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Multiband Stereo Enhancer
These presets may be saved into your Samplitude/fx-preset or Sequoia/fx-preset folder to be called up from with-in the plug-in.
The Multiband Stereo Enhancer A wider scope on this mysterious plug-in
The Multiband Stereo Enhancer (MSE) does a lot more than simply widen your stereo field--it can save you when tracks are not sitting in your mix correctly. / The MSE is a plug-in that can be located in the object editor, the mixer channel or accessed through the STE or SE button, depending on the mixer skin you use, on the master buss. Lets start with the basics. In a mix, the Maximizer control is your friend. As this value is raised, so does the widening of the whole mix in the stereo field. Values between 20-50 allow the mix to sweetly widen without losing its mono capabilities. An example is contained in the Preset 1-StereoEnhancers. Another way to widen a mix is to go after one frequency range. For an example, see Preset 2-StereoEnhancers. Here I am using the multi-band mode and simply widening the mid frequency using the stereo control for the mids. This allows the lows to stay tight and centered and the highs to also remain untouched. In Preset 3-StereoEnhancer, we are using a combination of the two. I have included Preset 4-StereoEnhancer because along with the widening taking place in preset 3, I am also giving a slight Loudness type curve to the sound. Just a small enhancement to the lows and highs. The Multi-band Mode allows you to split the frequency range into three sections and treat them independently. Each of the bands: bass, mid, and high, can be adjusted in volume, pan and stereo width, from very wide to mono. Being able to adjust the stereo width of individual bands to be narrower than the original source and then panning that band for placement in a mix, can be a very powerful tool. Imagine an electric guitar that its upper mids are running over the vocals, you can pan the upper mids slightly and carve out a space for the vocals to sit. Where I use the Multi-band Mode the most is to make things stereo and wide that come into the studio for mixing in mono, such as instruments that need to be placed elsewhere in the stereo spectrum in order to not run over the vocals. A prime example would be drum overheads. Receiving a mix with the overhead in mono in rock or pop music can be a major battle. With the hats sitting center, they can lay right over a lead vocal making thing impossible to sit into the mix correctly. In the preset Overhead - Mono to Stereo1, I have used the panning of frequency spectrums to widen the mono overhead track. Using this sort of panning in small doses can yield a great result. The low mids and bottom, which have the kick and snare in them, are centered, but the part of the ride and hi-hats that share the frequency with the vocals is moved out of the way of center.
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