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Adding stereo width to your tracks
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
What techniques do you use to give your tracks a nice stereo feel? Obviously there are "stereo widener" tools that work by putting a slight delay on either the left or the right channel, but what about other techniques? Some of the ones I use:
1. For pads, make two instances of a synth, panning one hard and the other hard right and tuning one slightly higher or lower than the other.
2. For hi-hats, using two different samples, one panned left and the other right; or two instances of a single sample, panned to either side with one tuned slightly higher or lower than the other.
3. For snares, using three samples; one in the center and turned up the loudest; two different samples, with one panned hard to each side and turned down softer than the center sample.
4. For synth sounds, panning the sound itself hard to one side and a delay hard to the other side.
5. Automated panning.
Any tips / tricks for giving your tracks and sounds some stereo width? |
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| DJ RANN |
| There's a few good tips in the Andi Vax mixing secrets video on this subject...worth a look. |
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| Magnus |
| Those are some great tips MrJive! You basically covered any trick I could have offered on this topic. |
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| adi_hanson |
| One thing i still have to try , is to automate the high EQ to the right and low to the left. |
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| G-Con |
| I do all the things you have mentioned. I also use different reverb/chorus etc settings to each panned channel. Slight differences in the reverbs send and decay or chorus send or feedback can really help. |
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| Ry Thomas |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
There's a few good tips in the Andi Vax mixing secrets video on this subject...worth a look. |
Andi has a second tutorial due out in the new year. I will post links up when it is complete |
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| farris |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ry Thomas
Andi has a second tutorial due out in the new year. I will post links up when it is complete |
Great! Do you know what topics it will cover? |
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| Ry Thomas |
| I'm not 100% sure tbh dude, i know he's been busy as hell with it lately though. |
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| farris |
| Guess we'll have to wait and see then :) |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
5. Automated panning.
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Autopanning for me!
Absolutely love the Autopan feature in Ableton Live. I don't just use it for stereo width either, you can use it to create some awesome effects as well.
But if I'm not using that, then it's just simple panning and volume control that i use. I'm interested in trying some new techniques though. |
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| Subtle |
| Anyone know of a good autopanner ? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| Another good trick is to have one synth on each side with LFOs going at slightly different speeds. |
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