This comes from Dirk Ulrich and the team at Brainworx. I reviewed their bx_Digital MS mastering EQ plug-in in the July 2007 issue of Sound on Sound. Now as part of their MS evangelism they have released bx_Solo, which is a simple free MS decoder plug-in. They have included their unique solo buttons in this ‘freebie’ that enable you to monitor any of the components of a stereo signal individually. They are Left, Right, Mono sum, and Difference and all are presented in phase and fed to both channels. So often when you solo the S component of an MS signal you hear it out of phase, which makes it more difficult to evaluate what is going on. bx_Solo also contains a stepped Stereo Width control which essentially is an S component gain control to increase the stereo width.
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This is an excellent MS decoder that also would enable you to experiment with MS processing as well as acting as an MS decoder when using MS micing techniques. Because you can put in LR and get out MS or put in MS and get out LR of the same decoder you could set up an MS processing chain by starting and finishing with one of these plug-ins and then using your favourite processing plug-ins in between. It would be best to use multi-mono plug-ins in between so that you can process the mono (M) and the (S) difference paths separately. This is of course how the bx_Digital plug-in from Brainworx has been designed and more and more mastering folk are using MS techniques and now you can too, for free, thanks to Dirk and the folks at Brainworx.
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