Just when I thought that AirWindows had already released the peak of what it could possibly do... this bad boy gets busted out. You hit the nail on the head... very precisely and without causing further brain damage.



I'll be using this in my mastering work, for sure. Thank you, so much, Chris. Literally... CAN NOT WAIT... FOR BASS KIT!!!



It would be nice to know where the crossover is, from 0 to 1. Any info on that?



I do have a random question (as always), but I think the community can tackle this unless Chris wants to add his own answer:



In what situations would it be better to keep the bass in stereo, but push it to the mids only (rather than MONO-ize it)? What is the difference? Perhaps, for mastered tracks that are for playback in clubs or high fidelity speaker systems... not 100% mids is good in many cases...



Well, I kind of have my own answer, in many ways... but I am interested in what the experts would say. I can see, for example, orchestral and symphony types of sounds being full with bass that is in full stereo (I think they stick the big bassy drums off to the left, in many cases)... and then different variations of such types of sounds, pushing the bass more towards having 0% stereo width (but still in stereo). I don't know if my ears can tell the difference... but I do know that if I use tools to push bass to MONO, and then "solo" the mids on plugins that follow it, then my ears seem to tell me that the mono-ized bass is in the mids only.



This curiosity leads me to wonder if airwindows will bust out a version of this tool that is pushing bassy stuff towards the mids, but straying away from pushing them into MONO.



Some one explained the difference between MONO and mids-only stereo, but for some reason it shoots right passed my learning disability... so if somebody could clear that up, I would appreciate it.



I also am not sure if Chris is talking about the bass being neatly transformed to MONO, or if in fact he means that it is being pushed towards the mids only (ie very close to 0% stereo width, below X Hz).



*EDIT* okay... after watching the video, I now understand that the information is in stereo. So, does that mean that the bass content is the mids-only, and not MONO? Sorry for the confusion.



I'll watch the video, but my last question is in regards to what frequency, in Hz, that it starts to push it down into MONO.



I'll edit this, as I learn more (possibly, or I will just keep on rambling until everybody hates my walls of text some more)!!



*EDIT* Hope you read this far, Chris... random request/idea time:



Slap something like UnBox onto this bad boy, but have the added harmonics roll off MUCH sooner (just to add even or odd 1st and maybe 2nd-ordered harmonics to the sub and bass content [separately]). It should have an option to make those harmonics centered or widened (ie, possibility to have wider harmonics from the sub bass, so the sub bass is "MONO-ized" [meaning almost completely mids-only] and the added harmonics can be pushed to full stereo width or remain the same narrow MONO-ish signal as the subs). Perhaps, a second harmonics section that adds to the bass (not subs) signal, as well (keep them separate). Something like this would possibly replace waves maxxbass, for me.



In this manner, one could reinforce their mastered track so that it sounds great on big speakers while also sounding nice and full on cheap headphones, laptop speakers, and cheap portable stereo devices... with the sub & bass harmonics being pushed out to a wider area, if set to do so.



Is that a no-go, like the other 99.99% of my ideas?



I am sure that I can create a chain to emulate this type of behavior... but only if the subs signal is still in stereo & has 0% stereo width (ie not MONO but sound is in the center).



Anybody got ideas on the best way to create a chain to do this in a DAW?