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Old 4th April 2009   #8
wado1942
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I discovered about 10 years ago that a short delay (Haas) between 15-30ms, 1 channel inverted and perhaps a low pass filter can really widen things without destroying the mono compatibility or changing the mix. It just takes a TINY bit of the delay to really liven up things. Aside from that, a simple M-S matrix followed by some envelope manipulation and finally, an L-R matrix is all I use. I'm going to build a passive analogue M-S matrix pretty soon so I can use it on analogue sources without going into the digital world first.
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