In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Waves, we show you a super simple way of broadening the presentation of your backing vocal arrangements using Waves S1 Stereo Imager.

Backing vocals often get lost in the mix, an easy way to represent them without increasing the volume is to spread them into the edges of the stereo field. In this example we’ve got 4 backing vocals, bused to a sub mix, two of which are panned hard left and right. These sound reasonable enough but they could do we some extra stereo reach to sit better in the mix. This is easily achieved with the S1’s Width control.

For more information on Waves S1 Stereo imager visit the Waves website.