Raising Jake Studios has a genius plug on their hands. SideMinder is a stereo spreader with a twist: it detects correlation and if that correlation crosses the dreaded zero barrier then it automatically and temporarily brings the spreading in so that phase issues simply do not happen.
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Let me digress
There are a number of plugins that tell you that something is wrong. However, it is a rare plugin that then corrects that problem automagically even though it knows exactly how bad the problem is. If TonalBalance from iZotope can show you how much you are out of range in its four bands of EQ areas, then why on earth does it not contain a four-band EQ which automatically shoves your mix into supposed perfect compliance along with four knobs to tweak after it makes its adjustments to theoretical perfection?
Greener pastures
I wish I had a list of plugs that just immediately do what you are going to ask of them after insertion. TrackSpacer from WavesFactory does indeed immediately sidechain duck 32 bands of dynamic EQ once you link up the track you want to be dominant, and then allows you to tweak how much more or how much less, along with enabling you to high- and low-pass its area of effect. That shouldn’t be a rocket science mystery but instead be a no-brainer obvious feature. Every plugin that can detect and quantify a problem should also automatically solve that problem and empower you to adjust what it did to taste.
Let’s get on with this
SideMinder has two buttons, two knobs, a simple correlation meter, and a slider. This list is short enough to briefly describe what each control does:
Slider: Adjusts from complete mono to 200% Width. 100% is exactly what came in with no change. It is important to note that SideMinder does not create stereo from mono, so you need something else for that; still, if you have any side information then SideMinder can indeed narrow or further spread your audio (hint: pan some things). I said something important there: It can narrow your audio, not just spread it. Any stereo spreader that will not narrow down to mono is cutting you off from half of what is possible and in my mind should be avoided. Control of the stereo spread is the goal.
Consider a virtual piano that sounds like relative crap when narrowed down to mono. This is the hell of producing music in a nutshell. It sounds great on your stereo monitors or headphones but necessarily sounds like shit coming from a single speaker system. The agony is that the correlation is moving all over the place, the ecstasy is that we have a fix for that right here and now. What you want to do is mix into SideMinder at its default settings and get the sound you are after while phase issues are controlled.
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The buttons and knobs
The On/Off button of Sideminder toggles a “Width Limiter”. What that Width Limiter does is automatically bring in the spreading only when the dreaded zero barrier of correlation is crossed and the audio moves into phase cancellation hell. That phase cancellation is what ruins your virtual piano sound when moving to mono, and even in stereo it starts to sound weird as you cross that zero point and go beyond it. Make that piano sound good with SideMinder controlling the correlation and it will sound good in mono.
The release knob controls how Slow or Fast SideMinder returns to the desired Width you have set. For the life of me I can’t hear or see any difference between the Slowest and Fastest setting here, but I do have at least subjective control of this release. Apparently feelings matter in audio engineering.
The other knob is for center Frequency. The lowest you can go is 30 Hz, and the highest 300 Hz. Good numbers for deciding what frequencies remain dead center before any artificial spreading is applied.
The other button is labeled “Process”. It should instead be labeled “Bypass”. Yet another vendor chooses to ignore commonly accepted language conventions in order to confuse us. Push the red Process button to toggle bypass of the entire plug.
What is this for?
Obviously a stereo spreader is for increasing the sides to widen the stereo field. But SideMinder can also be used to narrow that field, or simply as a correlation limiter without spreading or narrowing at all. We use safety brick wall limiters to catch stray peaks. You can use SideMinder to catch moments of stray phase cancellation and for this reason alone it should be in everyone’s toolbox.
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Summary
It is rare that something so fundamentally needed and simple to use just pops up out of thin air and solves a huge swath of problems. Rookies infatuated with spreaders and experts paranoid about perfect mono compatibility both need this. SideMinder is the perfect answer to the perfect storm.
Pros
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To the best of my knowledge, SideMinder is unique as an automatic Correlation Limiter. It spreads or narrows the stereo field, and can leave a set low-end frequency range untouched. Dare I say it sounds damned good? Yes I do dare! All in all, for $24.95 USD I think you should just drop everything an go buy SideMinder, your mixes will thank you even if you never widen them. Phase cancellation is a real problem, and SideMinder is an elegant solution.
Cons
I complain about the labeling of the “Process” button which instead should be called “Bypass”. The mono frequency should range from 0 Hz up to the moon if you want, reasonable as up to 300 Hz actually is. I would like to be able to set when the Correlation Limiter engages, like once it hits .5 instead of zero. The interface itself could be prettier too.