Mono it is. Couldn't be more so. Indelible. Etched in the digital
media forever. Honest.
Mono =E1 Mono. No kidding. Nothing on earth has yet been discovered to
extract even the tiniest amt of data from what should have been a
robust and convincing Side channel. A sad day for nature recordists =AD
especially this one. Embarrassing for me, who even badly sighted
should have heard (if I had been listening critically) the
differences but didn't catch it for a whole month on site in an
effort to save precious batteries by avoiding playback.
Luckily, I've been to various parts of Africa many times and have
lots of good stuff, well recorded and archived. It's just that one
glitch...
BK
>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.
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>--- 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.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >
>> >"Microphones are not ears,
>> >Loudspeakers are not birds,
>> >A listening room is not nature."
>> >Klas Strandberg
>> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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>> P. O. Box 536
>> Glen Ellen, CA 95442
>> 707-996-6677 tel
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>>
>> http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
707-996-6677 tel
707-996-0280 FAX
http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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