@Turban Sessions it's referring to stereo width, reverb can make something sound huge but that's different. Most DAWs have a stereo merge/separate built in to each channel, but there are many solid plugins for achieving this effect, such as Ozones stereo imager.
One trick I do to be a bit more surgical than can be done with an EQ is to use the wavetable editor to remove the fundamental (or more) from one oscillator, then remove everything else from another oscillator, and only apply any kind of widening to the former. That way I have precise control over which harmonics stay perfectly mono.
There is a way to widen your sub without phase problem! Dimension expander effect in serum can do that. You can also pan your sub with pitch synced sine wave loaded in noise oscillator.
@@SlapShotts do u use FL studio? Cos you could just use the frequency splitter plugin to split the low end inside patcher and put a imagining plugging next to it
Drum Bus - All my drums and percs are routed to this channel. Sub Bus - Sub frequencies (below 200 hz) are sent here. I set this one to mono by default. Melody Send - Where al melodic elements are routed If I need to widen the bass, I'll send it to a separate mixer and use an eq to cut everything sub 200 hz, then do my stereo processing there. All of my 'send' channels are then sent to a premaster for pre-master processing before i move on to the master channel In the end result, everything always sounds clean. This is my simple way of doing it if anyone else wants to try.
I've never used a stereo widener because I've never found one that didn't sound like ass. If I feel compelled to apply widening it's usually a sign to me that I need to go back to the drawing board and start a patch from scratch or eq other parts of the mix more.
Ozone Imager/Wider/Stereo Tool V3/A1StereoControl-x32 (it has feature monoing below certain frequency) and doublers which work for bass in some cases: Vocal Doubler, KHS Ensemble. These are all free. You can use more than one widener for one track/stem if you know what you're doing.
Lil side EQ on the master cutting up to around 100/150hz (listen for best results, some genres might be lower or higher) helps keep things in mono without too much hassle
But doesn't a mono system play all the frequencies in mono and not just sub frequencies? I don't grt why widening the high end would be ok for a mono system?
Omg thanks so helpful! Wait, 1. What is widening and what does it do? 2. What is "the low end"? 3. If one channel happens before the other, wouldn't it mean the whole bass would sound off beat because one sound wave will play before it's supposed to? How is that not the primary concern, even if it's on a stereo speaker? 4. What's a "SUB"? 5. What's a "vital" preset? 6. What's a sine wave and how is it different from a normal sound wave? 7. What's an oscillator? 💀
Much easier and healthier for mix (I think) will be do it on a master bus in eq - you just loCut side and after that search for point where it will sound the best for mix. For example, in rock mix bass can be in stereo much lower (even to 90 hertz but mostly not lower 100) when in electronic music you need more consistent low end, so it can be 130-150 hertz. But do it only with ears, sometimes there’s no any problem with phase even when your bass in stereo)) Art! Music!
