* MS->LR conversion: why does order matter with gain?
@ 2020-05-30 18:46 Jeff Learman
2020-05-30 18:52 ` Jeff Learman
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From: Jeff Learman @ 2020-05-30 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
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* Re: MS->LR conversion: why does order matter with gain?
2020-05-30 18:46 MS->LR conversion: why does order matter with gain? Jeff Learman
@ 2020-05-30 18:52 ` Jeff Learman
2020-05-30 19:40 ` Jeff Learman
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From: Jeff Learman @ 2020-05-30 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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
>
>
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* Re: MS->LR conversion: why does order matter with gain?
2020-05-30 18:52 ` Jeff Learman
@ 2020-05-30 19:40 ` Jeff Learman
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From: Jeff Learman @ 2020-05-30 19:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Never mind! Colon abuse! I meant to chain effects but instead I used
multiple effect chains.
On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 14:52, Jeff Learman <jjlearman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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