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abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:31 pm

Stereo width or Sidechaining or both, to get big/wide tracks?
Or something else?
Thanks for any help

WOK · Post by **WOK** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:38 pm

What do you mean with Sidechain ??

For stereo-widening: http://music.service-1.de/html/m-st.html

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 10:53 pm

WOK wrote:What do you mean with Sidechain ??

For stereo-widening: http://music.service-1.de/html/m-st.html

Ah! I guess I'm in the wrong direction, looking at sidechaining, I believe I've misunderstood exactly what sidechaining is. I'll check out, your link. Thanks, Wok

DJ Warmonger · Post by **DJ Warmonger** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:25 am

Sidechaining has nothing to do with width.
I is vital for track dynamics, though, which are very important to make your tracks huge. I just got it right yesterday

And yes, you need both.
As to width, I prefer polyphonic synths with "stereo" or "width" knob instead ofstereo-widening plugins. Gives more realistic results and more control over what's actuallyy going on.

V0RT3X · Post by **V0RT3X** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:57 am

Too much width can mess up your tracks so be careful

crashedthecar · Post by **crashedthecar** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 5:31 am

WOK wrote:What do you mean with Sidechain ??

For stereo-widening: http://music.service-1.de/html/m-st.html

Wow, I just tried your plugin, very nice. i'm going to test this out a bit more

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 5:50 am

A "side-chain" signal is a signal used to control some parameter rather than one that is eventually mixed into a master bus.

Any module that takes a signal as a control input could feature a side-chain input. Effects such as gates, compressors, various other envelope followers, detectors of filtered bands and so on generally by default use the input signal as side-chain. For example a gate allows the signal to pass if the signal is above a threshold. There is nothing to prevent you from using two completely separate signals here though.

The name side-chain is stupid in my opinion and I've never liked it much. Ideally we could call these triggers / control signals but unfortunately the name side-chain has caught on.

zethus909 · Post by **zethus909** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:22 am

lots of delays reverb panning etc.

abstractcats · Post by **abstractcats** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 3:25 am

Thanks, guys! I believe, I've got the idea.

Hermetech Mastering · Sat Jul 26, 2014 11:11 am

A slight wide, high shelving boost around 15kHz on the difference channel can sometimes work wonders.