Making your sounds distinctly stereo (without messing up mono compatibility)

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Have you ever found yourself working on a sound, but you just want it to be nice and wide in the stereo field, but then you try listening to it through your phone speaker, and then it sounds like complete unintelligible garbage? Well, I've finally found a method that works decently well, and requires little effort (but potentially a lot of computer power).

1. Take your sound, preferably with unison turned off.

2. Duplicate it using CTRL C, and CTRL Z, and then set Unison to 2, and the spread to 100 on the newly made copy.

3. Send the 2 synths to the same effects using a merger.

4. Mix the stereo sound down pretty low (between -12 and -18 db on the master volume).

5. Profit with your new stereo-and-mono mixed sound.

Obviously this isn't the only way, but I discovered this really works a lot of the time. Experiment with it, and see what you can do.

Note: Replace Unison with Shift/Detune for Space sounds. For pulv, uhh... I got nothing. Will update more.

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  • a few panoramas with a splitter and 2 mergers works well as a mid-side creator (for mono sounds); then you can slap as many effects as you want on the 'side' part (preferably also an equalizer)

    • I did try that, but it didn't have the same effect.