size 36 MB  / 27 MB

• Widen or narrow the stereo field.
• Convert mono sound to stereo (state of the art method, with no delay and no sound coloration)
• Bass focus parameter, to increase the stereo widening while keeping the low frequencies mono.
• Pan, out gain, and mono output parameters.
• Five display modes (polar samples, Lissajous…)
• Correlation meter, to check mono compatibility when increasing the stereo width.

bluelab-plugs.com/

BL-StereoWidth-v5.3.1-win  (  MB )

BL-StereoWidth-v5.3.1-mac  (  MB )

size 3 MB  / 6 MB  / 7 MB

Phantom Center is a stereo imager plugin that works by extracting the phantom center from a stereo signal.

Contrary to your usual mid/side processor, the sides components tend here to be decorrelated (with mid/side they would be negatively correlated). For example, hard panned signals don’t leak into the center or into the other side.

The HPF and LPF parameters control the cutoff frequencies of the filters applied to the extracted phantom center. What’s outside this frequency range is redirected to the side channels.

It’s also possible to get separated LCR channels if you want to process them individually (see the user guide). Note that the extraction algorithm is more on the aggressive side and wasn’t specifically designed for “upmixing”. However, just splitting and recombining is lossless.

www.bertomaudio.com/

Bertom_PhantomCenter_WIN  ( 3 MB )

Bertom_PhantomCenter_MAC  ( 6.4 MB )

Bertom_PhantomCenter_GNU-LINUX  ( 7.4 MB )

Arx One is a stereo imager.
Mono compatibility is not important only for situations when you music is played on mono system but it is also important for stereo speakers. Perfect stereo field for loudspeakers doesn’t exists. There is a zone that lies at a certain distance and angle to the speakers that are kind of ideal but speakers are not headphones where the sound goes directly to your ears. With speakers there is always some audio summing and you’re basically hearing it in collapsed mono. Add you head movement and rotation to it and effect is even bigger. We also should not forget systems with subwoofer where signal for it is always in mono.
Any element in your mix that have left and right channels significantly out of phase will be played on significant lover volume level or in worst scenario when the channels are completely out of phase, that element may completely vanish when summed in mono. Out of phase audio also introduce phasing/combing effect that doesn’t sound very nice.
Arx One is tool to help you with correcting those issues. It split signal to four frequency bands that can be adjusted individually. You can adjust panning for each split and choose source channel to use for output. Thanks to this individual band panning Arx can also create stereo from mono source.
It split signal to four frequency bands that can be adjusted individually. You can adjust panning for each split and choose source channel to use for output. There are a lot of problems regarding phase correlation in mixing especially when layering different sounds that can cause problems so as result they may cancel each other.
But what if you even do not start any layering or mixing different instrument and you just placed and played one instrument and yet there are already phasing issues especially with ensembles. Many developers do not fix they samples or they want to trick your wallet by that huge & wide sound. No matter what is the reason behind you want to fix it somehow.
Arx is mean to tame the sound and normalize stereo width. If you are making music just for headphones (binaural) listening then forget about Arx. If you want to have mono compatible mix then Arx could be the tool for you.

• 4 adjustable frequency bands.
• Left, Right or Stereo for input for each band.
• Solo preview for each band.
• Rotate audio.
• Dual master pan, left and right channel can be panned individually.
• Dual master do not pan low frequencies, so no matter what your bass will be always mono.
• Bypass processing for comparing with original sound (push X on ARX logo).
• Phase trace to preview phase correlation in time.

arx_one_x64  ( 7 MB )

arx_one  ( 5 MB )

size 1 MB

Decentralized is a stereo imager.

It is the result of an experiment done with some strange mid/side routing mixed with signal comparison and cancellation. The result was surprisingly pleasant when use properly on either independent channels or even an entire mix. The stereo image is widened, but no delay is being used.

It’s more than just boosting the side mix, it can also create the effect of having no central point of sound when used properly.

https://bassgnomes.wordpress.com/

Decentralized  ( 1.2 MB )