And of course, by putting in a slight time lag in one of the channels you
can use the "time of arrival" effect to pick what direction the sound seems
to originate from. (Start playing around with about a 5ms difference, as a
guess.) In addition, you can set the sound levels for the two channels to
be different as well. I find things sounds best when the volume differences
and timing differences are consistent in what they indicate about direction.
But you can easily mix multiple tracks with lots of different timing and
volume effects to produce remarkably complex and interesting passages!
While Cool Edit 2000 will let you do this, there's also free and shareware
programs with the same abilities (Audacity, for example, or even "Dora"). I
just mention this to indicate that one can experiment with these effects
without having to put up money to do it.
Cheers!
Steve P
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