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Using short delay to stereoize guitars

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Using short delay to stereoize guitars

- [Voiceover] One of the simplest tricks, and oldest tricks in the book, is to stereoize, so to speak, a guitar track or such by applying a short delay, panning the original signal to one side, the delay to the other, 100% wet. And getting kind of a stereo spread of the instrument. I'll show you really quick how to do that. And we're gonna talk about some of the details involved, too. Here we have a guitar on the chorus of this song. So, right now obviously it's panned in the center, and it's mono. We're hearing it right in the center. And we wanna spread it out, make it wide. The way I like to do it is to duplicate the track. Boom. And then we'll pan these left and right. Now, of course, we kind of have the same thing. We're gonna have a guitar in the center. Right? Because there's two pan two different ways. And what I'm gonna do real quickly here is add a quick plugin delay. Right here mild delay three. You need to do a really short delay to make this work. Like, right now, it's at…

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