On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:18:14 -0000, "Wally"
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

It's a feature that has pretty well fallen out of fashion these days.
It reverses the phase of the output, so that you can correct for
absolute phase, i.e. when the kick drum skin punches towards you, the
speaker cone does the same. There was a big fuss about this in the
early '90s, but it's now generally agreed that there's no audible
difference.

Ah, I see. How does one tell if one's absolute phase is correct?

Unless one has done one's own recording, one can't! To be fair, a very
few labels such as Pope Music do make the point that they use
'minimalist' recording techniques, and they do quote absolute phase on
their recordings. In general however, it seems to be one of those
audiophile fashion things like TIM, which has vanished into the mists
of history. Pretty obviously, it has no relevance to a multi-miked
recording.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering