Negative Waveform with Synth Recordings

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Beatport
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Negative Waveform with Synth Recordings

Post by Beatport » Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:48 pm

Hi,

I'm recording some synth parts here and then editing the waveforms. I noticed that the waveform goes negative before it goes positive. This is right when the synth first attacks. Does this mean that something is out of phase? Maybe the cable I used to record with? my preamp? what could it be?

Should I leave it as is or invert the phase on the audio file so that it first goes positive then negative

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Post by Beatport » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:10 pm

help!

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Post by laird » Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:17 pm

if it sounds OK, quit worrying.
Leave it.
If you are really paranoid, do what you say, try inverting the phase and see if that makes it "better". I somehow doubt you'll hear any change if you invert both channels at once.



Out of phase would be more like:

left channel sweep down
right channel sweeps up.

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Re: Negative Waveform with Synth Recordings

Post by BDSS » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:28 pm

Beatport wrote:Hi,

I'm recording some synth parts here and then editing the waveforms. I noticed that the waveform goes negative before it goes positive. This is right when the synth first attacks. Does this mean that something is out of phase? Maybe the cable I used to record with? my preamp? what could it be?
No, it's fine. It doesn't matter what way the signal begins.

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