- [Nate] Mid-side processing is an approach

to EQing where you can boost or cut frequencies

on the sides of your mix differently than in the center.

Stereo audio is traditionally two channels, left and right.

But with mid side, you can imagine your audio

as having a left, right, and center.

Here I have this track loaded

from my friend Hart Thorson, it's called "Across the Sky,"

and it's kind of a minimal techno track.

I'm just going to go and select a region here

in the middle of the track and let's play this track.

(techno music)

So now let's just take a look

at the input/output configuration.

First I'm just actually going to bring this up

by two DB here at the input

'cause the track is a little quiet on the input gain.

There are different ways that we can adjust the gain

with different modules

but I'm just going to do this here right at the input for now.

(techno music)

And then the other thing that we'll notice is

that right now we just have a left and right.

But if I go and just switch the IO configuration here

I can change it to mid side.

And now you'll see that we have

a left, (techno music)

a right, and also a center.

So there are seven modules in Ozone

that offer mid-side processing.

And one thing that's really cool about mid-side processing

is we can use it to EQ the center differently

from the sides and in dance music

we may want to do that to really focus our bass.

And I'm going to show you that right now.

So I'm going to bring this back and let's play the track.

(techno music)

And now let's go over on this side where in stereo mode.

So any change I make to this EQ is going to affect

the left and right, as well as the center.

But if I go to mid side,

now we have a choice of the mid, our center track,

or our sides, our left and right here.

We could also go left, right and EQ the left

differently than the right side of our mix.

I'm going to bring it back to mid side

and I'm going to go to the mid and I'm going to hold down option

and sweep through our frequencies here.

So right around here is where the bass is really pumping,

especially on a big system.

So what I'm going to do is just bring that up

a little bit here and

I'm going to slide down this node here

and let's just boost with a medium Q.

Oops.

And also I'm going to take down some of the high frequencies

in the center slightly.

But now I'm going to go to the side

and let's actually bring those up

with kind of a high shelf there.

All right.

So as you can see in here, mid side can be a great way

to create more precise EQ processing in your tracks.

I encourage you to try this out with some

of your own material, experiment with mid-side processing

and use the other modules that support it in Ozone.

(upbeat music)