Do a lot of you guys use this technique?

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All the time when I'm mastering other people's work, rarely in my own music.

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whats this then?

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stereo image widening/narrowing for specific frequency bands.

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It's not a widening technique per se, though sometimes you can fake it with M/S EQ. Basically certain plug ins will allow you to EQ only the content that is shared in both the Left and Right channels (ie, the mid), or frequencies that are different in both the left and right content (ie, the side). It's useful if say you have a mix where the vocal is a little too bright in the center, but you don't want to EQ the whole song which might make the lovely effects and stereo reverbs disappear. So you can use the mid channel of the EQ to adjust the vocal in the center, leaving the stereo information intact (mostly).

Off the top of my head I know Ableton's EQ8 and DMG's eQuality offer this, though I'm sure there's others too.

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Mid/Side can be a seriously badass tool if you use it right. FabFilter Pro-Q is nice for this, as well as GlissEQ.

never got to grips with it tbh

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use it sometimes for widening stuff

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izotope ozone 4 has this - I've mucked about a bit with it when using my AKG's, definitely recommend quality headphone use if you want to attmept it!

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some great advice, I find im using it more to spread the hats a tad bit, only when i dont want to use imaging....


I am wondering if I dare get into mid side compression, lol.

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dont be shy , squash those sides, push your sides out to the point of almost dissapeaaring in mono but not quite


but not on yer kick drum mind

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Is that what it will do? I have yet to delve into this.

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so if your kick drum were a cantaloup and you well and truley pushed the sides out, like scooping out with a spoon, you'd have no juicy insides left but a very nice shell where the once juicy cantaloupe resided? I think i got it

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Yep!

I have an EQ being custom built specifically for this task.. hot stuff!

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