[DSPplug] omega M/S - Hybrid Mid Side effect released (Win)

[kingozrecords]

Maybe the father of stereo knew, in the 1930's when he invented Mid Side, what he'd created, a surefire method to reduce harmonic distortion and ultimately distortion in general with a simple choice of wiring, but his schema changed the world and provided an often employed level of quality rarely understood by enthusiasts of the day and years to come, I often think that it is this learning curve that prevents people from truly appreciating and adopting Mid Side in their day to day audio techniques.

Personally, I think the original has an interesting texture due to the phase inversion; but it's not always wise to impose an inverted phase as it can have consequences upon the end result.

While I know there is a lot of free Mid Side encoders and decoders, and with them the all too common choices of which stereo elements to include so as to first force mono (L/L+R/R), and then finally there's strict Mid/Side and a hybrid method; this new Mid Side encoder allows you choose between either 70% M / 30% S to 30% M / 70% side, but interestingly, it's done in such a manner that for the most part keeps stereo phase intact. This way you can use the Mid Side effect without having to add a new mono to stereo effect and your workflow is unhindered.

Furthermore, dual mono is forced so as to ensure a cleanly result and the avoidance of aliasing to any destructive extent, to avoid interleaving and correlation.

I put together this video showing My using the Omega Mid Side along with Izotope's RX7 de-clipper to bounce a vocal to a lossless .flac file. While the vocal is nothing special and was frankly just a first take used for a chop that sum-mated to a re-write and rewording, the effect on the vocal overall is profound.


I know that often people wish to separate audio processing and send audio on to reverb, but so often it would make sense to keep that stereo phase intact and yet utilize the Side technique which serves to enhance the effect of reverb (and meaning you could get more out of less, making it a simpler matter to gate, and to avoid harmonic distortion, causing essing and hum). This effect would allow just that quick fix in Windows VST2 and VST3 compatible DAW's in either 32 or 64 bit. I might add furthermore that it also simulates distance quite well, an un-intentional result. Side sounds further away and mid sounds very close: Making the DSPplug Omega Mid Side something to utilize for a myriad of reasons.

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Edit: I wanted to also add, the gain added is of a percentile and only using mid side and not the gain of decibels, meaning the math employed to gain will not exceed one, I achieved this by ensuring that the signal was merely twinned so as to avoid multiplying the signal which naturally causes a great deal of distortion. That equates to, furthermore this plug-in being the most reliable and un-fettered means to provide 100% amplitude without the usual fears tied to adding decibels to already loud material.

[kingozrecords]

Hi, I wanted to add this next example video and then I'll leave the promo of this product alone for while, so here is a singing bit I did for a track that's in a pop style. I'm still in the midst of writing it and I wanted to make it sound great; I'd used the mid side and what's amazing is when I turn it off and on. It's really night and day and I think anyone who hears it, whether or not they buy My product will have a true appreciation of what Mr. Alan Blumlein created in the 1930's - and that's cool.

Let it be said that Mr. Blumlein's methods is one of the best methods for removing distortion ever created, because it's rare that this distinction is noted; it should be taught in the classrooms and so often I question if DSP classes are taught by those who "have" the knowledge due to this sobering thought.

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[briefcasemanx]

Thanks big time