Split Stereo Mastering, Hows it used Options

[prologicscot]

Hi there

I got so many Qs

Essentially how does bouncing into a split stereo format work in mixdown
as opposed to interleaved stereo files??

Where & in what applications would I bounce into split stereo

Appreciate any advice

Thnx
Isaac

[banevt]

some appiications don't import interleaved files or split stereo files even though most applications will probably handle both there are instances when they wouldn't need to be converted. If you were doing a session in Logic and wanted to import files into Pro Tools you could do this without converting the files in any way if you were using the same file type in both programs. Pro Tools likes split stereo files and wouldn't ask you to convert the files before importing them. Pro Tools would still treat the split stereo files like a stereo track as long as the files were named properly. I am pretty sure that in Logic it's easier to import stereo interleaved files because Logic would just treat the split stereo files as mono files. If you wanted to play these files in iTunes or make CD's from them they would need to be stereo interleaved.

[prologicscot]

interesting what you say there buddy

B'cos not knowing has stopped me using the split stereo format (I have been pondering as to why
I needed to convert whilst taking files into protools)

& the labeling...........yeah time has taught me to label EVERYTHING. So the split stereo reads as a
stereo track (didn't know that

makes life a lot easier for me & a few others who have protools in common in my area

Thanx
Isaac
http://www.qpqproductions.com

[pableins]

hi, i've problem and i hope you can help me. I have a music mono file hard panned to the right and a click hard panned to the left, at pro tools, i hear that they are perfectly separated, but when i bounce them (my purpose is to send the click through a RCA cable to a drummer, and the other channel to the audience) with stereo interleaved (which is my only real option for this) i can hear that at a very low level that they are not completely separated, so at the volume you need to send the secuence to the audience, you hear the click! got any ideas?

[Kristian Sharpe]

Pro-Tools only plays mono files..... so anything stereo is just two mono's linked.... idea being that you pan it left 'n' right at the mixer end.....pro-tools users would never mix in the box ....not proper one's anyway... so it's a more logical way to route digital audio...

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Are you bouncing down in the digital domain? or Ana ? if you where in the digital domain...there's no reason why you should be getting bleed through? that kinda thing simply don't happen unless you've made a routing mistake.... possibly?


1, There's a buss that's getting a small signal from your click track and returning it as stereo?

2, you're digital / analogue desk has cross talk on the summing stage.... likley if cheap?

3,your "playback" device may have a bleed through problem.....

4, why are you using a stereo playback device for a live production....? you could get an 8 track hard disk recorder..... and stem mix your parts so your engineer can compansate parts of the mix to suite the venue.... plus you have loads of chanels for click....

need to know what devices you're using to mix down before any real answers can be said....


cheers...

K.