How do you create a stereo effect for one of Madlibs synth parts?
Dave Cooley: We did that in the song “Greenery.” One way is to use a really short delay — say, between 9 and 25 ms — with only one repeat, and then you pan it to the opposite side of the original. Your ears naturally hear the soonest sound louder than the one that comes after it, so you have to boost up the delay just a hair louder than the original; then, they’ll sound like stereo. You have to be careful, though, because they can cancel each other out in mono. Remix: What if you want to boost up a snare sound that’s embedded in a sample? Dave Cooley: Madlib works a lot from mono loops, so this is a challenge. There are a couple of steps to getting a stereo reverb on the snare. First, make two copies of the track. On one of them, boost the midrange where the snare is, but don’t assign an output for that track. Just send it out as a bus or assign it to an aux send — it’s not a track you’re actually going to listen to; you’re going to use it to key a gate. Then, you put a gate on the sec
