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Creating wider sounds through reamping

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Creating wider sounds through reamping

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- [Instructor] I get a lot of tracks of mix these days that originate from virtual instruments, and many of them are pads, drone-y, synth-y, string-like parts, that sometimes hover in the background of a mix. Others, as well, are distinct keyboard parts but have a little bit of stereo width but not too much. In order to make these kinds of tracks fit into a mix, I've come up with ways of re-amping them to add depth and width. In this case, I piped them out through the extra studio monitors in my live room and split the speakers far apart with a stereo pair of mics in between to capture the sound. Here's the original direct virtual instrument sound. There's a little bit of stereo modulation that moves some of the imaging back and forth but not very much. (monotone synthesizer music) Now here's the sound picked up by the mics off the monitors. Note that the higher harmonic in the sound to louder, some overtones developed,…

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