avoiding excessive stereo spreading/panning? your methods used in the mixing process?

[osiris]

Just tried it on a track placed after Flux Stereo Tool. Wow. Maybe this pluggy's old, or it got overlooked, but Basslane will be on all my tracks from now on. This is exactly what I needed. FL and none of my widener plugs have an option to widen above certain bands, like the one in Logic.

[highkoo]

Just tried it on a track placed after Flux Stereo Tool. Wow. Maybe this pluggy's old, or it got overlooked, but Basslane will be on all my tracks from now on. This is exactly what I needed. FL and none of my widener plugs have an option to widen above certain bands, like the one in Logic.

This comes up a lot.
This is important for any bass heavy electronic music and I dont know, prolly other genres.
The very last thing I do to every single track I have ever done is add a mono-bass filter plug to the master.
(That is, when I dont forget before rendering, and then go back in, add it, and re-render. Thats about half the time. )
I dont really use it to mix. I only notice it when its playing pretty loud, or on a bigger system.
Theres a few plugs out there, and if all you are doing is monoing below a certain point, any would do I guess.
Two others are DeLaManchas ThreeSome/Freesome, Sanford Bass Tightener, and NuGens MonoFilter.

Also, every mixer channel in FL is able to go mono, or add to spread.
If your sub is on a channel alone, crank that shit all the way right.

[osiris]

What I liked was, the basses I'm using, one is big bottom and the other is higher squishy. The mono plugin kept the bass solid, but I left the track stereo, so the nice little spread effect from the high synth is still there in upper frequencies. I set it for 195 hz, the default was 300 but I like my snare to have space.