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Increase the stereo effect?
Is there any way to increase the stereo effects from left/right channels? In other words I would like to exaggerate the difference between the channels.
Thanks in advance
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2 Replies
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2 questions for you.
Why do you want to do it?
How was the audio recorded?
Grazie
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There are stereo wideners made by waves, PSP, and several other FX plug in companies. If you need to do it manually, if you have an actual mono wave file and Sound Forge, take it and select the Simple Delay effect, than you highlight one of the channels (left or right) and process it. It slightly delays that one channel and makes it sound more “stereo.”
If you totally need to do it more manually, duplicate the track in Vegas, than right click the first track and select “channels” and pick left. Now do the same for the duplicated track and instead of the left channel, select the right.
Use the panning control for each track and make one hard left one hard right. This now allows you to adjust each independently. Now be sure you have “ignore event grouping” clicked and EVER SO SLIGHTLY AND SLOWLY pick one of the tracks and move it ahead of the other, use your ear to adjust the effect. If you go to far, you will start to hear an “echo” if you will. If you can keep it within a few milliseconds (up to about 10-20, the ear does not perceive this as delay but a form of reverb. This creates as effect of mics picking up the signal at slightly different times for each side, much like it real life as our ears do.
If you need to get more than you can, try compressing each side slightly different or EQ them slightly different as well….Good luck!!Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions
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