Channel Tools

[Treblecock Studio]

Tell me your stories about how you utilize this great and timeless effect. I use it to beef up and spread acoustic tracks and tell clients it's magic ?

[Starship Krupa]

Unfortunately for your thread, before I got Channel Tools I already had Eventide UltraChannel, which does that harmonized microdelay pretty dang well (no surprise considering that it was pioneered using Eventide hardware).

Channel Tools has some nice features, but they're ones that I'd already gotten used to using other plug-ins for.

[Lord Tim]

Channel Tools is super handy - I use it either for spreading things out (although I tend to prefer Waves S1 for that), but it's also great for narrowing the stereo image (say you got a live drum mix and the overheads were panned hard right and left and recorded as a stereo track, but it feels like it needs to be a little more intimate - it's easy to drag the width in), or swapping channels, or purposely screwing with phase alignment... Like Erik says, there's probably better tools for certain tasks out there, but this is built in and does the job just fine in lieu of having them.