Creating True Stereo in FCP

[Benjamin Howard]

Just to follow up, I just tried out offsetting one of two duplicate mono tracks by 10ms and it sounds pretty great (at least comparatively). The depth of the sound is increased significantly although I’m sure any audio pros would laugh at this method. The only downside I’ve noticed is that if the stereo track is then downmixed to mono it sounds terrible like the sound is coming from a tunnel (which makes sense). As long as the tracks are coming from stereo speakers though it sounds fine.

To get a smaller delay than 1 frame I used the delay filter at 100% wet mix w/ a .01s delay time and 0 feedback.