Ways To Widen Your Sound
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Widening your soundtrack is the most significant part of composing a great mix; it makes all the elements stand out. If you want to compose a good mix then you don’t want your sound to be too thin or too narrow. You can use the stereo image for this purpose.
These are some tricks and tips for widening your sound.
The Haas Effect:
Commonly people known it as the precedence effect, it is discovered by Dr.Helmut Haas. He says that if you want to observe a sound individually then it is essential that both sounds delayed by at least 40ms otherwise it will be considered as a single sound by humans.
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This Phenomenon can be used to widen your sound while composing music. You just have to divide a single sound into two sounds then drag one sound to the left and the other on the right then you must delay the sound by at least 40ms. Your soundtrack will not get out of sync because this kind of delay is not noticeable. That is how the illusion of wider sound will be created.
Mid-side EQ:
Today all the successful music composers have digital equalizers that have mid-side EQ proficiencies. It basically sculptures your soundtrack and makes your sound wider. If your digital equalizer has mid-side EQ then the middle channel will have all the frequencies. You can use this feature for widening your sound.
Panning Automation:
The most common and easiest way to widen your sound is to use the right form of panning automation. If you use its features with creativity you can enhance the width of our soundtrack.
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Specialized widening Plugins:
The specialized plugin can be used to widen your sound, following are some great plugins
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Soundtoys Microshift
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iZotope’s
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Ozone 9 Imager
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Mixing In Mono First
This technique is used by many great musicians such as The Beatles, if you use mono mix prior to stereo version, this action will encourage you to use EQ compression and many other amazing techniques. That is how your sound will get widen. Then your sounds get mix properly then you must start panning it.
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Use Stereo Imager Plugin
Try to apply a stereo imager plugin on individual busses or signals. It allows you to widen your sound. If you use this plugin correctly it will give an amazing effect to our soundtrack. Although remember one thing that excess of anything is not good, so try not to overdo it otherwise it will ruin your soundtrack.
Parallel Imaging:
It is a good way to add compression to your soundtrack and it is also great for widening your sound. Parallel Imaging can be simply done by duplicating the sound then break it into small pieces and then mix it with the original sounds.
If you know some other good tips for the widening sound kindly let us know in the comment section.