Waves s1 replacement?

[Joshua Wickman]

Any cheap or free vst that are similar to this plugin?

Ive tried brainworks bx thing and also flux and neither sound good, so yea anything else besides those?

 

[Metaltastic]

What does S1 do?

 

[slashvanyoung]

It's for enhancing stereo images...

How about: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2336.html

 

[DominikJW]

Theres also MDA Imager, it doesn't have all the features that S1 has, but it's not bad for a free plugin.

http://mda.smartelectronix.com/

 

[stargazer7]

Sonalksis - Stereo Tools

http://www.sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=107

 

[Joshua Wickman]

What neat about waves is you can choose the freq and its a shuffler which is a bit different than most i believe. I might just have to buy It if there is no other similar plugins. Most wideners thin out the sound but waves S1 shuffler works great for me. It can leave a hole in the center if pushed to much but none the less works better than anything Ive found so far.

I was finally trying to save up for Uad plugin pack and card (been trying for years). This waves S1 plugin is 180.00 for the single plugin but at that rate i would rather just spend the extra and get the Silver bundle. Then Uad stuff would have to be put on hold once again! What to doooo.......:Smug:

 

[kev]

I've never been sure when to use a Stereo Imager. Are they worth it?

 

[Wolfeman]

What neat about waves is you can choose the freq and its a shuffler which is a bit different than most i believe. I might just have to buy It if there is no other similar plugins. Most wideners thin out the sound but waves S1 shuffler works great for me. It can leave a hole in the center if pushed to much but none the less works better than anything Ive found so far.

I was finally trying to save up for Uad plugin pack and card (been trying for years). This waves S1 plugin is 180.00 for the single plugin but at that rate i would rather just spend the extra and get the Silver bundle. Then Uad stuff would have to be put on hold once again! What to doooo.......:Smug:

Don't put off the UAD card, I bought a used one from James and it kicks ass...

 

[NickL]

The imager that comes with Izotope's Ozone is really kickass but I really don't like anything else that comes in that plugin haha. I think the Waves imager is cheaper anyway, but you might as well check it out. You might like the other things that are included that I don't really dig so much.

 

[ahjteam]

how about using just the stereo imager portition from gvst gmulti? put the compressor ratios to 1:1 and levels to 0.0dB and then just adjust the stereo image, cutoff frequencies and mix knob

 

[Joshua Wickman]

Don't put off the UAD card, I bought a used one from James and it kicks ass...

I know dude It was on my next thing to buy list! I was gonna swoop a uad 1 card first then a uad 2 card down the road.

 

[Aaron Smith]

I actually haven't used anything besides the S1, and I find that it kills the center too much, so if the others you've tried are worse, then they must really suck. Recently I messed with the S1 in the mastering chain, and even just going from 1.00 to 1.25 made a noticeable difference in the center. I basically set it, closed my eyes, clicked the "bypass" button a few times so quickly that I couldn't tell if it was on or off, then used my ears to decide. Within about five seconds I could tell that the center was lost in one of them, and it was with the S1 turned on...

The custom made analog stereo widener that someone mentioned recently in another thread (used my Mika Jussila) sounds intriguing, although I don't really know of any analog wideners out there, and I would still be a bit scared of it. Analog of course does not definitely mean that the center will be preserved better, it probably works in about the same way.