Widening up your sound




10 Ways to widen up your sound:

Some of them were already discussed but it's still a nice overview.

1: Stereo Delay: Use a stereo delay with a very short delay time. between 2-10 ms.

2. Split Equalizing: Use an equalizer in which you can equalize the left and right channel separately. This will slightly widen up your sound.

3. Stereo Enhancers: There are a lot of stereo enhancement plugins. I personally play around a lot with the ones from Waves, Brainworx and Izotope.

4. M/S Equalizing. see tip #19 for explanation.

5. Split your stereo channel into two separate channels and pan hard left & right.
6. Put two delays on your channel, pan one hard left and the other hard right.

7. Put two reverbs in two different aux busses. Pan one hard left the other hard right. Cut off all the lows from the reverb. Experiment with the reverb settings. From there on you can also put a compressor behind the reverb or a side chain effect to give it a bit more edge. Some say this works great with smaller convolution reverbs.

8. Formant Shifting: Split the signal into two separate tracks. Then apply formant shifting (Shifting of a frequency range) in an opposite direction to either one or both tracks. You can do this for instance in Melodyne.

9. Put some distortion in a send buss with some stereo enhancers on top and mix that in with the original sound.

10. Be sure that you check your mono compatibility regularly since these effects will most likely mess with that when you apply to much. That's why it can be very helpful to do a lot of these stereo enhancements via busses (Auxes). So you will be sure that your mix will hold in Mono. 

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