In practice the quote you posted was right in some cases... but I wanted to be sure it was known that phase and polarity are different animals... however improperly used as interchangeable terms. Polarity is a a very simple black or white situation where as phase is not. The switch on mixers is really a polarity change, not a phase change. All it does in digital is simply multiply everything by -1 and an on analog boards reverse hot and neutral.
The more important issue for a noob to understand is that the polarity switch will fix phase issues in some cases. Do not look to is as a replacement for proper mic technique or the like as it won't always fix things.
Last edited by Bubbagump; 07-31-2008 at 02:04 PM.
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