No, to prevent this you don't make the bass mono, you just make the groove deeper. It's obvious to anyone who has ever drawn on wet sand as a kid.
D. On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:38 AM, kent williams <chaircrus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well everyone knows not to give a mastering engineer a track with the > bass out of phase. The problem is how stereo is encoded on vinyl -- > vertical motion is the difference between the signals and lateral > motion is what's common between the signals. > > Out of phase bass signals will make the groove shallower at the same > time the needle is being pushed laterally, and the needle pops out of > the groove. > > I have a test press from a Detroit label I won't name, cut by a > mastering engineer I won't name, that skips because somehow it got cut > with this problem, so I know it's not unheard of. > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Tristan Watkins > <phonop...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 21/10/2009 16:43, kent williams wrote: >>> >>> Which is why everything below 100HZ needs to be monophonic! A cutting >>> engineer can't fix that without putting your music through a crossover >>> and messing with the bass phase while checking a goniometer. They >>> really hate that shit. >> >> It's interesting that Rashad Becker from D+M says it ain't so. >> >> Robert Henke: Does this imply that you can cut more complex signals if they >> are in mono than if they are stereo? >> >> Rashad Becker: "Well in mono they /are/ less complex, so mono signals might >> cause slightly less problems. But there is a huge myth about that you can >> only cut bass in mono, thats something which is really resistantly in >> producer's heads, *its absolutely not true!* >> >> I have been cutting several thousand of vinyls and I really have to think >> hard about when ever I had to cripple a stereo bass signal beyond musical >> recognition because it wasn't translatable to vinyl. That might be three >> cases, in all that years." >> >> More here: http://www.monolake.de/interviews/mastering.html >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tristan >> >> >
