How to achieve stereo sounds from stereo patches

rems · 28th April 2006

What do you guys do to make a "stereo" sample (like a piano or string patch from a keyboard) sound really stereo in the mix? I mean, if I use a piano pacth panned hard L & R, it's really only mono. Acoustic guitars are different since they are usually miked at different places, recording different sounds, and when panned out, sound huge.

Nutmeg II. · 28th April 2006

There are several remedies:

EQ on side with more low end and the other with more mids (cuting the oposit side helps)
Put the keyboard on one side and put a delay of the signal to the other side (20-60ms)
Use a Chorus/Flanger/Vibrato/Tremolo/Reverb (you also could use it the way like the delay above)
Use a "Make It Stereo" plug like the one from Waves
Compress one side only or use something like a Transient Designer with oposit settings for L/R
Use 2 different sound modules/keyboard/patches/sounds for left and right

Use all the above ideas in different combinations.

28th April 2006	#1
rems Gear nut Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Cayey, PR Posts: 136 Thread Starter	How to achieve stereo sounds from stereo patches What do you guys do to make a "stereo" sample (like a piano or string patch from a keyboard) sound really stereo in the mix? I mean, if I use a piano pacth panned hard L & R, it's really only mono. Acoustic guitars are different since they are usually miked at different places, recording different sounds, and when panned out, sound huge.

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Nutmeg II. Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: GEARmany Posts: 985	There are several remedies: EQ on side with more low end and the other with more mids (cuting the oposit side helps) Put the keyboard on one side and put a delay of the signal to the other side (20-60ms) Use a Chorus/Flanger/Vibrato/Tremolo/Reverb (you also could use it the way like the delay above) Use a "Make It Stereo" plug like the one from Waves Compress one side only or use something like a Transient Designer with oposit settings for L/R Use 2 different sound modules/keyboard/patches/sounds for left and right Use all the above ideas in different combinations. __________________ "Any recording engineer who uses a tube U47 is obviously not a professional" Stephan Temmer 1979

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