How do you reverse phase in cubase LE?

There isn't a button on the mixer window like in Nuendo... does it even have this function or is this one of the things taken out that make it "light"?

The Cubase LE help wasn't very helpful with this...

h8 m0dems wrote:How do you reverse phase in cubase LE?

There isn't a button on the mixer window like in Nuendo... does it even have this function or is this one of the things taken out that make it "light"?

The Cubase LE help wasn't very helpful with this...

120 seconds with Google provided this:

http://www.roughsurface.com/index.php?id=45

hope that helps

Select the section you want reversed, right click and choose, Process, then Phase Reverse.

I am not familiar with Cubase but can you not just manually shift the track while magnified? If so you can line up your wave files accordingly, no? I do this often in ProTools.

sure, but if you'd like it exactly 180° then "phase reverse" is shiny.

Jan wrote:sure, but if you'd like it exactly 180° then "phase reverse" is shiny.

I am often confused by this... wouldn't it be more likely you were out of phase by some other degree than 180? And if so, wouldn't the ability to manually slide the wav into place be more useful than a limited 180 reverse button? Phase is not binary, correct?

(sorry if it is a dumb question... I am only speaking from what I have experienced... I am not properly educated in such things)

stewie wrote:Select the section you want reversed, right click and choose, Process, then Phase Reverse.

Thank you sir!!

"phase reverse" actually changes the polarity of the wave (changing the wave from backwards forwards to forwards backwards), rather than altering the phase relationship with any other track. This is useful when microphones are facing each other and therefore the polarities of the waves hitting them are at odds eg snare top and bottom. Basically sometimes no amount of sliding will suffice, as the waves are fundamentally opposite in polarity and will interfere destructively unless one wave is flipped with the "phase" reverse button
god what an awful explanation
someone else try


edit ok i found pictures, this will make it easier


ok these waves above have opposite polarity, so you hit the phase reverse, it sounds better. But no amount of sliding will make these waves sound right



these waves have the same polarity, but imaging what would happen if the dotted wave and the top wave cobined. Crappy guitar tone that's what. Using phase reverse will make things sound bad, but sliding will make it sound better

so basically there are two ways to be out of phase, polarity out of phase and time out of phase. Fix the first with the phase button and the second by realigning

hmm makes sense to me... but yeah it is a round about explanation

i think realigning is more 'real world'.
on the other hand... lets take snare top and snare bottom mics ("same" kind of mic), angled at the "same" degree and placed right on top of each other on a vertical line... you could almost be sure to flip the phase 180° on the bottom mic, i guess.
on the other hand: what sounds good is good, even if its 180° out.

lets take the high llamas 'Bach Ze' from 'Snowbug'.
listen to the refrain and switch to mono. gone are the lead vocals! first song on the album. heard the song first watching the video on tv, a mono tv... i was stumped. but its a gorgeous song anyway!

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