I'm not very good at electronics or digital but a doubt came to my head when i was going over some material right now.

In analog gear, whenever you use an eq etc, you change the phase, backwards or forward, of the voltage or of the current because of what inductors etc do to the signal running through it.

Hi, what methods do you use to align phase to avoid phase problems?

I tried some plugins, but I prefer always to spend more time placing the mics correctly to avoid phase problems, but sometimes they're very difficult to remove...

If you use plugins, What kind of plugins do you use?

I have decided to use a patchbay to connect the wall jacks to the back on the console. I have ADC patchbay with punchdown's in the back. My question is will I reverse the + and - on the patchbay when I wire it up ? There is a phase button on each channel. The mixer ( Tac Scorpion )shows the XLR and line inputs as being =

pin 1 - sleeve
pin 2 - -
pin 3 - +

I feel extremely stupid asking this, but here it goes. .how do I know if something is out of phase?

I'm not exactly sure what lining up the phase means. Can someone help me out or direct me to a source that can teach me what this is. I record a lot of local Chicago bands, and I'm pretty much a newbie. HELP!

I've heard people mention that they recommend lining up the phase of different tracks of the same source in their DAWs... I was wondering if, when you have multiple tracks of drums recorded, you would recommend aligning the phases of all the tracks (eg nudging the snare/kick/tom track(s) over to align with their corresponding hits in the overhead mics).

Hey guys as you may have read in a recent post by me I'm trying to do some upgrades in the preamp/mic department. I have to give back the Neve (3405) and Drawmer (1960) 2 channel pre's I've been using. I was thinking about getting the 2 channel Great River BUT was thinking I might be better off to get One Channel of GR and a Royer R-121 mic or Tube mic (K2 for instance).

Hey All, I just started to wonder about this as I was reading a thread on the Sonar user's forum. Hardware EQ does cause phase shifting because of the reactive components (capacitors and inductors) in the circuitry. What about software versions? I'm curious to know how the algorithms effect frequency in the virtual world. Is it by manipulating the time line aka phase?

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In logic if I run duplicate audio on two tracks and phase reverse the signal from one with a plugin I get total phase cancellation as expected at equal volume.