NUGEN Audio - Stereoizer

Stereoizer is NUGEN Audio's stereo width plugin, with one big difference from most wideners: your mix still sounds right in mono. It adds natural width and depth to mono or stereo sources without reverb, chorusing or delay tricks, from a subtle lift to properly super-wide.

Width the way your ears hear it

Most cheap wideners lean on short delays or chorus, which sounds big until someone plays the track on a phone and half the part disappears. Stereoizer works from how we actually localise sound. IID (Interaural Intensity Difference) uses level differences, ITD (Interaural Time Difference) uses tiny timing differences, and Linear Width handles the conventional mid/side spread. Each is band-limited, so you can widen the mids and top while leaving the low end alone, and the three can be blended.

The sound

Pads and synths open out without going phasey, a mono piano or vocal double gets a believable stereo image, and a crowded mix gains a bit of space in the centre for the lead. Push it hard and it gets dramatic, but it stays solid when collapsed to mono, which is the whole point.

Where it fits

On synths, pads, backing vocals, guitars and stereo buses, and gently on the master. Pair it with Monofilter to keep the bass centred while the top end spreads. Bang for buck if you mix anything that has to survive club systems and phone speakers alike.

Features

• Three width algorithms: IID, ITD and Linear Width
• Mono to stereo, stereo to super-wide
• Band-limited processing for frequency-specific width
• Highly mono compatible, with a collapse-to-mono check
• No artificial reverb, chorusing or delay
• Stereo frequency analysis from 20 Hz to 22 kHz
• Dynamic visual feedback and presets

System requirements

• Mac: macOS 10.9 or later (64-bit)
• Windows: Windows 7 or later (64-bit)
• AAX, VST3 and AU (Mac only), plus AudioSuite

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