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Tricks to Widen Claps – Mixing Claps

By Freddie HarbMarch 04, 20211 min read
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In this video Freddie from Distinct Mastering goes over a trick to widen your claps with the Waves Doubler 2. Creating space and allowing things to sit in interesting ways gives the listener more emotion. In dance music sometimes claps can be used to enhance the width of your drums in a creative way.

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00:32 Widen Claps
02:54 Outro

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  1. Widen Claps – Freddie goes over how to use the Waves Doubler 2 to widen your claps with the Haas effect.

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