In podcast production it’s very rare that you would want to adjust the stereo imaging of some stereo music, but in case you ever want or need to make stereo music wider or more narrow, then you would use a stereo imaging enhancer.
Here are two:
Ozone Imager — This processor is part of Ozone mastering suite and I’ve used it before a few times. It’s a multiband stereo image enhancer and it’s pretty cool.
Waves S1 Stereo Imager — I’ve never used this one before.
Have you ever used a stereo imaging plugin before? Which one(s)?
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I get the use of this is subjective. Personally I think it should be applied with caution due the attributes of lossy codecs and subsequent program distribution. I doubt this type of enhancement would hold up very well sonically – especially if the distribution master exhibits a low encoded data rate.
-paul.
@produceNewMedia