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Trem 🎙️ · 18th June 2023

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Originally Posted by avare ➡️

I am making this explicit. We are writing about mixers.

Showing your lack of knowledge is asking about phase and polarity, They are the same thing On an analogue mixer they are in the input section with a switch. You are making this necessary to spell it out you. You do not know the basics and you do not know what non hidden feature this is,
you in the first post that your current level of knowledge is minimal.

Thanks! This is the kind of answer I was hoping for. Since I don’t have an analogue mixer with such a switch, that stuff was indeed hidden from me.

Now that we have that out the way, what are your key insights regarding how to deal with phase/polarity?

Currently I record with one mic (when I record with a mic, like on an acoustic guitar), in order to minimize potential phase issues (since I don’t yet know how to deal with them).

I will grab a book for sure (thanks for the pointer above Sharp11). Books can be a bit abstract though, so anecdotes and personal approaches would be great to hear about.