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Important: For hygiene and software licensing reasons, some items are only eligible for our Money Back Guarantee if they are returned to us unused and sealed in the original packaging with all software still "unregistered." Details of exclusions are shown within the product descriptions. Products include:
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This table provides an overview of your statutory consumer rights, compared with our standard returns policy and optional extended money back guarantee and warranty.
| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 60 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Upgraded delivery charges refunded? | Standard costs only | Standard costs only | Standard costs only |
| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
The SSL Fusion Stereo Image Plug-in is a mid-side processing circuit that brings width depth and space to your sounds, instruments, vocals, and entire mix. Enjoy natural-sounding 3D enhancing capabilities with comprehensive fine-tuning options.
Modelled on a true analog mid-side processing circuit from the SSL Fusion Stereo outboard hardware processor, the Stereo Image plug-in brings analog width and grit to your signal. This true analog circuit utilises a technique that separates stereo signals into two channels: a sum (L+R) for centre sounds (Mid) and a difference signal (L-R) for the sounds on the left and right (Side) giving you full control to narrow or widen the stereo image using the Width control.
The unique and powerful space circuit is a frequency-dependent width control based on Stereo Shuffling, opening up a world of possibilities with interesting depth effects. Furthermore, enjoy a brand-new shuffle control for changing the frequency cut-off in the Space circuit, allowing you to add weight and presence or carve space in the stereo field.
Product Ref: 247856
The Fusion Stereo Image plug-in works in the mid-side domain. Essentially, mid-side processing is a way of encoding a stereo signal that splits the centre and width information into mid and side signals respectively. Once encoded, the width and focus of any stereo signal can be manipulated by altering the volume balance between the mid and side signals.
Mid-side processing is useful in music production because you want to ensure the clarity of your central focus. Thus, Fusion Stereo Image only processes the side signal with a technique called stereo shuffling. Stereo shuffling uses EQ to modify the side signal's lower frequencies, and in doing so balances the overall signal. By reducing low and low-mid frequencies, the centre signal becomes more focused. Alternatively, by increasing the lower frequencies, the centre signal becomes wides and more diffused.
Take hands-on control of Fusion's stereo shuffling with Shuffle and Space controls. Shuffle and Space are, for all intents and purposes, frequency and cut/boost controls of an EQ band that gives you control over exactly how focused or diffused the resulting signal will be. More precisely, Space broadly boosts or cuts bass frequencies based on the stereo shuffling technique and Shuffle changes the cut-off frequency for the Space control.
Once the signal has been processed through Space and Shuffle, a Width control allows you to widen or narrow the stereo image by applying gain to the side signal. Finally, everything is encoded back into a standard left-right stereo signal.
To demonstrate the stereo image of your signal SSL has included a highly visual vector scope to graph out Shuffle, Space and Width. The central polar sample plot lets you visualise the stereo image of the incoming signal. As you adjust Shuffle, Space, and Width, you will see the signal become wider or more narrow. For advanced stereo plotting, samples appearing within the 45-degree lines indicate that they are in phase.
