stereo widening technique

Lately I've been trying this new technique where I take every sound mixed down and create a duplicate track of it pan one hard left the other hard right and then stagger the 10 band eq +6,-6 on one channel and then do the same but reverse on the other channel. Then pan/mix them to taste. It sounds confusing but what I'm essentially doing cutting frequencies on one side and then making up for them on the other side.

Does this compute with any one and does anyone use a similar approach? Or am I fully of my rocker, cause lately my shits been sounding tight.

i just use plugins for stereo widening

over that i don't do much more than automating panning on the mpc when it comes to messing with left/right channel

i think this is one way how logic's stereo widening pluin works.

Weird... If I understand correctly, this is something that I just started experimenting with in Ableton.

I have only done the eqing part of what you described sounds/tracks I don't want centered like bass or kicks. But everything else sounds exactly what I have been doing.

Using this style I have found more useful after I read up on the Haas effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haas_effect

This guy repeats himself a few times, but does an alright job of explaining the effect using a 2X and SP-303.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onN9mQ7nDNU

Nice! now try detuning one sound just a little bit instead of using eq

+1 to penumbra.beats Haas effect is bad ass, that and mid side processing.

Seanstatic, what sounds even better is doing the exact opposite. Taking wide frequency bands and panning/spreading them, so you can have your bass frequencies be near mono but your high frequencies wide as ****.

m56p87 wrote: Taking wide frequency bands and panning/spreading them, so you can have your bass frequencies be near mono but your high frequencies wide as ****.

This is the main reason I am trying different DAWs out right now. I used to build stuff like that, even program synths, but now its just a plug in or what ever to do it. So can't go back now. All to keep the lows in the centre. The program i am using has the (fake?) M/S option on the compressor to lessen the stereo field to mono below any frequency, and its just goes on master bus or what ever to make stuff sound like a commercial mix. Yeah works quicker than making everything like that from scratch.

bliprock wrote:

m56p87 wrote: Taking wide frequency bands and panning/spreading them, so you can have your bass frequencies be near mono but your high frequencies wide as ****.

This is the main reason I am trying different DAWs out right now. I used to build stuff like that, even program synths, but now its just a plug in or what ever to do it. So can't go back now. All to keep the lows in the centre. The program i am using has the (fake?) M/S option on the compressor to lessen the stereo field to mono below any frequency, and its just goes on master bus or what ever to make stuff sound like a commercial mix. Yeah works quicker than making everything like that from scratch.

I'm a big fan of reasons stereo expander, kind of the best of both words. You can slap it on a signal and widen different frequencies with a few knob tweaks or make a whole multi band processing chain.

Logic: Sample Delay on the track or on an aux bus is nice for a fake stereo for mono sources or just pushing something wider on both sides instead of simple panning,

Logic: Spreader sounds a little like the subtle chorusing effect of a tape machine. good in small doses. killer on analog synths.