I guess the only thing to do is to fly back to Africa and record mono
again, this time with a figure-8 mic to get the side information
you're missing. :P
Can you upload a WAV sample (1 - 2 minutes) of what you've got?
Include both channels, unless you are 110% sure it's 2 channels of the
same mono.
--- In Wild Sanctuary <>
wrote:
> Nada, Ken. What we've got is 2-trk mono. Each year older I get, the
> nightmares about this month-long session get worse. Last night, there
> was a polar bear in my bedroom.
>
> Bernie
>
> >If I understand correctly, due to a connection problem, all you ended
> >up with is a mono recording?
> >
> >First are you 100% sure that you have a mono track? If you just one
> >channel recorded, the other blank, then yeah it's mono. If you got
> >two tracks, are they 100% identical? EG if you invert one channel and
> >sum the two channels do they cancel out to nothing? If there's a
> >little true ambience left, there may be a way to pump up the
> >separation.
> >
> >From all your experiments, if they didn't work, i don't think you
> >will find any purely synthetic way of making this one track into
> >believable stereo.
> >
> >Maybe you have a good stereo recording of ambience in the same
> >location that could be mixed in to give the "mono" one a little life?
> >
> >
> >
> >--- In Wild Sanctuary <>
> >wrote:
> >> Anyone on the list know of a really convincing stereo synthesizer?
> >> Long ago and far away on a recording trip to Africa, I used a MS
> >> pre-amp in the field with which I was unfamiliar. The mics were
> >> plugged in wrong (because I don't see very well and lost my glasses
> >> and wasn't otherwise paying attention) and all I came up with was a
> >> decent mono track. I've tried a number of systems to create a sense
> >> of space (everything from offsetting tracks to the Orban to the
> >> Quadraverb system and different combinations of all of them) but to
> >> no satisfactory end.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Microphones are not ears,
> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
> >A listening room is not nature."
> >Klas Strandberg
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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