Ozone Imager v2 (free)

[irpacynot]

I finally got it installed a few days back, and man, was it worth it! What a tool this sucker is. I even just tinkered around with it while trying to re-master a tune. So much versatility. I know I'm a newb and probably incredibly lttp, but I just had to express some gratitude.

And also notable is, it doesn't kill my CPU usage. I'm using an old PC, so it's greatly appreciated when I can get something this useful to function on this old girl.

[vitocorleone123]

I finally got it installed a few days back, and man, was it worth it! What a tool this sucker is. I even just tinkered around with it while trying to re-master a tune. So much versatility. I know I'm a newb and probably incredibly lttp, but I just had to express some gratitude.

And also notable is, it doesn't kill my CPU usage. I'm using an old PC, so it's greatly appreciated when I can get something this useful to function on this old girl.

Just check with another tool to see how much of a phasing issue you may be introducing, as well as checking mono compatibility.

[Trancit]

I finally got it installed a few days back, and man, was it worth it! What a tool this sucker is. I even just tinkered around with it while trying to re-master a tune. So much versatility. I know I'm a newb and probably incredibly lttp, but I just had to express some gratitude.

And also notable is, it doesn't kill my CPU usage. I'm using an old PC, so it's greatly appreciated when I can get something this useful to function on this old girl.

Just check with another tool to see how much of a phasing issue you may be introducing, as well as checking mono compatibility.

To my tests, this is one of a very few which stays very transparent and is perfectly mono compatible... there are not many of them...
So this is a very very nice plugin (especially for free) for widening your material.

[irpacynot]

To my tests, this is one of a very few which stays very transparent and is perfectly mono compatible... there are not many of them...
So this is a very very nice plugins (especially for free) for widening your material.

Yeah, been utilizing the second option mostly, where it maintains its mono quality. I've even had great results narrowing signals, which has been quite useful, since I play almost exclusively in opening tunings played fairly low (even an amalgam of DADGAD in A). Seems to have a lot of potential to clean up muddiness.

[escanormusic]

Had pretty good results with imager, had to get it because Ozone 10 destroys my cpu when using as an effect

[MULTIVERSOR]

Yes! I also like this plugin. Specifically the free version.
Absolute mono compatibility and also zero latency.

[Woody_LE]

Is there the possibility to switch the lower frequencies to mono?

[Igro]

Is there the possibility to switch the lower frequencies to mono?

Use frequency splitter. I think most of the DAWs have it. It may slightly change the overall sound, but not too much with only two filter crossovers. There is a free splitter by Waves.

[irpacynot]

Is there the possibility to switch the lower frequencies to mono?

Use frequency splitter. I think most of the DAWs have it. It may slightly change the overall sound, but not too much with only two filter crossovers. There is a free splitter by Waves.

Oh, wow. So, how does that work?

[Igro]

Is there the possibility to switch the lower frequencies to mono?

Use frequency splitter. I think most of the DAWs have it. It may slightly change the overall sound, but not too much with only two filter crossovers. There is a free splitter by Waves.

Oh, wow. So, how does that work?

Because the signal will be split into two frequency regions, you have to add a "monorizer" to the lower frequency region. There are free plugins that can do this. In fact, Izotope Imager IS this plugin.

Use free Waves Studio Rack (it IS a splitter plugin which can turn any plugin into multiband plugin) which support inserting any third party plugin. With StudioRack you can add any effects to only a desirable frequencies. Again, having possibllty to use any third plugin inside StudioRack makes it amazing. As far as know, BlueCat has that plugin too, but it's not free.

In fact, most of the DAWs has this splitter as a native plugin. FL Studio, Studio One, Bitwig and so on. While I use FL Studio, I still prefer Waves splitter.

Izotope is not the first company that introduced fully mono compatible imagers. Melda MStereoSpread has one too. They are based on psychoacoustic.

[Trancit]

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Izotope is not the first company that introduced fully mono compatible imagers. Melda MStereoSpread has one too. They are based on psychoacoustic.

But little enough to find it remarkable... Most stereo widening plugins are doing really a bad job when it comes to mono compatibility...

[MattLeschuck]

Mode 2 is really good on this.

[irpacynot]

Because the signal will be split into two frequency regions, you have to add a "monorizer" to the lower frequency region. There are free plugins that can do this. In fact, Izotope Imager IS this plugin.

Use free Waves Studio Rack (it IS a splitter plugin which can turn any plugin into multiband plugin) which support inserting any third party plugin. With StudioRack you can add any effects to only a desirable frequencies. Again, having possibllty to use any third plugin inside StudioRack makes it amazing. As far as know, BlueCat has that plugin too, but it's not free.

In fact, most of the DAWs has this splitter as a native plugin. FL Studio, Studio One, Bitwig and so on. While I use FL Studio, I still prefer Waves splitter.

Izotope is not the first company that introduced fully mono compatible imagers. Melda MStereoSpread has one too. They are based on psychoacoustic.

Ah, okay. I've kinda been doing that using a different procedure. I have been creating separate return tracks with TDR Nova and whatever effect I'm wanting to isolate. Then I isolate a particular band in Nova to then go through that effect and return it back to whichever channel(s) I want.

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Izotope is not the first company that introduced fully mono compatible imagers. Melda MStereoSpread has one too. They are based on psychoacoustic.

But little enough to find it remarkable... Most stereo widening plugins are doing really a bad job when it comes to mono compatibility...

Yeah, when I first tried out the Wider plugin, I was pretty impressed by it, but...

Mode 2 is really good on this.

...when compared to Mode 2 on Imager, the transparency is night and day, in my opinion. Well, at least for its intended use. I still find Wider and other effects like it quite useful if I'm simply wanting to create a certain type of sound.

[Trancit]

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Yeah, when I first tried out the Wider plugin, I was pretty impressed by it, but...
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This is for example one of the worst... and I don´t like it´s sound... it´s just phasey and cheap sounding besides that it destroys even every little rest of mono compatibility...
I will never understand the hype about it...

[Agg]

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Izotope is not the first company that introduced fully mono compatible imagers. Melda MStereoSpread has one too. They are based on psychoacoustic.

But little enough to find it remarkable... Most stereo widening plugins are doing really a bad job when it comes to mono compatibility...

Because those plugins prioritize L and R, and screw mono (M) and side (S). The Izotope plugin prioritizes M, and skews L & R & S all a little bit instead, which is smart because in real world S channel practically doesn't even exist anywhere in isolation, but M does (and solo L or R exist only very rarely).

Say you go sit in a chair, R speaker on a shelf next to you, while L speaker is on the other side of the room. That's when you'll hear what the Izotope plugin does. It's just such a niche case that it's more favourable than screwing up mono compatibility, but regardless there's no free lunch.