore
>
> Barking Trout Productions
>
> Studio City, CA
>
> bigfish@pacbell.net <mailto:bigfish%40pacbell.net>
>
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>
>

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