Hello Composers, Mike here. Are you looking for a simple stereo widening VST plugin that can add width and depth to your music?

iZotope Ozone Imager is a completely free VST plugin, and it works really well! =)

There are many stereo imager plugins out there, but I personally only use plugins that truly enhance the final sound.

If you are a perfectionist like me when it comes to good audio, you will be glad to know that the Ozone Imager is one of the best ones I’ve heard out there.

And it does its magic while also being super quick and easy to use. Perfect! =)

It has even been endorsed by Alan Meyerson. Scoring Mixer for The Dark Knight, Gladiator etc. I will quote him: “Imaging control is one of the big bonuses of the digital signal processing world. No plug-in does it better than Ozone.”

Visual Stereo Overview

With Ozone Imager you will get immediate and intuitive feedback as you adjust settings. You get both a Vectorscope as well as a Correlation Meter, witch visual feedback to help guide your mixing and mastering decisions.

Wide or Narrow?

You can of course choose to go in the opposite direction, and reduce the stereo width on particular sounds. Don’t forget that depth comes from contrast.

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Some sounds should be more in the centre of the stereo field, while others should be more spread out to widen the field.

For example: I personally like to use the Ozone Imager plugin on my different group bus tracks. /image-line-plugins-pack-osx-au-vst-64-32.html. This gives me control to decrease the stereo field on the bass group, increase it on the harmony group and so on.

Audio engineers really love this free plugin. Bxsolo contains a stepped M/S Stereo Width Control, so you can get a sense of how M/S technology can be used to expand the stereo width of tracks already recorded. Try it out on subgroups, FX returns, keyboards, or any stereo track that you’d like to spread out. Free bass stereo imaging Vst effect. It reduces the stereo width below the specified frequency. The low-frequency balance between the speakers. Set the threshold and the amount below that frequency to reduce the stereo image. Download GMonoBass. The best free VST plugins 2020: must-have freeware synths, drum machines and effects. By Si Truss (Computer Music. Stereo width and tonal qualities of the effect. Ozone Imager V2 is probably one of the best free VST plugins as it allows a music composer to have full control over the width of the sounds. The tool has three different vectorscope meters that instantly show the stereo width and help you widen or narrow the sounds precisely as per the project requirements. VSTplug stereo width by King Oz Records (@KVRAudio Product Listing): Stereo width has been done by so many companies, but rarely as nice sounding and as easy to work with as the VSTplug stereo width. Future versions will include the VSTplug stereo width, with no multi-band functionality. Changelog +v1.0: initial release. +v1.1: Acoustica 9 now supported. +v1.2: Acoustica support improved. This is Not a Stereo Widener. In fact, it’s the opposite. This plugin does not add anything that will increase the stereo width of your track. It will only reduce the stereo width. It ranges from -100% to +100%, letting you not only narrow your mixes, but to flip the L/R channels easily and smoothly.

I also like using it on the final stereo master bus, to add a touch of extra stereo depth to the final mix.

Simple Interface

You get two simple sliders. The first is the width control, which goes from -100 to 100. -100 is effectively making the sound completely mono, while 100 is doubling the stereo width on the sound you feed into it.

The stereoizer slider is where you can adjust the character of the stereo effect. It is very subtle, and you will probably find yourself focus far more on the stereo width slider which is where the main magic is.

Free Stereo Vst

My Final Thoughts

I would say that every music producer needs a good stereo widening plugin. And the Ozone Imager is one of the best I’ve used, both in terms of sound and ease of use. And all of this for free!?

Download Ozone Imager for Free here. And also get full specifications and learn more about it.

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If you use Wavosaur for mastering / premastering, or signal analysis in a more general way, you need tools for audio analysis : spectrum analyzers, phase analyzers, sonogram.
Wavosaur comes with analyzers, you’ll find them in the ‘tools’ menu, along with oscilloscopes & statistics about the sound file (maximum sample peak, RMS power, average value.).

But you can also use VST plugins (for some people it can be more convenient).
We have searched deep deep inside deep deep down inside into the web, to find the best free VST plugins for audio analysis, here’s the selection:

1) Spectrum Analysis

1.1) Voxengo SPAN

This spectrum analyzer uses FFT to display the signal frequency in real time.
You can freeze the display, and use the mouse to shows dB values / Frequency value
Frequency is displayed in Hz and in musical note.
The Voxengo SPAN analyzer also displays statistics : RMS power, and it features a clipping detection.

More info and download @ http://www.voxengo.com/product/span/
It is worth mentioning these plugins too, freeware!

/best-free-horn-vst.html. 1.2) Mdsp SmartElectronix Fre(a)koscope

Very nice, with interesting options for the spectrum display : linear/logarithmic/semitones .
Adjustable size for the FFT buffer. Had sometimes display problem with Wavosaur.
More info and download @ http://mdsp.smartelectronix.com/freakoscope/

1.3) BlueCat FreqAnalyst

Like the previous VST effect, this one can show spectrum of left / right channel or both, has a “hold peak” feature that is interesting, when dealing with EQ level in your mix.
More info & download @ http://www.bluecataudio.com/Products/Product_FreqAnalyst/

1.4) Seven phase Spectrum Analyzer

This one is freely resizable inside the host application (works in Wavosaur)
More info and download @ http://sevenphases.wordpress.com/spectrum-analyzer/

1.5) MultiInspector free

Download @ http://www.vertexdsp.com/downloads.html#MultiInspectorFree

2) Sonogram

2.1) ag-works sonogram sg-1

This free plugin displays a scrolling sonogram for frequency analysis.
You have the choice for the sonogram colors, and many options to tweak the sonogram displays
This is the only sonogram VST we have found for free ! Fortunaly it’s very good.
More info & download @ http://ag-works.net/plugins.sg1.htm

3) Goniometer

3.1) Flux Stereo Tool

When you need to visualize your stereo position, and the repartition in the field, this plugin is very useful. You can check for phase errors in your mixes.
download @ https://www.fluxhome.com/download

3.2) Gonio3

download @ http://www.uk-music.de/index.php?page=downloads

3.3) HOFA 4U Goniometer & Korrelator

download @ http://hofa-plugins.de/pages/start_en/4u_en.php

If you think that we have forget some free VST analyzer plugin in this list, do not hesitate to comment !

Edit:

We just have found this pretty nice analyzer somewhere on our harddisk :

Stereo Vst Plugin Free

Dust Analyzer:

It provides three modes : spectrum / scope / phase , with “hold peak” option, freeze option, dB/Freq display with mouse, linear / logarithmic scale

Stereo Width Plugin

more info & download @ KvR audio forum & http://www.signaldust.com/