How to use a STEREO WIDENER plugin on metal guitars - tutorial

Learn how to create wider guitars in a metal mix in this tutorial.

Joel shows a few different wants to create wider guitars: using a widener plugin such as Waves S1 Stereo Imager or JST Sidewinder and doing it manually by duplicating and shifting the phase. And a little bonus EQ trick :)

This tutorial uses Cubase, but the same method will work in any DAW - just look up how to time shift your tracks as Joel does with slip editing.

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