


Now, why exactly this works, well, I can’t begin to tell you.that’s something I’ll let you research on your own. So, in a normal stereo file, to obrain sum/difference, you’d mix your left and right…then you take your original signal, invert a channel and mix them together. When you mix two audio signals, you add them…subtracting them is the same process except you invert one channel beforehand. In case you were wondering what they mean by adding and subtracting audio signals…well. It covers the basics of various joint-stereo methods as they pertain to digital audio. The system has been proven to be rather good) Wikipedia has a rather basic article about FM-Stereo broadcasting ( ) in thier FM Broadcasting article.Īnother good article to read in preperation for this article is joint-stereo article ( ). When the MPX (multiplex) circuit in the FM tuner is able to recieve both those signals, they are “decoded”, basically they apply the same process to those two signals they did to begin with, and out comes stereo. One purpose is to indicate if a transmission has stereo content in the subcarrier.if the 19khz tone is present, then that’s used as a an intermediate frequency so the subcarrier can be tuned on 38khz, which is the second harmonic of 19khz. The difference signal is amplitude modulated onto a 38khz subcarrier in the FM transmission, a 19khz tone is broadcasted just above the baseband (sum) audio, and it serves two purposes. (and, in case you really wanted to know….the sum signal modulates the main FM carrier and serves as the baseband audio, which is how they maintain backwards compatability with non-stereo recievers or when recievers can’t get the stereo signal. the Left + Right is the sum of the channels…both channels basically added together. The Left – Right audio is what’s known as the difference signal…the *differences* between the channels. The Sum/Difference is a very simple matrix system that basically consists of Left – Right and Left + Right. FM Stereo uses a sum-difference audio encoding method to transmit both channels of audio. So, let’s start there, and rather than list ALL kinds of examples, I’m going to keep it simple and say let’s examime FM stereo.
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Trying to write this as a tutorial is kind of difficult…so was trying to figure out how to write the background info before getting in to the processes…so i’m not going to focus so much on making this a real tutiorial and trying to assemble it as so…it’s going to be a slightly mixed and not quite up to the standards (I think), of the first article or future articles….but this is a rather difficult subject to write about, considering a portion of the current processing borrows a page from the early analog systems. First I just want to cover a few aspects of “center channel extraction” Today, I’m going to cover the highly talked about issue of vocal extraction in music tracks…along with the general idea of seperating a center channel out of a stereo mix.Įffects like this are nothing new, in fact, Goldwave has this ability built right in, but we’ll talk about that a bit later. In an effort to not only bulk up the number of tutorials…I’ve decided to cover somet things I’ve seen talked about multiple times on the Goldwave user forums, because I’m sure at some point they’re going to come up either in stuff you encouter or in your own general thinking. check the main page for the final notification about the move, also, the notice about “Gold Wave Editor” has been removed since it appears they have changed names…but still be on the lookout for the editor with the space in the name…that looks nothing like my screen shots. will be where you’ll find the new musichack.with all the old content and tons of new stuff.

the address is also going to change…rather than being a subdomain…we now have a domain. Attention: musichack is moving! that’s right, we’re moving out of the wordpress apartment and in to our own server…sorta (ok, so I run other domains.but hey, i pay for the damn thing)…but I’ve installed wordpress-mu and will be moving the entire ordeal there.
