Last night I spent a few hours listening to some of my favorite songs. So what, right? What was different was listening to it in Mid/Side, and muting the center. It’s really quite amazing what kind of sounds are buried in your favorite albums.
To do this you’ll need an M/S Decoder. I use the free Soundhack +Matrix from the freesound bundle.
On a stereo audio audio track, insert your M/S decoder, set it to L/R>M/S (which will convert Left and Right information to Mid and Side.
Then insert a Multi-Mono Trim plugin. Unlink the channels and mute the Left side.
Then insert another M/S decoder and convert the Mid + Side back into Left + Right.
Drop in a song and have fun!
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Try it with anything from Tool Ænima, the side is all room mics, extremely cool.
brainworks bx_solo would’ve been a lot easier to do this with
I didn’t think of that actually. I use BX solo a lot but usually to push pads super wide.
With two instances of +matrix (one decoding L-R to M-S and another doing the opposite) you can use any other plugins between for some MS fun.