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Stereo Width Control by Mani Consulting Limited Company
https://apps.apple.com/app//id1493044617
Description:
Stereo Width Control is an Audio Unit plugin that allows you to increase or decrease the stereo width of 4 adjustable frequency bands. Mastering engineers use it to ensure that the bass frequencies of the kick drum and bass instruments stay tightly focused in the centre channel while a keeping spacious stereo image in the mid range frequencies.
Stereo Width Control operates with your choice of 1 to 4 separate bands. Each band has a solo control, used to audition that band on its own while you adjust its frequency range and stereo width setting.
In the lower right is a stereo vectorscope graph that is helpful for visualising the volume and stereo width of your tracks.
NOTE: This app is an Audio Unit plugin that runs inside of host apps such as GarageBand. It does not process audio in standalone mode.
Comments
Looks interesting. I’m wondering if I’ve not already got this ‘covered’ with other apps, but I’m not sure there are any other multiband stereo wideners?
I bought this one immediately
Wooow. So cool.
Haaze 2 maybe?> @audio_DT said:
Ah, now you mention it I do already have Haaze 2. This probably means I don’t have to buy this new one, I hope (!).
Ofc you need to buy the new one
I know. I'll give it a day or two, like I usually do, to work on myself. "You know, you really need this for x". It'll then go into the big unused pile
Anyone tried it? Does it sounds like haaze 2?
Haven’t had a chance to mess with it too much since I’m at work but I’m liking it so far. It reminds me of the imager from izotope. Probably no where near as capable as izotopes but the workflow is similar
Disappointed with Haaze, but do like Infected Mushroom's Wider, but even that sounds a little rudimentary. Doubt I will be able to hold back etc etc.
Disappointed with Haaze, Haaze 2, or both?
Haaze 2 is a tool for making mono signals stereo. Its a totally different concept from our Stereo Width Control. After a brief look at the description it looks like it uses Haas effect. We have a free plugin called Stereo Lag time that does the same thing. Haaze also has a mode that uses different eq on the left and right channels to make a stereo signal out of a mono one. We do not have any plugin that does that.
Stereo Lag time (free):
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stereo-lag-time/id1459615373
The best way to explain the difference between Haaze 2 and Stereo Width Control is that Haaze 2 is an effect, intended to be used on single tracks, that applies different processing to the left and right channels to make a mono track into a stereo one.
Stereo Width Control is more of a mastering tool, intended to be used on a full mix that is already stereo, to control the precise width in various frequency ranges with as little distortion as possible. The main use case for Stereo Width Control is not for widening the stereo image but rather for narrowing it in specific frequency bands. For bass frequencies especially, you usually want mono sound, or very narrow stereo, so that the kick drum doesn’t loose punch due to phase cancellation when you sit in the centre between the left and right speakers. But of course you want the midrange frequencies to have a wide stereo image. So an app like this is useful for keeping the low end tight and punchy while still having the mid range wide and spacious. Other than using this plugin, I am not aware of any other way to do that on iOS.
It does exactly what izotope imager (in ozone) does. The only significant difference is that izotope Imager has a velvet noise decorrelator. We have a velvet noise decorrelator in our plugin called stereo modulator. If you were to run our stereo modulator first and our stereo width control second on a track then you would have everything that the izotope imager does.
Stereo Modulator:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/stereo-modulator/id1370816026
Oh shit, that’s awesome. I do have Stereo Modulator as well, I’ll dig into that chain tonight and mess around with it. I’m really liking what I’ve done with it so far, great app. You guys are in the instabuy category for me lately
Yeah, I also really like Wider - although it's not multiband.
Well this one’s now on my wishlist. Well done.
@Blue_Mangoo: This is a very helpful description. Thank you!
I bought it in the end. It took me a day to convince myself. Well, that's not quite true. I read @Blue_Mangoo's explanation of the app and realised it could add something I don't have. Lo and behold, it does exactly this. Very nice little thing.
Me too. Now I have to dig in the app. I’ve never tried something like this.
Me, neither. Very interesting and useful. I do have wideners (Haaze 1&2 and Wider) but this one is a bit more sophisticated. All have their uses, though.
Just to be clear for other readers that didn’t buy this yet, this plugin is not a widener. Haaze and Wider can take a mono signal and make it stereo by applying various types of phase shifts to the L and R sides. Stereo Width Control does not do that. In fact, if the input is mono then this plugin won’t do anything at all.
The method it uses to control stereo width is simply to convert from L-R stereo to Mid/side stereo, adjust the volume of the side channel, and the convert back to LR stereo. This method is very useful on a full mix because it wont distort the phase or make the transients unclear.
So this app is not an alternative to Wider or Haaze. It would actually make a lot of sense to use it together with either one of those apps to get more precise control over what is happening to your stereo image.
If you were to use it together with Wider, for example, you have to put wider first in the signal chain and stereo width control comes AFTER that. It won’t work well the other way around.
Gotcha. I've not used your app all that much yet but I do very much understand the logic of use you point to above.
@Blue_Mangoo Surprised there were no presets.....often allow slow folks (self) to see/hear the range of possibilities etc.
Presets won't give you any help in this case. The app is really simple to use. I think you just have to consider that the bass will strongly benefit from being mono and the other frequencies can be stereo or very stereo depending of your taste...It is so much better when things are that simple. Beautiful app (as usual with Mani)
Thanks. Will go have another gentle dig about...
I just put Stereo Width on a final mix chain..only tweak a little..and wow, magic
Sounds magnific, more air..
Them Barricade and sounds amazing
We will do a video when we can. Not this week though because I am travelling.
@cuscolima is correct though. This isn’t an app with a big range of sonic possibilities. It does only one thing: adjust the volume of the S channel on each of four frequency bands. It’s more of a tool for getting a specific job done than a sonic playground.
@Blue_Mangoo
Been messing around recently with stereofields on my premasters.
The vectorscope graph shows very little on tracks that are not mastered with active limiter values reaching standard LUFS.
It comes to life only when the track is loud enough which is not the case before mastering.
So I would realy love some kind of gain knob to "exclusively" amplify the vectorscope graph. Would you encourage this feature?
If not, I am still very happy with your great stereo width app!
Kind regards,
Bob