Stereo Image?

[Oroz]

I was listening to my mixes and comparing them to profesional cd's and the pro's have better stereo image, what do you recommend me to have a better stereo image? what plug ins do you use for this?

[yOkO]

ozone 3 have couple nice mastering things though

[Andi R]

what does Stereo Image have to do with plugins?
is there a plugin that makes good recordings or what? haha!
it´s all about EQ, Pan and time!
think about it......

[Andi R]

by the way, listen to "Michael Landau - Tales from the Bulge"
This recording is all about stereo..... but also works in Mono!!! very great recording.

[yOkO]

hey, donde te ubicas?
yo estoy en la roma en el D.F.
que PT tienes?

[Oroz]

what does Stereo Image have to do with plugins?
is there a plugin that makes good recordings or what? haha!
it´s all about EQ, Pan and time!
think about it......

Well my recordings have the right EQ and hard panning settings and still don't have the stereo image of professional recordings, what can I do to improve this? Do I need a better clock? better converters?

[Oroz]

hey, donde te ubicas?
yo estoy en la roma en el D.F.
que PT tienes?

Saludos, mi nombre es Francisco Oroz pero todos mis camaradas me dicen Chucky jejeje, vivo en la Narvarte, acualmente trabajo con un M-Box y una Mac Mini.

[ajazzie]

Due to nobody helping here, there are several plugs around to help out, I sometimes use them to help widen the masters up a bit but becareful as they can be damaging also.

Waves S1 imager or Shuffler are what I use.

Hope to help.

AJ

[phanatik]

I second Waves S1. Its what I usually put 1st in master track plug list.

[Bobbers]

when you say: "hard panning settings" ..do you mean all the way to the left and all the way to right and the something in the middle ?

I (almost) never pan hard right, hard left.
Try to pan it differently. Pan something at 10 o'clock and then pan something a 13 o'clock. Left and Right don't have to be a mirror of each other.
Also listen to your track in mono and try to change the pans.
I use PAZ from waves to visualize my image, but even if the image show one side more "full" than the other, it stays that way if it sounds good! but if its a dance track ill probably wont pan the kick hard left

Hope it gave you some ideas