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soundpool
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I might have to try this out seeing as even the cheapest version has shuffling.
I was also looking for the standard to at least recommended shuffling frequencies a couple weeks ago and also didn't find any specifics given. I started to just mess around by ear for sake of experimenting and also getting to know Kirchhoff in an effort to clean up and revisit some recent big room recordings. I think I wound up at 1K, 12db/o slope and generally trying different settings and amounts of boost around that general region. Maybe right maybe wrong, but it was giving the recordings some really nice clarity and a much better sense of space than they had before, enough that I plan to keep exploring this further. Not Gerzon array recordings to start, but again just showing me some really promising potential to this kind of shuffling technique for stereo pairs.
The frequency used is determined entirely by the physical distance between the mics.
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I've never bothered with plugins for SEQ, as it's so quick and simple to do in a DAW, and doesn't involve processing the original track; it can be done without converting to MidSide and back again (though it doesn't provide for the slight 4kHz bump in the M signal):
- Make a copy of the track.
- Invert the copy.
- Low-pass filter it at around 400 Hz (for most head-spaced pairs).
- Flop the track
- Mix it at a low level (approx -12 to 15dB).
This results in a slight weakening of the low end, so I make a copy of the SEQ track that's
not inverted, to compensate. Sounds complicated at first, but once done a few times it takes only about a minute or so.