Use Phase To Balance Your Mix

This is a great trick that can help you get those tricky stereo tracks perfectly balanced in you mix. So if record a anything from an acoustic guitar to a 50 person choir using a stereo miking technic and you get them into the mix and they sound a little left o right heavy, what should you do to balance them. You could play he guessing game and just start turning up one side till it starts to feel even or you could use this phase trick. Take you stereo track and solo it up with something that is dead center like the vocal. Then flip on side of your entire mix out of phase. This should cancel out your centered track. No start turn up the louder side of your stereo track untile you get them most phase cancelation. Flip the phase back and now you have a perfectly balanced stereo track.READ MORE