Well I bet I didn't really mean to use negative gain!  But I think that
shouldn't affect the question.

On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 14:46, Jeff Learman <jjlearman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm converting mid-side to LR.  Originally I used this:
>
> sox $MS $LR gain -0.5 : remix -m 1,2 1,2i
>
> but found that the result does not have an important property of mid-side:
> when summed to mono, the effect does not cancel out.
> I changed it to this:
>
> sox $MS $LR remix -m 1,2 1,2i : gain -0.5
>
> and it works as expected.  Why is there a difference?  Note that there is
> no clipping going on in either case.  My intuition says that MS->LR is
> linear, so gain applied before or after should have the same effect.
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
>
>