While playing with the monitorizer, I think I've learned something

The Monitorizer is a Craig Anderton Creation in Fx Chain > Anderton Collection > Processors folder that is designed to help you hear in headphones what might be heard from a stereo.
 
Today, when I listened to this take 
http://stabilitynetwork.blob.core.windows.net/g-tunes/20160115_Geoff_Althea.mp3
in my car, it sounded pretty different. The synth sound wasn't nearly as pronounced as in headphones last night.
 
I tried to use Craig's tool to replicate it.
 
I LOVE that Craig let's me see all the FX and what the nobs control. So I open up the FX and take a look. Craig has the Channel Tools delay on and the delays linked. Left and right delays are to the exact same values. I tried to figure out if this did anything other than slow down what I heard. Did it change what I heard? I have to answer no. It is only a delay.
 
So then I got curious. Why can the delay be set to Pre or Post? What difference does that make?
 
I remembered this 2014 thread in which I talked about the mid/side gain for channel tools
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Question-on-Channel-Tools-L-and-R-Width-Controls-m3110227-p3.aspx
where I pointed out that basically, the effect is to phase flip the opposite tracks and raise them. So, you have a stereo track.... Reverse the stereo left to right and right to left and flip the phase, now raise the volume with the first. The result is to slowly quiet what's in the middle. If you use a Vector Audio Scope, the sound will slowly become completely out of phase.
 
So, this brought me back to the delay nobs. There is a Pre and Post. If you apply Pre delay to one side and not the other, when you go to adjust the Mid/Side gain, The stereo signals no longer lie directly on top of each other, so they don't cancel in exactly the same way.
 
I played with adding 2 channel tools plugins to the same bounced mix. I set the pre delay toggle and increased the delay on one channel. Then on the second plugin, I reversed that delay. Then on the first delay, I played with the mid-side gain. As would be expected, the cancelling was now strange and different.
 
Pretty cool, huh? The reason for the things makes more sense to me now.
 
 
 

You are well on your way to Jedi Monitorizer status.