
Q. How does Mid-Sides encoding/decoding actually work?
I recently bought a Zoom H6 recorder, and am confused how its Mid-Sides recording works. Could you explain?
To find the exact phrase, put the words in quotes or join them together with a plus sign e.g. live+recording or "live recording".
To find, say, all live recording articles that mention Avid, enter: live+recording +avid - and use sidebar filters to narrow down searches further.

I recently bought a Zoom H6 recorder, and am confused how its Mid-Sides recording works. Could you explain?

This debut speaker from new UK company Kerr Acoustic combines a number of unusual design elements — to impressive effect!

Lil Nas X's novel mash-up of trap and country provided an unexpected showcase for the talents of a leading vocal producer and mixer.

Highly regarded for their test equipment, US company Audio Precision are hoping their new mic will find favour among recordists too.

For her eagerly awaited new album, Florence Welch teamed up with one of the world’s hottest producers. Emile Haynie and Florence herself describe the making of High As Hope.

The Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper’s album was mixed twice on its original release. So why mix it again, 50 years on?

The SOS team help a reader track down the source of some mysterious hums and buzzes!

The Lemon Twigs not only draw their musical inspiration from classic power-pop; they’ve also learned to record using authentic ’70s gear and techniques.

Editor In Chief, Paul White has some suggestions for 'cabling common sense' !

Title? Composer for the media. Job description? Squaring the circle...


It may be the smallest mixer they've ever made, but the SiX shares more than just heritage with SSL's legendary large-format consoles.

Talent and hard work have taken Marta Salogni from dive bars in Italy to working with A-list mixing and production clients in the UK in less than a decade.

Former Chief Engineer at Korg, Tatsuya Takahashi is the man who brought analogue synthesis back into the mainstream.

These new controller instruments make NI's tight hardware/software integration more portable and affordable than ever before.

VSL push out the boat with hall-recorded rock power drums and two top of the range grand pianos.

There’s a lot of money to be made writing music for movie trailers — so you have to be good. Have you got what it takes?

This month, Mike Senior vents his frustrations about the use (and censorship, thereof) of profanity in pop music.

Singer, songwriter and producer Jack Garratt is only 24, yet his debut album Phase still draws on a decade’s experience in the music business.

Begun as an experiment, ‘Sweet Dreams’ launched Eurythmics to international stardom and is still filling dancefloors to this day.