Stereo Seperation

[Georgia_Boi]

How do you acheive this without vst plug-ins? Now before anybody tells me to pan, I noticed in commercial vocals when you extract the center channel, it leaves the only the background vocals and the music. Now when I pan in my daw,I don't acheive that effect, which I think is pretty cool. Are there any tricks to do this, or is it only done with eq?

[Yuno]

Wait, by "stereo separation" are you talking about mid/side processing in general or just getting the vocals to sit in the center? If it's the latter just record your vocals in mono and mix in stereo around them.

[Georgia_Boi]

I'm not completly sure what mid/side processing is.

[Yuno]

I wrote a pretty good explanation in this thread towards the 3rd page I think: Why should you even pan?

[BristolMusicTech]

one good trick is to hard pan a sound left and right on 2 different channels then delay one by 1-40ms or so.

the sounds are equal volume but due to the delay you hear one before the other, which gives a super wide effect.