Issue with Transient Shaper + M/S processing technique
Posted: 24 Feb 2018
Alright guys, I will try to explain this the best I can:
Like many of you, probably, I too like doing mid/side processing on my master channel... There is a technique which involves reducing the transients to the side channel, however in practice, I can't seem to get it to work on Reason without negatively affecting the stereo width.
I use the Red Rock sound's RE 181 and do lots of multiband processing aided by Elements Splitter RE, and then use line mixers to mix them back before going back to RE 181, and it i in this step (between the mixer and RE181) that I have been trying to insert a transient shaper (Tried first with Neutron, and then with Kong, they are the only two devices I have that come with a transient shaper). There is where things go wrong for me, because, yes, the transients on the side channel get reduced, dope, but the stereo width is nothing like it was before...
Am I doing something wrong? Should I use different tools? I just tried with synchronous, however that is very limited and wouldn't catch the transients of things happening in the offbeat if I used the pumping effects in it and yeah, that is cool, but that is not what I was aiming for?
Thanks for reading!
Like many of you, probably, I too like doing mid/side processing on my master channel... There is a technique which involves reducing the transients to the side channel, however in practice, I can't seem to get it to work on Reason without negatively affecting the stereo width.
I use the Red Rock sound's RE 181 and do lots of multiband processing aided by Elements Splitter RE, and then use line mixers to mix them back before going back to RE 181, and it i in this step (between the mixer and RE181) that I have been trying to insert a transient shaper (Tried first with Neutron, and then with Kong, they are the only two devices I have that come with a transient shaper). There is where things go wrong for me, because, yes, the transients on the side channel get reduced, dope, but the stereo width is nothing like it was before...
Am I doing something wrong? Should I use different tools? I just tried with synchronous, however that is very limited and wouldn't catch the transients of things happening in the offbeat if I used the pumping effects in it and yeah, that is cool, but that is not what I was aiming for?
Thanks for reading!
