How Do I - Narrow stereo field in Vegas Pro.

[kelhard]

Hello.

I have a guitar track that I recorded in stereo to a stereo track in Sony Vegas.
I want to "narrow" the stereo field of that track, to give it less separation and a little more OOMPH.

I could take each channel and convert it to its own track (and I could've done that during recording) but there should be a plugin or a way to simply narrow the stereo field.

Any thoughts or suggestions??

 

[kelhard]

Jeez......no one's able to help?? :-(

 

[miroslav]

I use Vegas for video...I don't recall seeing any plugs for messing with the stereo image.

But you can do what you want by simply creating a Mid-Side decoding matrix in your DAW...and that will allow you to control the stereo image.

Here are the steps that I copied the from an Electronic Musician web page (to lazy to type it all out ). Read the whole M/S article here:
http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_front_center/

Begin by making two copies of the original left/right mix. Duplicate them onto four mono tracks on a DAW or split them to four channels on the console.

Pan the left/right tracks from one copy of the mix to the center. If you like, send them to a mono subgroup in order to control them with one fader. That will become your mid, or sum, channel.

Next, pan the tracks from the other copy of the mix to the center, and reverse the polarity of the right channel. Send them to a mono subgroup, too, if you like. That will become your side, or difference, channel.

Now you have independent mid and side channels from a left/right mix, which can be balanced and processed independently. Because you'll want to listen in left/right stereo, take the mid and side channels and decode them as if they were M-S mics.

What you've done is add the two left/right channels together to make a mono signal that creates the mid channel. The side channel was also created by adding the left/right channels together. When the polarity of one of the channels is reversed, however, any sound that was common to both gets canceled.