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Originally Posted by RRuskin
The biggest thing to watch out for is having the overall polarity totally reverse if you mix in too much of the side signals.
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I'm still exploring this. What I do notice is too much side signal sounds silly - like some giant, glorious guitar played by gods. I recorded a friend playing classical guitar last night, and I did a recording of one of my steel string pieces. I've been doing some comparisons with records I like. Just getting a feel for it.
The other thing I'm getting is room noise, especially from the S mic. I had them about 2 feet out. I'm going to experiment with closer mic'ing and tonight I get to move a bunch of furniture around so I can set things up with the laptop outside the room. Fortunately, my studio connects to the rest of the house via a little hallway, and my wife doesn't seem to mind if I take over a bit more space. (I'm a lucky guy.
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I'm pretty excited about this technique already. The tones we got were very nice. At the moment my biggest concern is trying to reduce the noise a bit, and I expect getting the computer and gear out of the room is going to make a big difference.