How to Use Mid/Side Processing

Looking for a full, wide sounding mix beyond panning and automation techniques? Follow along as Sam Loose defines what mid/side processing is and how you can use it in Ozone to enhance your mix or master, including de-essing with mid/side EQ, increasing vocal presence, compressing transient elements, and widening your mix.

Learn even more about mastering in iZotope’s ‘Are You Listening?’ Video Series:

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:29 What is mid/side processing?
1:47 Mid/side and the power of multiband
3:51 Adding width through the mids with mid/side
5:31 When not to use mid/side processing
6:33 Mid/side vocal presence
9:12 Surgical side processing
10:38 Recap

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[richardmillingtonmusic]

This is the clearest presentation of mid/side processing I've seen. Thanks Sam!

[melchisedekj]

This guy must be a huge deal! I've seen him work with both isotope and native instruments. I'm definitely going to look him up later.

[davidbasscooper]

this guy is so slick. very knowledgeable and very clear. great video

[TheGuitarGeek]

Sam - I learned exactly what i needed to here. Thanks

[failsaferecords]

Really like your style of delivery. More from this man please.

[oscarpatxot]

First time watching this guy, really nice presentation and amazing examples. The hit hat one was amazing, totally controlled it

[simclimie]

Thank you Sir
These techniques already made a phenomenal impact for me

[anantwashere]

Thank you. I was searching for this on the website.

[VentureNW]

This helped. Thank you. You will now need to update your Unmask video, with the new Neutron 4.

[garyshore]

Hey much thx for this...been checking out different M/S tutorials over here, best I've found today...way to get into M/S in a mixing context, just about everything else has been on using it in mastering instead...looking forward to checking out more of your videos man....

[lilfigurative]

thank you for teaching me how to use Jack Harlow/Side processing🙏🙏

[Treez]

Also I would recommend a hardware Mid/side processor like the SPL M/S Master 🔥 it will make that 5% translate to 75% of ur musics/beats quality.. get louder and more dynamic so u don’t have a flat loud sounding mix..

[WavE-Ub]

i think i found abug in this eq as it eq stereo the same as when i click left or right it makes it makes the stero eq the same on left and the side eq the same on right. wth is going on am i missing something??

[cobusprinsloo]

I am trying to understand the difference Side and L & R ?

[adammusic]

Is there an eq freeze function in the izotope eq like in fabfilter so you can pull down peak nodes from a frozen spectrum view?

[itshuskai]

With the snare mid side compression, why wouldn't you just EQ down the frequencies in the snare instead of using the mid-side processing, just asking because I feel like the CPU compensation would be crazy if you were processing everything in that degree.

[MemphianSounds]

Can I solo just mid? I only want the middle of my stereo image as the track

[ZooDinghy]

Interesting. I thought it would make it sound wider. But it doesnt sound wide on my Beyerdynamics headphones at all. Just different.

[solarj]

6:02 are you sure about the statement "if you process the side channel you are going to process everything that is panned left or right"? side = L - R that means that the side channel is not about panning but just about THE DIFFERENCE between the left and right. It's a very different statement in my understanding. A simple example is if you duplicate a mono signal and pan one copy hard left and one copy hard right. You are not going to process "everything that is panned right or left" because L - R = 0 so you are not processing anything at all 😅

[rojoratatatata]

0:03 Seth Rogan really thought he could just wear a wig and fool us