How to make a single instrument fill up a sound spectrum?
I have an instrumental here (not particularly a fan of, but great reference for this question.)
This instrumental starts off with and contains a synth pluck with a simple melody. My interest in this synth pluck is how a single sound can fill out the sound spectrum all by itself.
What is the process behind achieving this in mixing? I suspect its a reverb with a long decay but i could be completely wrong.
How is it done?
Thank you!
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From the comments you seem to be asking not about the frequency spectrum, but about the stereo field.
Yes, this is probably done by adding pseudo-stereo information using a 'stereo reverb' plugin.
It conceivably COULD have been achieved by recording the (marimba?) sound in a very reverberant room with stereo microphones, but I suspect it's a dry sample with artificial reverb applied.
From my answer to your stereo reverb question
It's worth noting that (mono-in stereo-out) stereo reverb is one way
to artificially create a stereo field from a mono input. Other
stereoization methods include comb filtering with a delay on one of
the stereo channels, complementary comb-shaped EQ curves for
left/right, and special stereo chorus effects.
Here's an example of how to widen a sound with Ableton's stock chorus and reverb:
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