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Re: Digital stereo synth

Subject: Re: Digital stereo synth
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:16:33 -0800
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?
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>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.
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>>  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
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