[Ben Jenssen]

One of the easiest ways is to use an aux track with a short stereo delay on it.

Pan the audio track, and pan the send to the delay to the other side. Very efficient and can give a very wide image even with very low level on the delay.

I do this also with reverb, but you must use two mono aux tracks with mono reverbs on them for it to work. (Most reverbs dont care if you pan the send.)

I too, find that Waves S1 very quickly destroys the focus and punch. No wonder, we’re talking about fiddling with phase.