NAMM 2021: Nugen Stereoizer Elements announced Published 19/1/21 Nugen Audio, the Leeds, UK-based plug-in team behind the unique Paragon reverb, are due to release a cut-down version of their Stereoizer psychoacoustic processor. The new Stereoizer Elements employs all the same stereo trickery as the original, but combines multiple parameters into one user-friendly slider. So, when you increase or decrease the width in Stereoizer Elements, you're actually performing a number of actions simultaneously. There's a simple Mid-Sides matrix under the hood, as you might expect, but added to that are algorithms that Nugen call Interaural Time Difference (ITD) and Interaural Intensity Difference (IID). ITD takes advantage of time-of-arrival differences between the left and right channels to manipulate the listener's sense of sound localisation. It's akin to moving the mics in a spaced stereo array nearer or farther apart, but the processing is apparently much more involved than simply adding Haas delays, and is also said to be completely mono compatible.