I have a synthesizer and I have a stereo sound that needs to have reduced stereo spread. I only can use an onboard synthesizer effect for that, and I was wondering if there is an effect known by mixing/mastering to use for this?
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Could you please list the model of your synth?– Michael Hansen BuurAug 24, 2015 at 10:31
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Yes, there are plenty of ways to do this when mixing. Normally each of the left and right signals have their own channel in a mixer and can both be panned center or wide left/right or anywhere in between. There are also stereo imaging plugins that can narrow or widen the spread of a stereo signal and change the "center" of the signal. As Stelios mentions, it is possible to run a stereo signal through a mid-side processor and change the stereo spread that way.
It is possible for certain kinds of compression to change the apparent stereo width also, with lat/vert mode on a record (vinyl) mastering compressor being a famous example.
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Thank you, this is useful info, I'm going to check if my synthesizer has a compression effect with stereo parameters for spreading. Aug 24, 2015 at 15:02
MS encoding and reducing the S level would achieve something along the lines of what you want...
