"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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He rang me in a panic one day saying the FM station had rejected his
tape,
claiming is was "out of phase". So I went to the studio, checked his set
up and listened to the tape on headphones. When switched to mono it
sounded fine, so was not out of phase.

I then rang the FM station and eventually go onto the guy who had
condemned the tape. He explained that his stereo modulation monitor
showed
the tape was OOP.

When pressed for more detail he grudgingly went on to say that the L
channel meter regularly a read higher than the sum meter and this meant
it
was OOP.

The problem was simple: my customer has panned the bass guitar hard left
in the mix, the piano hard right and drums in the centre.

That would have been OK if the modulation level was
not too high. BGtr and Bass Drum (also Floor Tom) would
have been safer in the centre or Bass Phased at the console

He re-mixed the tape with bass in the CENTRE and it got played on air.

The safest and most sensible solution of all:-)

Many folk groups, (example vox, guitar and string bass)
were recorded with the guitar left, vocal centre
and bass right.



Your post got me thinking, Phil
As I mentioned above, many folk recordings in the
60s were made with vocal centre, bass right and
guitar left.

So I decided to put together a rhythm track, Piano,
BsGtr, and Drums like the one you mentioned.

Here it is with the BGtr panned left, Drs centre
(except for overheads which I left split) and piano
right.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...st/BgGtr01.mp3

Here is the same track with BGtr centre, Drs left
and piano right.

http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...est/BGtr02.mp3

Phase analysis segment 1
http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...GtrPhase01.jpg

Phase analysis segment 2
http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches...GtrPhase02.jpg

Version2 is certainly a lot safer
But nevertheless, I like the bass on the left:-)
I can understand why you friend was asked to remix it:

Iain

PS Anyone know the tune to this rhythm track?