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Professional CDs seems right side is bright left is darker?
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imdrecordings
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Maybe your ears hear differently.
Mine do.... 8)
Comes from years of playing guitar right handed.
As a kid, I'd sit and face the amp and it would be blasting into my right ear. Consiquently, it makes things on the right side sound a little darker. Not to mention playing and touring in loud rock bands... ( with no ear plugs )
also, I stand to the left of the drummer. So my right ear takes a beating from hihat, snare & cymbals...
need I say more about what you are probably experiencing..
Ya, I know..... :roll:
Scott
Mine do.... 8)
Comes from years of playing guitar right handed.
As a kid, I'd sit and face the amp and it would be blasting into my right ear. Consiquently, it makes things on the right side sound a little darker. Not to mention playing and touring in loud rock bands... ( with no ear plugs )
also, I stand to the left of the drummer. So my right ear takes a beating from hihat, snare & cymbals...
need I say more about what you are probably experiencing..
Ya, I know..... :roll:
Scott
I dunno man... I've never heard of this sort of thing being done intentionally -- although I have heard of mixers in some genre's favoring certain playback environments. from the club to the car -- and this *could* be some sort of sick twist on that...
The Van Halen thing, I can see to a degree - guitar on one side, reverb on the other... Up until the late 70's it seems mixers were more liberal with panning practices... High hats panned off moreso, bass off to one side, etc, so yes, many older albums will seem unbalaced in frequency content left to right... Thanks to the damn loudness wars, you don't see much extreme panning of highs or lows nowadays... When that sorta stuff is done you can squash it as hard without deteriorating the imaging in a real obvious way.
Are you by chance in the car doing this? Not to point out the obvious, but if you have typically positioned speakers in the lower kickpanels of the door, the left sides high frequencies are really only gonna be heard clearly by your ankles! The right side's tweeter on the other hand can provide ample high frequency information to your right ear -- it's far enough away that the soundfield is well diffused by the time it gets to ya...
Other than that I'd have to chalk it up to your ears hearing differently too, as Scott mentioned. I have the same problem from live gigging!!!
The Van Halen thing, I can see to a degree - guitar on one side, reverb on the other... Up until the late 70's it seems mixers were more liberal with panning practices... High hats panned off moreso, bass off to one side, etc, so yes, many older albums will seem unbalaced in frequency content left to right... Thanks to the damn loudness wars, you don't see much extreme panning of highs or lows nowadays... When that sorta stuff is done you can squash it as hard without deteriorating the imaging in a real obvious way.
Are you by chance in the car doing this? Not to point out the obvious, but if you have typically positioned speakers in the lower kickpanels of the door, the left sides high frequencies are really only gonna be heard clearly by your ankles! The right side's tweeter on the other hand can provide ample high frequency information to your right ear -- it's far enough away that the soundfield is well diffused by the time it gets to ya...
Other than that I'd have to chalk it up to your ears hearing differently too, as Scott mentioned. I have the same problem from live gigging!!!
