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by **madmax** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:37 pm

don't think this has been covered before ... excuse if it has ... good tip for basslines and drums.

let's take a kick for example:

3 voices. 1st contains mono kick as you would normally process it (as long as it's panned center). 2nd contains same kick sample detuned by +1 cents (or whatever) and highpassed to ~1000Hz (or whatever) and panned -64. 3rd contains same kick detuned by -1 cents (or whatever as long as its diff than the first two) and highpassed to same amount as second and panned +63.

There's lots of room for experimentation within this basic contruct.

by **sampleandhold** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:00 am

So basicually what you are saying is by creating... Good idea. I was just thinking about "The Nine" by Bad Company and I couldn't figure out how they got there stereo so wide. I mean the bass sounds huge. I remember looking at the spectrum analyzer and saw that there were two graphs. One mirrored the other but was just slightly raised in pitch. I think I am going to play with this. Might be good to do once I am done with a song as doing it during will kill my polphony.

Stereo spread is an issue for me lately. Good idea. I am going to play with that tonight with test tones.

snh

by **nads** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:07 am

Seems to me this is just an extrapolation on the "spreader" as applied to vocals. Chuck some delay on a channel for even more oomph....

by **madmax** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:14 am

sampleandhold wrote:Stereo spread is an issue for me lately. Good idea. I am going to play with that tonight with test tones.

How'd that work out for you, man?

by **sampleandhold** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:54 pm

I tried it on a square wave and a b'ed it. It seemed to increase the precepiton of space by about 40 percent. When compared to a pro recording however (Heyaa by outkast) thier stereo spread was about another 30 percent larger.

I guess my ears are sensitive. When applying this technique on the square wave, it appeard that the channel that had the higher pitched sample appeared louder. It wasn't perfectly symetical. I had a bias to the higher pitched side.

This technique works as well as the wavelab plug in I have that is for the stereo spread. But even that didn't compare to space that seems to be present in pro recorded choons.

I am going to study this further.

snh