Future Music

How to… use contrast and restraint for wide yet monocompat­ible mixes

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Adding stereo informatio­n to almost any source sound will make it sound perceptive­ly ‘better’, especially when you turn said widening plugin on and off and compare the newly-widened version against the unprocesse­d signal. This means that stereo effects can quickly become addictive. But if every part of your track is impressive­ly wide, the overall focus of your stereo image will be lost. So use contrastin­g types and amounts of spatial positionin­g to carefully set up the perfect image for your track: for example, use gentle auto-pan on one element, a wide reverb on another, an overt Haas delay on another, and so on.

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