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  • Vienna Suite Goniometer

    Hi everyone,

    I've recently come to use the Vienna Suite Goniometer for the first time (VS standard, rather than Pro), and just wanted to check if I've understood how it works correctly. Am I right in thinking that it works evenly across all frequencies? And that a correlation of, say, 0.8, means that only 20% of the frequencies are being phase cancelled?

    Or is it tuned to a particular frequency, or even able to detect the fundamental as in the Vienna Suite EQ, and adjust its aim accordingly? And a correlation of 0.8 would mean that that particular frequency was 20% out of phase?

    I'm just relatively new to really thinking about phase, and by extension properly dwelling on the idea of waveforms and how a single waveform contains information for different frequencies, whether the high and low tones of a single note or the different pitches of a chord.

    I have to say I really like the goniometer plugin. Really useful how it can have two completely different uses of checking stereo image and aligning phase coherence, simply by changing what is fed into it. My mixes sound better with it; multitracked guitars have much more of their lowest octave, giving them a throatier sound which is much closer to how they're meant to sound layered up. And of course it's very pretty, I almost want a tiny extra monitor so it can have its own space being visible the whole time.

    Thanks,

    Pyre


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    Hi Pyre,

    thanks for your friendly message.

    A Goniometer (aka. Vectorscope) is one of the most important measurement tools for me during mixdown, as it reveals information which is not so easy to grasp just by ear.

    @Another User said:

    [...] And of course it's very pretty, I almost want a tiny extra monitor so it can have its own space being visible the whole time.

    ... which is exactly what I do. 😉

    King regards,


    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library