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  1. Firstly, this is my opinion and very much not that of my business etc etc. It's also based on my analysis and hunches, so you'll find quite a bit of 'original research' here. Lion and ML are Apple's new way to do planned obsolescence. There's absolutely no way that an integrated GPU cannot process 3 multimeters, for example, as most don't know this, but an Intel HD 4000 is significantly faster than a GT120 (see: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GT+120) due to the 120 meaning to be a HD 2000 beater. I would say the Mac Pro 1,1 was fast enough to do 10 multimeters at once, in fact this is the first time I've ever heard someone try to say that a card is incapable of doing any kind of 2D graphics in this decade. It's not true, plain and simple. What is true is that Apple have reached a level where the majority of it's common consumers will not benefit from more power and therefore will feel no reason to upgrade (other than feeling cool about new toys). The only way around it is to make them feel the benefits, and the easiest way to do that is to bloat their code into making their software feel just a little sluggish. Sluggish enough to justify that shiny new MBP they've been eyeing up. They've done it with the iPod an massive amount of times on the hardware front, allowing for parts designed to fail weeks after warranty. That's why yearly refreshes come out. You're stuff breaks and theres a new one that's conveniently just come out. Anyway. I digress, I think the bloating of Lion was meant to kill off a generation of Macs and they overdid it just a little, hence ML's slight speed boost.
  2. That's a bit of a blanket statement to be giving. Theres LOTS of records out there with stereo panned vocals, spread vocals, hard-panned vocals and imaging effected stuff. I have used both of the above plugins to spread before, although I do end up using Waves Doubler a lot of the time. The sticking pont for me is energy. If you need a really high energy vocal on an EDM or Hip Hop record and you're not stacking tracks for whatever reason (often for me I get sent remixes that don't quite have the energy I want). Fake Imaging and good compression can make it sound huge and really get you that sound that you want. @OP I don't know if you are doing it, but there's been no mention of how you're using the controls on these plugins. I say this becasue you really can't just drop the stereo spread on stuff, you have to be delicate, and A/B everything you do on headphones because the panner has a very big habit of sounding completely different on those. FYI stereo spread is a big no-no below about 300hz, and sounds sweet if you bunch up the bands in either the midrange or the top end. Compression technically shouldn't make a difference if it's before or after, but reality has taught me that it does so shift it up and down your effect stack and see where it sounds best. YMMV but don't dismiss the plug-in Good Luck.
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