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The New Stereo Soundbook by Alton Everest is the best single resource I've found for a solid foundation for achieving depth and dimension in recording and mixing. Highly recommended for those trying to make their mixes sound more dimensional. A lot focuses on recording for depth and realism, mic placement, stereo techniques, but it is also helpful for mixing electronic music, to stage the instruments in an illusory space.
stereosoundbook.com
A lot of albums that have impressive dimensionality seem to sound like the instruments are arranged in a hallway, where the closest elements are on either side of you, and the other elements get farther away as they get towards the center. I've heard of being deliberate, placing elements of the mix three different distances from the listener: close, medium, and far, and having reverb/delay bus effects set up for each, and panning and eq ideas for each. If something is close, it can be panned very far, and also be bright, and bassy, like someone talking right in your ear. There might not be much reverb, because they wouldn't be loud enough to excite the room, if they are that close.
Something medium distance wouldn't be panned as far, would be fairly clear in eq, but not as crispy and hyped. It would be loud enough to excite the room and have some reverb, but it would have some pre-delay to the reverb sound, ie. the direct sound gets to you first, but the reverb sound is delayed from the direct sound, because it has to take a longer trip to get to you; it must go from the source, bounce off the back wall, and get to your ear a little later.
The farthest elements would be at the back of the room, and be washy/blurry, like not a clear eq, and have no pre-delay, as the direct sound would get to you close to the same time as the reverberated sound. Might have echo from being loud and bouncing around the space, and the echo can have reverb on it too. If they are panned, the echo would still come from all over, but the echo and reverb on the other side of the room might get to you a little after, like a ping pong.
No rules to what sounds good, but the human ear has all these cues it uses to know things about the space it's in, so having ideas of how to play off those cues makes a mix more dimensional.
Very interesting (mostly) BBC documentary of the current thinking on sound and how we perceive it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08h5gk8
@skiphunt - Have you tried the app Audio Mastering ? It is a great mastering app and it has a great stereo enhancement tool in it.
Link to the app:
Audio Mastering by iMusicAlbum
https://appsto.re/nl/v3xlM.i
This looks like a good text. Very pricey too... At least on Amazon. Will keep an eye out for used. Also, its originally dated 1992? Still completely relevant?
That looks good, it I don't think we can watch that here in the states due to copyright limitations. I just ran into that trying to watch an episode of Planet Earth 2 that we missed. Won't stream to the U.S.
Funny you should mention that... I was messing around with the Audio Mastering app just last night. Partly an attempt to get back to apps I've already bought and getting more familiar with them instead of incessantly buying every new app that comes out
(liked your LayR tracks by the way)
I bought Audio Mastering months ago when it was on sale, and recently completed the Mastering bundle with AltiSpace, Master FX, and MasterRecord.
Initially, I wasn't fully understanding the interface of Audio Mastering, but when I explored it last night I got much further and indeed was able to open the space up quite a bit with excellent results. I didn't record it because I was trying to get good sound out of the DA ONE synth I bought (not wild about that one out of the box and should've refunded. Doesn't coonect easy enough, and no background audio. The onscreen osc linking is fiddly and often doesn't work at all) the sounds I get from DA ONE are kind of harsh, grating and metallic. Nothing wrong with that, just a matter of taste. But, I also find that synth very dense with no spatial quality at all.
So, I decided to use DA ONE as a test to see if I could use some of my new Mastering tools
(Including Audio Mastering) In order to get a more spatial feel and open the DA ONE density up, and tone down that grating metallic edge with some warm tape fx, etc. worked out well and I noticed Audio Mastering does offer some very good stero enhancement, once I started figuring out the UI.
@skiphunt - Thanks for the compliment about my LayR tracks!
I deleted them in the thread cause I thought nobody was interested in these kind of tracks.
And yeh, I know what you mean by not getting familiar with apps you/i bought....:) But...I think...speaking about myself......there was some fun involved, so it is not a complete waste of money.
About the Audio Mastering app: did you already found out that there is an easy mode and an advanced mode? You can find it in: Settings (top right of screen) > Application (in the middle of bottom of screen) > cross the basic control mode if you want the easy mode, uncross it if you want the advanced mode.
I used the basic easy mode for years, with good results. It is only recently that I use the advanced mode. If you want fast and good results the basic mode is very very good!
Yes, LayR does look like fun. And, I thought your examples were good to see how it sounds with accompaniment
The dev (Igor) told me about the "basic mode" when I got it. Had to go check to see if I was unwittingly actually still in that mode, but I'm in advanced. Just noticed the "asynchronous audio processing mode". Do you know what that's for exactly?
@skiphunt - the "asynchronous audio processing mode"....what it does?....no.....I have not really a clue....not clear to me.....I noticed it too now......but no idea.....
Not wishing to hijack this thread, but…
Can anyone point me to a list that might or might not have been created here in the audiobus forum that purports to identify various apps on iOS that have capability of dealing with multiple channel audio (more than two channel stereo per track or per source or per soundfile). And even better if it involves surround, ambisonics etc. And top marks if it pertains to AmbiX. Want an AmbiX capability in an iOS daw, that's really what I want.
Doesn't seem like a hijack to me. Totally relevant. I'd like to know too.
Basically, this as a super cpu efficient (can one wish?) AuV3....